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Dr. Anna Latour
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Computer Scientist. Assistant professor interested in counting and reasoning under uncertainty. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. LaTeX enthusiast.

Flirting allowed, but no […]

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@venite According to Google, this is the Lighthouse of Intra. Don't think it still lights up, tho, so I guess we have a philosophical question on our hands?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/V8CKMyHUsRutZPkm8

#lighthouse #italy #lagomaggiore
View of the exit of a harbour. A small concrete lighthouse-like thing with a spiral staircase around it and an Italian flag on top is located at the right side of the mouth of the harbour. In the foreground a few small boats. Behind the lighthouse a larger boat. Mountains in the background. Soft, golden evening light. A few ducks in the water. A patio with streetlights, tables and flowers on the left side of the harbour exit.
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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In think we can all agree that Deutsche Bahn did me dirty here. And NS, too, for not waiting 😕

#deutschebahn #train #travel #treinleven #ns #venlo
Deutsche Bahn planner showing that y train from Mönchengladbach is delayed so that it arrives in Venlo at 17:05, while my connecting train to Leiden is also delayed, by one minute, departing at 17:04.
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Thanks, Deutsche Bahn 😑

Did make the connection, tho, even though the train from Düsseldorf to Venlo was supposed to be a direct connection. I also bought snacks. It’s finally quiet around me and there are no dogs 🥳

#train #travel #deutschebahn
My phone’s Lock Screen, displaying the time as 16:26. Also a 2-minute old notification from Deutsche Bahn, telling me about a platform change for my train from Mönchengladbach to Venlo, now departing from platform 9 at 16:25.
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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We’re again stalled for no apparent reason. Is this a railway crossing for lizards?

#deutschebahn #train #travel #lizard
A sound wall sign a small sign showing a silhouette of a lizard, with at ground level a hole in the wall.
December 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Lugano train station has a coffee bar with a model railway stapled to the ceiling!

#lugano #switzerland #coffee #cappuchino #goodmorning #train #trains #modelrailway #travel #breakfast
View of a train station coffee/breakfast bar. On the ceiling is an upside-down black model railway with tow trains and even an upside-down bridge. The bar sells coffee and sandwiches. Behind the bar also alcohol. A customer is ordering. Other customers are drinking coffee. Bar is called Binario and has a steam locomotive as logo on the front door.
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Good morning and greetings from Lugano! I'm travelling back to NL today. Follow thread for hopefully not too many updates 🙃

#switzerland #sbb #lugano #train #trains #traintravel #travel #deutschebahn #treinleven #goodmorning
View of Lugano during sunrise. Background of mountains, partially covered in village. Two big pine trees in foreground, as silhouettes against a pale blue sky with bands of orange clouds. Also bell tower in front of the lake.
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Aperitivo time!

#aperitivo #drink #bar
Fancy-looking pink mocktail with foam, decorated with an orange wedge and dried rose petals and lavender. In the background a beer, chairs, tables and a wine rack full of wine bottles.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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And anything that cannot be embroidered, is covered in some kind of plastic pixel art.

#pixelart #hotel #breakfast #goodmorning #egg
An egg boiler. It's a tank with hot water, and a temperature dial. Somebody used plastic pixel art to writ "DK" with an arrow to the best temperature, so you know how to set the dial. In front of it are colour-coded metal "baskets" that you can put an egg in and hang it in the boiler. They are accompanied by egg timers that have received plastic pixel art in corresponding colours, so you know which timer corresponds to which egg basket.
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Made it to the hotel. Everything is embroidered here.

#hotel #travel #italy #embroidery #fibrearts
Embroidered cushion, depicting butterflies among poppies against a yellow background.
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Greetings from Lugano!

#lugano #switzerland
A full moon peeks behind the clouds above mountains full of lights and an illuminated city below.
December 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Made my last train transfer of the day (I hope)!

#train #trains #traintravel #travel #switzerland #sbb
Swiss intercity train with a red and light grey/white exterior entering the station at night.
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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My student did a Science!

