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Category Archives: Articles

Resolf - A game with numbers

When playing with numbers it is almost certain that you will discover properties and patterns that you didn't expect at…

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Rolf Doets June 26, 2020

The golden rule of staffing in contact centers

Remember hearing: 'Please hold while you are connected to the next available agent'? Why not spend some of the time…

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Mariska Heemskerk June 12, 2020

How parallel computing can be (in)efficient

You wake up in the morning, and reach out to your smartphone to cancel the alarm and check up on…

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Jan-Pieter Dorsman May 29, 2020

The eerie phenomenon of quantum entaglement

In this article, I will discuss the weird phenomenon called quantum entanglement, to which Albert Einstein referred as "spooky action…

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Farrokh Labib May 8, 2020

How the schedule in the TATA Steel Chess Championship forced Carlsen to help Caruana win

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Roel Lambers, Jesper Nederlof, Frits Spieksma April 27, 2020

The Mysterious R explained in simple terms

During the last three months the whole planet is caught in the turmoil of the Corona pandemic.

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Thom Castermans, Martijn Gösgens, Remco van der Hofstad, Nicos Starreveld April 18, 2020

Scale-free networks, a controversial topic solved by extreme mathematics

In 2016 a company calculated that the average number of followers in Twitter was about 707. Although this might already…

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Pim van der Hoorn April 3, 2020

How the popular become even more popular

Some webpages are enormously popular, and many thousands of other webpages link to them. Yet, most webpages have only few,…

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Remco van der Hofstad March 17, 2020

How uncertainty can make traffic run smoother

Making decisions that affect traffic can have an enormous impact on our daily lives, the environment and our economy. We…

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Jaap Storm March 6, 2020

Contest: How fast can you travel around the Netherlands?

The Netherlands is a small country, it has a total area of 33,893 square kilometers and is divided into twelve…

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Mark van der Boor, Jaap Storm February 22, 2020
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