"Students?" barked the Archchancellor.
"Yes, Master. You know? They're the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we're a *university*? They come with the whole thing, like rats --"

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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It is traditional, when loading wire trolleys, to put the most fragile items at the bottom.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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Of course he was all in favour of Armageddon in *general* terms.

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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Hi everyone,

I feel like a re-introduction is long overdue!

My name is Anna, and I'm an assistant professor of Algorithmics at the Delft University of Technology, specialising in combinatorial optimisation, symbolic AI, constraint programming, propositional model counting, operations research and reasoning under uncertainty.

I'm a nerd, a feminist and a traveller, not always in that order.

In my spare time I like to hike and go geocaching. I try to go swing dancing a few times a week. I am a Trekkie. I want to learn how to draw. I am an Indomie and Obsidian enthusiast. Based in the Netherlands, I miss Belgium, Canada and Singapore.

Since a job in academia somehow always is personal, I have chosen to mix professional interactions with the more personal ones on this platform. At least for now. Obviously, my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer yadiyadiyada.

Hope to keep interacting with you all!

#Introduction #AcademicMastodon #Algorithmics #SymbolicAI #CombinatorialOptimisation #ConstraintProgramming #ModelCounting #OperationsResearch #ProbabilisticInference #Geocaching #LindyHop #Jazz #SwingDancing #Hiking #Obsidian #StarTrek #Travel #TUDelft #MastoMiGoreng #Indomie #GNUTerryPratchett #Catstodon #Mastocats #Caturday #ExpatLife #MakanApaToda

The only flat earth I believe in.

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ALT

Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett, Snuff
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Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh."

Magic armour is not all it's cracked up to be.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

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Perhaps I need an #introduction.
I am the goddess Anoia.
I am the goddess of things stuck in drawers. And volcanoes.
I mostly watch the #discworld but have been known to stray into roundworld so it's best to stay on my good side.
Every time you swear at a stuck drawer, I am there. Rattle them and pray.
I may branch out into looking after things that fall down the back of unmovable furniture, and coins found in sofas.
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