One week from now, Denisa Arsene will present the her BSc thesis research at the 14th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, held in Binghamton, New York, USA!

More details and preprint […]

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Poster presenting the highlights of the research in the corresponding paper. Eyecatcher is a big vertical orange banner with the text: 'How to share research-relevant social netowrk data, while preserving privacy? SANA Simulated Annealing for Network Anonymization. Minimal changes. Maximal privacy. Up to 18 times more anonymized nodes. Same speed. Same data utility. It features diagrams that illustrate a type of attack model that is based on characteristics of the direct neighbourhood of nodes. It also has an example plot of how a simulated annealing approach converges to a particular level of anonymity. It then has a bunch of plots that give more details on running time, level of anonymization, and how SANA and the other algorithms perform in terms of data utility. The takeaways are that SANA provides fast and better anonymization and that it scales better with input size than the other algorithms studied here. Next challenges are to tackle multi-objective anonymity and utiliyt, and dynamic (real-time) anonymization.
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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@venite Ik heb ook ooit dit soort sterretjes gebreid. Ik brei nooit meer. Heel jammer wel.
Zelfgebreide vijfpuntige kerststerren in wit, rood en groen.
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/115476226397847329

No one offered any suggestions, so after a short fiction break, I’m now reading Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender?

#bookstodon #reading #books #gender #JudithButler #feminism #philosophy #socialscience #silentsunday
My hand holds the book. The cover features bold text in yellow, purple, and white against a black background. Cover describes it as an international bestseller, and as “Masterful and Inspiring”. A bookmark with a green tassel is stuck in the book. Background features a book case and part of a painting.
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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[Vegetarian food pic]

No meal prep this weekend, but I did cook a simple yet tasty dinner yesterday: carrots roasted in a marinade of harissa, rose water, fresh thyme and pomegranate syrup, served on a whipped feta-and-yoghurt cream, drizzled with olive oil […]

[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
A dinner plate with the meal mentioned in the post.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Happy #caturday, everyone! Please say hi to my sister’s cat, seen here chilling in her favourite flower pot.

#catsofmastodon #mastocats #AcademicCats
Tuxedo cat in a wide petrol blue flower pot. She’s curled up as if ready to nap, but looking at me, slow blinking into the camera. Flower pot on gravel. Hedge and another pot in background.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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[vegan food pics]

Did a bunch of meal prep again yesterday. @irfan, please appreciate the colour on this tempeh 💅

#food #vegan #mealprep #silentsunday #weekend #cooking
Pan-fried slices of celeriac draining in kitchen towel, then being transferred into an oven-safe dish and covered in a miso-butter-thyme-honey glaze. Slightly charred (ahem... "caramelised") pieces of leek in a cast-iron pan with thyme and apple juice. Celeriac slices and apple after cooking in the oven with miso-honey-thyme-butter glaze. Marinated oven-baked tempeh. The colour is super rich and deep and the edges have started to burn a bit so you know it's crispy.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Delft was a vibe this morning!

#delft #rainbow #goodmorning #morning #morninglight #goldenhour
A canal in Delft. Picture taken from a bridge, looking at the gothic tower of the Oude Kerk (Old Church). The tower bathes in a golden morning light, and a rainbow is visible above it. Trees are bare. Cars and bikes are parked long the canal. Another canal in Delft. Again buildings in golden light with an even brighter rainbow visible. Canal next to train station of Delft. In the background, low clouds formed from water vapor from industry light up in a golden light, reflecting in the water. A bright double rainbow above it. A few cyclists on the wet bicycle lane. Another canal in Delft. This time it's the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) that is lit up in golden morning light, with the rainbow hitting the main tower of the church.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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@egonw they’ve given up on Dordrecht.

