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Earlier this evening, while watching some TV I heard an airplane fly over. Because Haarlem relatively close to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, this happens more often. However, this time from the sound I knew that it was flying extremely low. Turns out that it was an aircraft from Royal Air Maroc that encountered a birdstrike after taking [...] Although I have my drivers license for some time already again, we never got around to purchasing a car. Especially when we were still living in Utrecht, this was not a viable option anyway, because parking the car in the same street was not possible due to lack of parking permit, and very long waiting [...] I found that sometimes it is difficult to find my thesis, though it is published online at the library of Utrecht University. For anybody interested in reading it, it can be found at the library website of Utrecht University. Of course, the contents of this thesis are nice, but a lot of people also like the [...] Has not been very busy on my weblog lately. Reason for this was that we went on a vacation to the US, and to be more precise to Florida. We decided to rent a car and just drive around to different places of interest, not really knowing beforehand what our exact route was going to be. [...] Today we went to the notary for all the official exchanging of property and after that we received our keys: Picture of the keys to our new house Also nice was the fact that the previous owners provided us with a small bottle of champagne So upcoming time will be a busy time of [...] In some weeks we will get the key to our house we recently bought and I thought this was a perfect opportunity to buy a small light-power computer that I can use in the new house as a server. Currently I have my desktop running 24/7 because it also works as a simple webserver and [...] When I was a PhD student I had to give some presentations. I think I tried once to use Powerpoint to give a presentation filled with mathematical equations before I decided that this was not going to work After some other packages, I finally found LaTeX-Beamer. For the majority of the presentations the default [...] Last weekend I went for a city trip to Dublin together with my wife. Of course we had to visit two things that Dublin is famous for: the Guiness brewery and the Jameson distillery At the Jameson distillery you have a guided tour that shows you the process of whiskey making. At the start [...] When following some different blogs about Operations Research the other day, I found the following very nice OR joke on the ThinkOR blog: At the end of his course on mathematical methods in optimization, the professor sternly looks at his students and says: “There is one final piece of advice I’m going to give you now: [...] Towards the end of my studies, I started to work in the field of Operations Research. After that, my PhD topic was also in the field of Operations Research. Currently I work for paragon, which is the developer of AIMMSÂ and as can be seen on the website of our company, we strive to enable people [...] |
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