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Reflection •  Academia

Attending A Refreshingly Well-Run Conference

I’ve always had an excitable, yet tentative outlook on academic conferences. Most conferences that I’ve attended over the past year and a half of my Masters in CompSci have represented (as they should)

Nic Durish 6 min read

Computer-science •  Academia

Encountering The R Programming Language In The Wild

If you’ve made it this far, you may have read the previous papers in this 6650(01) sega; Why the C Programming Language Deserves an F & A Scripture Reading - ‘The Humble Programmer’,

Nic Durish 14 min read

Computer-science •  Academia •  Review

'The Humble Programmer' by Edsger Dijsktra

It would be modest to call Edsger W. Dijkstra (May 1930 - August 2002) simply a programmer, computer scientist or software engineer. Dijkstra was; the father of structured programming, a visionary and a

Nic Durish 9 min read

Reflection •  Academia

Exploring the Needs of a Community-Based Monitoring System in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut

Much like my first trip in November, I arrived at the airport at 6:30 in Goose Bay, and sleepily loaded my bags and self into the 19-seater Twin Otter airplane1, headed to Rigolet,

Nic Durish 7 min read

Computer-science •  Academia •  Review

'Good Ideas Through The Looking Glass' by Niklaus Wirth

A spent a significantly larger portion of my time preparing for this assignment, than I did actually writing it. I read large sections of many of the papers and realized how difficult it

Nic Durish 9 min read
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