#treinleven #ns
Info sign for the train to Dordrecht saying that it will terminate at Rotterdam and not continue to Dordrecht, due to being too much delayed.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Er…

#treinleven #ns #nederlandsespoorwegen #train #trains #typography
The train station of Delft, platforms 3 and 4, featuring digital departure boards displaying train schedules and times. The right display shows the information as you would expect, while the left displays everything in a tiny, tiny font, but with the image of the train in the correct size. Also the railway company’s logo’s aspect ratio is wrong while everything else has the correct aspect ratio.
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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[vegan food pics]

Happy to report that yesterday's meal prep resulted in a delicious lunch today :)

PSA: steam your tempeh for 10 minutes before marinating.

#food #vegan #cooking #mealprep
Cast-iron pan full of soup, on a stove top. It's a very orange blended pumpkin soup and I'm in the process of stirring in the coconut cream. Cast-iron pan on a stove top. In the pan are chunks of pumpkin and carrot, floating in a spicy broth. Oven-roasted tempeh chunks.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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[vegan food pics]

Gang, I meal-prepped again. Please clap.

CC: @irfan

#food #vegan #cooking #mealprep
A selection of spices, a mortar and pestle, measuring spoon, onion, garlic and ginger. Spices are dried fenugreek leafs, bay leafs, cloves, cardamom pods, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, cinnamon sticks and extra hot chili powder. Onions and spices being fried in a skillet. Baking sheet with roasted pumpkin chunks and a baking sheet with triangular chickpea fries. Skillet with a rich tomato sauce that had just had some coconut cream poured in.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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[vegan food pics + rant]

Vegan meal prepped like a beast yesterday to make sure that I have a healthy lunch and dinner each day in the coming week. Packed most of it up to take to the office. Dragged that and my work stuff and my sports bag to the station […]

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Peek inside a tote bag with five food storage containers. Cast iron pan with sauteed veggies. Baking sheet with roasted chunks of pumpkin. Casserole dish with tofu and apples in a miso sauce.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Speaking of books with pink covers, I’m about to finish Angela Saini’s The Patriarchs. Any suggestions for what I should read next?

#bookstodon #books #reading #patriarchy
My hand holding the book "The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule" by Angela Saini. The cover shows a statue of a man on horseback, against a vibrantly pink background.
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Junhan Wen, for successfully defending her dissertation, titled

"From iMage to Market - Machine-Learning-Empowered Fruit Supply"

Junhan recently won the Open Science award for the Growing Strawberries Dataset that she assembled as part […]

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Propositions 1. An effective multiple object tracking method for associating the observations must dynamically and adaptively combine motion and appearance features. (Chapter 3) 2. Image data alone is insufficient for internal quality estimation, but can augment other information to make predictions for individual fruits. (Chapter 4) 3. The color spectrum serves as a universal criterion for fruit maturity, offering a reliable and transferable method for evaluation by both humans and robots. (Chapter 5) 4. Training a model using the regret of its decisions leads to an appropriate level of conservatism. (Chapter 6) 5. A research project is like a Lego set: only a few bricks are visible, while a larger, carefully arranged structure supports it. 6. Developing methods for treating a spherical cow is important; however, tailoring these for polygonal or real cows holds equal or greater significance. 7. If we need to categorize based on partial observation or estimation with uncertainty, we have to learn to accept the error. 8. PhD memes are the antidote to the impostor syndrome. 9. Cat propositions are neither opposable nor defendable, and thus not approvable. 10. In the journey of pursuing a PhD, one must have an addiction, among which sports is the healthiest option. These propositions are regarded as opposable and defendable, and have been approved as such by the promotors Prof.dr. M. M. de Weerdt, and Dr. T. Abeel. A pile of printed dissertations. Their cover is an illustration of a robot hand pointing at strawberries, some of them riper than others. Charts illustrate their ripeness. Part of the ceremony. The committee in robes are sitting behind a table, while one member stands up and speeches. Freshly minted doctor and her paranimphs are standing in front of them, with their backs to the viewer, listening. All are dressed in black. TU Delft logo in background, coat of arms on floor. Junhan presents her research on how to predict when an individual strawberry is ripe for harvest, and how to use that information to predict the size of future harvests.
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM