File, submit, done! A year of effort into one document. A master thesis is a lot of work. How do you choose your topic, how to manage your progress, and how do you use it to discover what to you want to do when you...
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Kevin Kloos
5 tips for writing an OR thesis
How do you survive thesis hell? Here are my five best tips tailored to Operations Research.
Caroline Jagtenberg
Does the latest AI chatbot really know everything?
The latest AI that everyone is talking about is called ChatGPT. I came up with my own alternative Turing test and put it to the test.
Why we should do research on counting
It starts with: "what?", it goes to: "is that really a problem?", and it ends with: "how interesting!". These are the three stages that most fellow researchers are going through when I talk about one of the most...
Why statistics is like cooking
Taking statistics classes can be bewildering. It is not like most other branches of mathematics. So bewildering it can be, that some people ask why they cannot just get the recipe for a number of situations and only...
Carolien de Kovel
You see the outlier because it is an outlier
Symptoms are often at their worst when patients visit their doctor, and also get better without intervening. This can happen thanks to a phenomenon we call regression to the mean. A doctor appreciates that if they say...
Judith ter Schure