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Foremost, I would like to thank my supervisors.
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Having three of them ensured that there was always enough ideas to work on, theory to understand, papers to review, seminars to attend, and chats to have.
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Frits Vaandrager, thank you for being a very motivating supervisor, pushing creativity, and being only a few meters away.
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It started with a small puzzle (trying whether a certain test algorithm would help a learning case study), which was a great, hands-on start of my PhD.
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You introduced me to the field of model learning in a way which showcases both the theoretical and practical aspects.
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Alexandra Silva, thank you for inviting me to London, Caribbean islands, hidden cocktail clubs, and the best food.
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You introduced me to more abstract reasoning about state machines, the coalgebraic way.
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Although not directly shown in this thesis, this way of thinking has helped and you pushed me to pursuit clear reasoning.
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Besides the theoretical things I've learned, you've also taught me many personal lessons inside and outside of academia.
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Bas Terwijn, thanks for broadening my understanding of the topics touched upon in this thesis.
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Unfortunately, we have no papers together, but the connections you showed to logic, computational learning, and computability theory have influenced the thesis nevertheless.
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I am also grateful for the many nice chats we had.
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At the first floor of the Mercator building, I had the pleasure of spending four years with fun office mates.
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Michele Volpato, thanks for introducing me to the PhD life, by always joking around.
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Hopefully, we can play a game of Briscola again.
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Alexis Linard, many thanks for all the tasty {\it\nl proeverijen,\en} wheter it was beers, wines, {\nl poffertjes, kroketten\en}, or anything else.
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Your French influences will be missed.
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Niels van der Wijde, thanks for the abstract nonsense and bashing on politics.
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Further down the corridor, there was the office of Paul Fiterau and Rick Smeters.
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Paul, thanks for being the kindest colleague I've had and for inviting us to your musical hobbies.
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Rick, thanks for
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Was there a more iconic duo on our floor?
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Perhaps Petra van den Bos and Ramon Janssen.
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Nils
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Tim
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Harco
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Jurriaan
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David Venhoek
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Jan
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David N Jansen
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Ingrid
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Doing a PhD would not be complete without a good amount of playing kicker, having {\nl borrels\en}, and eating cakes at the institute.
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Thanks to all of you, Baris, Jacopo, Henning, Simone, Gabriel, Marcos, Markus, Giso, Manxia, Bas, Bas, Bram, Paulus, Marc, Dan, Leon, Sam.
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Thanks to people across the channel (which hopefully will remain part of the EU): Gerco, Tobias, Louis, Paul, Nath, Fred, Rueben, Kareem, Carsten, Benni, Borja, ???
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for the theoretical adventure, but also thanks for joining me to {\it Phonox} and other parties in London.
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Special thanks to Matteo and Emanuela for hosting me many times.
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I had a lot of fun at the IPA events.
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I'm very thankful for Tim Willemse and Loek Cleophas for organising these events.
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Special thanks to Nico Naus and Priyanka ??? for organising a Halloween social event with me.
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Also thanks to all the participants in the IPA events, you made it a lot of fun!
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My gratitude extends to all the people I have met at summer schools and conferences.
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Hope we meet again!
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I would also like to thanks other friends, for hosting me, cooking excellent dinners, or otherwise having fun with me.
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Thanks, Gabe, Edo, Nick, Geert, Carmen, Marlon, Hannah, Wouter, Dennis,
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Hash ru???
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Familie
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Tessa
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