You have probably heard of it: TikTok. The widely popular app that came to existence after the acquisition of the video startup Musical.ly by the Chinese company ByteDance. Today, the app is used by almost 1.3 billion monthly active users, far more than Twitter and...
Mr. Pity vs. Nature
Mr. Pity was a very, very unlucky man. As a kid he had once accidentally stepped on a butterfly in the forest. But this was no ordinary butterfly! It was the most beautiful butterfly Nature had ever produced. Out of revenge, Nature cursed young Mr. Pity: "Whatever you...
The ‘New’ normal
The measures taken during the current global coronavirus pandemic will not last for a few more weeks. Instead, these measures may last forever. This pandemic is unlike anything we have ever experienced before. Almost all aspects of our daily lives have been altered to...
Neural networks, the machine learning of the future
The human brain solves millions of problems daily. To do this, the brain first acquires the necessary information needed to solve any given problem. Then it uses and modifies this information to get a clear assessment of what the problem exactly entails. Once it knows...
The Optimal Pace
For professional athletes, the goal of running a marathon is to complete it as fast as possible. However, this does not mean that the athletes are running as hard as they can all the time, as one cannot maintain this pace the entire marathon. Hence they need to find a...
Is life a video game?
Reality is probably not what it seems. The simulation hypothesis proposes that all of reality, including the earth and the universe, is in fact, a computer simulation. This proposition is, in fact, based on fundamental principles of human reasoning. Billions of years...
The danger of quantum computers
[Latexpage] The idea of a quantum computer first arose in the late $20^{th}$ century. Richard Feynman was the first person to think of using the special quantum properties to solve difficult mathematical problems. A lot of progress has already been achieved. “Let’s...
AlphaZero: the new king of chess
It may seem like a guy with a really curious last name gave his child an even weirder first name, but AlphaZero is actually the name of the computer program developed by DeepMind (owned by Google). This year, this program managed to shock the chess world by beating...
Puzzle box problem
[latexpage] Problem You are being held captive in a bunker with no possible way to communicate with any other life form. There is only one way to escape from this prison. You see a wooden box in front of you that has 8 knobs. It looks like the lock of the bunker. Each...
Met Operations Research levens redden? Misschien kan het wel!
Je komt er waarschijnlijk liever niet, maar als je dan toch een keer naar het ziekenhuis moet, ben je er liever ook weer zo snel mogelijk weg. In de praktijk ziet dit er helaas anders uit. Zo zit je bij de eerste hulp vaak lang te wachten tot je geholpen wordt, maar...
How can we make legal cases go faster?
I was searching for a topic for my thesis, when the idea of investigating the performance measures of a court appeared. This was ideal since one of my relatives is a judge and I therefore could collect many information via him. As it turned out, there were some very...
Misdaden oplossen met een algoritme
Wanneer een moord of terroristische aanslag wordt gepleegd, is het aan de rechercheurs en politieagenten de taak in een zo kort mogelijke tijd zoveel mogelijk scenario’s af te gaan. Hierbij wordt rekening gehouden met onder andere het motief van de dader, de plaats...
Highways, low costs
For most multichannel merchants, transportation of goods is the highest operational expense. Inbound freight costs for domestically sourced products typically range from 2% to 4% of gross sales, while for imported products, inbound freight costs 6% to 12% of gross...
Stockholm weer IKEA’s epicentrum
Hoe een bedrijf van wereldformaat profiteert van gecentraliseerde planning. – Agnes Lieftinck
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