Wanneer leren onze politici dat je het halen van harde doelen niet in wetgeving moet plaatsen? Dit kun je alleen doen wanneer je a) hard grip hebt op het behalen van doelen en b) dat je weet wat het gaat kosten om dit te halen (en dat dit betaalbaar is in relatie tot andere

Thread 🧵 On August 5th, the Lebanese government approved the decision to withdraw Hezbollah's weapons, and on August 7th, the government approved the American paper, also known as the Barrack paper. After these two decisions, Lebanon enters its most dangerous and complex turning

Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism. Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression. Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼

I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery! We’re looking for strong Research Scientists and Research Engineers to help us push the frontier of autonomously discovering novel artifacts such as new knowledge, capabilities, or algorithms, in an

Interview met mevrouw Kellermann van @PFZWnieuws in @PensioenPro enige tijd geleden https://t.co/JXAc0Qv2wi

Never before has an hour of Presidential rhetoric cost so many people so much. Markets continue to move after my previous tweet. The best estimate of the loss from tariff policy is now is closer to $30 trillion or $300,000 per family of four.

Niet terugslaan is het verstandigst als de Amerikanen tarieven afkondigen/verhogen. Schieten we onszelf mee in de voet, zoals Sandra Phlippen uitlegt.⬇️

to end up behind each other, but never causing two red cars to end up behind each other. A little further on, the cars have to wait at a traffic light. If you look at the first ten cars at the traffic light, how many possible colour combinations can occur? 2/2

Puzzle: On a 1-way road with 2 lanes, blue and red cars are driving. The left lane contains only blue cars, the right lane only red. At a point, the cars have to merge to one lane. In doing so, the blue cars are bolder than the red ones, sometimes causing several blue cars 1/2

How do you handle outliers caused by heavy tails in an optimal way when you want to estimate (but not overestimate) the mean of a nonnegative random variable? With Bart van Parys, we answer this question in our preprint https://t.co/2nluxnnCDi

It's Greek Independence Day today, congratulations indeed!

“He died at home, excited about a new math idea he’d just had, held in his wife’s arms.” For a mathematician there’s probably no better way to go. RIP. https://t.co/ImMaaIbPUD

Does anyone know whether there an open-source implementation of the holomorphic embedding method to solve the AC power flow equations? Preferably the version where you can provide a nontrivial starting value.

After 5 months of struggle I am staring at our beautiful upper bound. Am listening to Grigory Sokolov in the background. Outside, the sun is shining.

How far would you go to finally get a reaction from an editor after inquiring multiple times about a paper status (submitted 12 months ago). Disclaimer: as editor, I messed up several times; this is not to complain. Am mainly curious. My postdoc advisor has (phone)called editors

I worked on tandem fluid models 25 years ago. These models are usually abstractions of more complex systems but today I encountered one in real life!

WAT. EEN. WEEKEND ‼️

Have been watching T&F since '84. As a 10-year old I could not understand how Carl Lewis jumped further than our living room. Most of the time the Dutch never won anything. But today interviews had to be kept short because there were so many gold medalists to talk to. Amazing.

Joint Statement by the Patriarchs in Syria Damascus, 8 March 2025 In recent days, #Syria has witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, brutality, and killings, resulting in attacks on innocent civilians, including women and children. Homes have been violated, their sanctity

Waarom deze voorzichtige formulering? Door het stoppen van wapenleveranties en het onthouden van inlichtingen hebben de Russen nu vrij spel. Russische raketten kunnen nu ongehinderd civiele objecten bestoken. Mogelijk gemaakt door Trump. Dit heet verraad. Niets anders.