Back to school!
Last month I was back in the classroom. But this time the kiddos in my class were quite younger than…
Category Archives: Algorithms
The Versatility of Reinforcement Learning
What does a working week, vacation, board games, football and faulty machines all have in common? In the not so…
Is it easier to find half a needle than a full needle in a random network?
Common sense tells us that objects of comparable size should be equally hard to find. Yet, when searching inside a…
Distributed consensus: What do money transactions and attacking armies have in common?
In February 2014, a big bank in the Netherlands suffered from an internet banking malfunction which led many costumers to…
Can algorithms learn to price collusively?
This is a question I have been thinking about for the last two years. In this article, I will give…
MO-together and not alone! How networks can help fundraising in the no-profit sector
Back in 2015, I joined the Movember health movement, a movement that you probably have heard of having something related…
Start to jet lag behind. Moving to fairer competitions.
It is the beginning of June 2018, when the Italian men's volleyball squad wins the first 3 matches of the…
What have Donald Trump, an epidemiologist and a rock in common?
IMAGINARY: The travelling salesman problem
Mathematics exhibition "IMAGINARY: beauty and power of mathematics" is from the 1st of October in Utrecht!
How do you decide who is the most important?
Imagine you’re in a remote village and only have a limited number of vaccines to distribute to protect the community…