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  Found a martabak manis place next to The Hague central station, and immediately tried it out. Had the classic without chocolate sprinkles (so just condensed milk, peanuts and sesame), and it was really good. Tasted very similar to the martabak in had in Bandung. Will try keju susu next 😋 #MakanApaToday #Food #TheHague #DenHaag

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  My wonderful PhD adviser is hiring! He's searching for a PhD student to work on combining search algorithms and machine learning. He's at the department where I did my MSc research back in the day, and where I had an amazing time. https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705642?lang=en #PhDLife #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #GetFediHired #Belgium #MachineLearning #ComputerScience #Algorithms #Optimization

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  I’m on the train, and two women with a baby just got off. Busy train. Baby was very fussy, until… a passenger started distracting the baby with magic tricks 🤯 Sadly I missed the best trick b/c the woman next to me dropped her keys and I helped her search for them, and now the show is over b/c the baby left the train. Don’t have the self confidence to ask the magician for a private show 🥲 #cardtricks #magician #magic #trains #latourontour #treinleven

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  My colleague just asked me if I can bring my lock picking tools to the office on Wednesday and I feel like I should be worried, except that I have no reasonable right to be, since I am the one who has a set of lock picking tools at home... #ProfessorLife #AcademicChatter

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  Wednesday marked 2 years of me using Obsidian. This is the state of my vault now. I still get a dopamine kick every time a node appears or a link is created. So calming. Anyway. I'm currently at 3015 notes, 12980 links, 664 123 words, and 399.57 MB. I guess I need to clean up here and there... #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #Productivity #NoteTaking

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  Somewhat regular reminder that I quoted Sir Terry Pratchett in my dissertation. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3455662 #GNUTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Bookstodon

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  1/n Self-care PSA: walks are good for you. Yesterday I had a headache and didn’t want to go on my evening walk, but I eventually went anyway, and saw many cool things. 1: a cat in deep conversation with a swan. #Caturday #SilentSunday #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #Swan

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  Excuse me? Don't think this is what we mean by "Autism Awareness Month". All jokes aside, this is scary af. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/rfk-jr-autism-nih #Autism #RFK #AutismAwarenessMonth

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  POV: you’re a professor in the Netherlands and you receive a notification that your exams have been printed. #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #ProfessorLife #Bike #bicycling #Netherlands

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  Not the most appetizing shot, but I want y'all to know that coconut rice pudding with mango, lime syrup and crushed pink peppercorns is very yummy. (Context: we had our Easter potluck lunch at work today and I brought rice pudding with various toppings. Other toppings were lemon curd, passion fruit, banana, and powdered sugar. Had intended to also bring the caramelised bananas that I had made, but forgot.) #Food #Dessert #ProfessorLife #Easter #AcademicChatter

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  Seated next to a knitting hottie on the train 😊 #Treinleven #LatourOnTour #Knitting #GoodMorning

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  Wat is het nut van het NS “onveilig gevoel in de trein” telefoonnummer als hun enige reactie “niets van aan trekken, joh” is? Like… ?? #Treinleven #LatourOnTour #NS

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  Me: In the interest of time, I will convince you using a Proof by Intimidation only. Student: Sure! Me: *shows slide* Student, nodding approvingly: That worked :) #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #ProfessorLife #Teaching

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  Wat. 😢 #Sleutelstad #Leiden

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  My uber driver just complimented me on how well I speak Dutch. In Amsterdam. 🫠 #amsterdam #netherlands #dutch #Language

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  @aral @jeromechoo @irfan Had spicy Indomie with leftover crispy tempeh and tahu for lunch yesterday :) #MastoMeeGoreng #Indomie #MakanApaToday #Food

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116294223116338304 To anyone enjoying the replies to this post: the Global Pillage podcast has a whole quiz round dedicated to idioms from all over the world. Even though the podcast is sadly discontinued, you can still listen to the archive of old episodes: https://globalpillage.net/ #Podcasts #Language

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  1/n Anyway, here are some of the vegan foods I had in Vietnam 😋 #Food #MakanApaToday #VegetarianFood #Vietnam #MiQuang #Springrolls #Soup #Salad #Coconut #Pineapple

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  At the Vietnam Lindy Exchange I wasn't the only one masking. Hell, I wasn't even the only White girl masking. I have pics and videos of myself dancing with other masked hotties. Yesterday at a social back in NL, I was immediately interrogated about my mask-wearing, by someone who has known me for a year and a half now and definitely should know better. I got so grumpy that I just left. Super tired anyway, but ya, that meant that I didn't have the energy to deal with the...

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  @rakyat & @irfan here are the pics of the cendawan (?) gepuk I made loosely based on this recipe: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PzSolrYy6-I I don't like fried battered foods, so I just pan-fried the shrooms instead of coating them in flour and deep-frying them. Also I kinda messed up the rice, so I hid it under the cashews. If you have a South East Asian auntie (F/M/X b/c I'm told that "auntie" is a state of mind) willing to yell at me about how to coo...

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  The other day I volunteered for ”a little experiment” during a work training. Turned out that the little experiment was about teaching us the value of clear communication. I was given a drawing and told to make the others replicate that drawing without them seeing the drawing or asking me questions, or me telling them what the drawing depicted. The others were instructed to guess what the drawing depicted as soon as they thought they knew. The trainer was shocked by how accurately the resulting...

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  In a rather extreme edition of #LatourDetour, we have now visited Rinku, Izumisano, and Iharanosato, Japan. #LatourOnTour #LatourDetour #Japan #Trains #Travel

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  BTW: even though Deutsche Bahn cannot reasonably be blamed for the events that resulted in an unexpected and very brief visit to Japan… I had planned to take a train from the airport to the mainland, but that train wasn’t running that morning, so as I entered the replacement bus, it felt like I still got Deutsche Bahned in spirit… #DeutscheBahn #Trains #Travel #Japan #LatourOnTour #LatourDetour From: @anna https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/116248965331817913

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  Woodlands checkpoint is always a nightmare this time on a Sunday, but I’ve never seen it this crowded 😩 They’re definitely taking this “extra security checks” seriously 🥺 #LatourOnTour #Singapore #Malaysia #Travel #Security

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  Had a minor heart attack when I didn’t see any min jiang kueh at the place where I used to buy it, but thankfully they just moved them to a different display. Maybe because they sell more varieties now that they used to? Got peanut, green tea and coconut 😋 #latourontour #makanapatoday #martabakmanis #minjiangkueh #dessert #singapore #food

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  Incredible dedication to indexing in Kleinberg & Tardos. #Algorithms #Algorithmics #ComputerScience #Books #ProfessorLife #Textbook #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter