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Dear Club Polyglotte members, Please note that we changed our online meetings from Skype to Teams. An installation of Teams is not necessary (see links at the bottom). The online meetings take place on Tuesdays at 19:00, unless otherwise indicated. CP English Club Polyglotte Luxembourg Community in Microsoft Teams with Pete from London on Tuesdays at 19:00 h: https://teams.live.com/l/community/FEA32nllYOKVkYfQA8?v=g1 CP German Club Polyglotte Luxembourg Community in Microsoft Teams with Margit on Tuesdays at 19:00 h: https://teams.live.com/l/community/FEAPmC0cP2yAknqqAw?v=g1 CP Italian Club Polyglotte Luxembourg Community in Microsoft Teams on Tuesdays at 20:30 h. https://teams.live.com/l/community/FEAgAGRUsyLPKIB8BU?v=g1 CP Spanish Club Polyglotte Luxembourg Community Community in Microsoft Teams on Wednesdays at 19:00 h: https://teams.live.com/l/community/FEA7FZyGJ463yXNOwM?v=g1 CP Luxembourgish Club Polyglotte Luxembourg Community in Microsoft Teams Wednesdays at 19:00 h https://teams.live.com/l/community/FEAyv2RkRJLWFo8vAo?v=g1 CP French Club Polyglotte Luxembourg Community in Microsoft Teams on Fridays at 19:00 h. https://teams.live.com/l/community/FEAHMjICzF_sgKrfgs?v=g1 When you click on the secured https link, you need to connect to Teams and click on the button to join via your browser (no installation needed) Or via the MS Teams App, which is of course also possible. Download from the official website for your desktop: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app For your Android device from Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.teams&pli=1 For your OIS device from Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-teams/id1113153706 Kind regards, Your Club Polyglotte Luxembourg team Email: clubpolyglotte@gmail.com

Feel free to bring games, or suggest some from my collection (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/garryjenkins). Please RSVP so I can select appropriate games for the number of people attending. Food and drinks should be purchased on site. Also to have an idea about what type of games you probably will play, you can take a look at the comments of previous weeks of this weekly meetup. If you have any question, don't hesitate to send me a message, or ask here in comments.

Welcome to our weekly physical or virtual Club Polyglotte meeting. * As usual, a minimum consumption of one drink or something small to eat is obligatory at Restaurant Quai Steffen at 13, Place de la gare at the Luxembourg railway station. * We start our get together at 19:00 h and finish at 22:00 h. As on every Tuesday, participate at one of the following language tables: 1. English 2. French 3. Luxemburgish 4. German 5. Spanish 6. Italian or languages like Mandarin, Russian, Romanian or Arabic, if needed. We are constantly searching for Buddies who lead the various language tables and for those who would like to participate in the organisation for our club established in 1999. Please message us, if you are interested in managing the Club with us on Facebook / Meta. Membership fees per calendar year: 3 EUR cash (members until and including 24 Y, only 1 EUR) Compulsory consumption applies at Restaurant Le Quai Steffen! Best regards, Your Club Polyglotte Luxembourg team

Turn on next LuxBuzz Integration Breakfasts Series In a fast-moving world, many of us pause at some point and ask: Am I using my time and energy in the right way? Our next LuxBuzz Integration Breakfast invites you to reflect on a powerful and very personal question: Is it a waste of time? Understanding value on your professional & personal journey. • How do we understand our true value? • How can we recognise our strengths and talents? • And how do we use this awareness to make better life and career decisions? This informal gathering is part of the LuxBuzz Integration Breakfast Conversation programme, organised by The LuxBuzz Academy ASBL within the framework of the [Biergerpakt by Mifa](https://www.linkedin.com/company/biergerpakt/). We are delighted to welcome our guest speaker Dr. [Adam Petersen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-petersen/) \- Professor of Management Practice and Academic Director for Executive Education at [Luxembourg School of Business](https://www.linkedin.com/company/luxembourg-school-of-business/) and host of the [RTL Today](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rtltoday/) radio show “Office Hours” where he explores everyday questions about life and work in Luxembourg. With over 20 years of experience in global energy and technology organisations, he focuses on helping individuals and leaders better understand their strengths, create meaningful impact and build fulfilling professional environments. During this participatory breakfast, [Adam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-petersen/) will share his insights on how to better understand your personal value and apply it in both professional and personal life: • how to better understand our personal value • how to identify strengths and talents • how to use this knowledge in professional and personal choices • an open exchange with participants The breakfast is designed as a friendly conversation in a small group, where everyone can ask questions, reflect and share experiences. 📅 Date: 19 May 2026 ⏰ Time: 09:00–10:30 📍 Location: The Office Charlotte, 29, Bd Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, Luxembourg Participation is limited to keep the discussion dynamic and personal. Please use this link to register**[https://biergerpakt.zesummeliewen.lu/calendrier/luxbuzz-integration-breakfast-connaissez-votre-valeur-le-fondement-dun-travail-et-dune-vie-qui-ont-du-sens/](https://biergerpakt.zesummeliewen.lu/calendrier/luxbuzz-integration-breakfast-connaissez-votre-valeur-le-fondement-dun-travail-et-dune-vie-qui-ont-du-sens/)** Please also not that the registration is closed one day before the event. We hope to see many of you there. Let’s create the buzz together! 🐝🐝🐝 [hashtag](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23luxbuzzacademy&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED)

Ready for a different kind of afterwork? Want to get buzzed with inspiration? **Join our Meaningful Afterwork!** A relaxed and uplifting space for meaningful conversations inspired by the Bahá’í Writings. Together, we explore deep questions about life, purpose, and the world around us, connecting spiritual insights with the realities of everyday living and the challenges of society. An open, co-created, and collaborative space for reflection, discussion, and consultation, where everyone is welcome to be a protagonist, share, listen, and think together. And because meaningful connection also happens around the table, this is also a potluck-style gathering: feel free to bring something to share! Food for the soul… and for the body ;) Come as you are. Bring your openness and curiosity, meet new people and recharge your spirit! The Details: * 📅 **Date:** Friday, 22nd May * ⏰ **Time:** 6:30pm * 📍 **Location:** 17, Allée Léopold Goebel, Luxembourg City In case you have further questions, feel free to contact us via email ([meaningfulafterwork@gmail.com](https://meaningfulafterwork@gmail.com "https://meaningfulafterwork@gmail.com")). Warmly, Your Meaningful Afterwork Team P.S.: As spaces for the upcoming Meaningful Afterwork will be limited, please sign up via the link below to let us know if you’re coming, if you’re bringing a colleague, and what treats you might be bringing for the potluck: 🔗 [https://forms.gle/9LxXX4PmwA62vhZM7](https://forms.gle/9LxXX4PmwA62vhZM7)

Let's go bowling again together, this time at Strike in Howald! Bowling is great fun because none of us are very good at it, but it's a fun time especially as we chat around drinks and nibbles :) Strike does have other games available on-site, though for now I have only reserved the bowling. If you would like to play pool, darts, or shuffleboard while there, you can book it separately or we can inquire about availability when we get there. I've booked two lanes for two hours, and we can be up to 6 people per lane. I have already paid for the booking and shoe rentals, which comes out to 20€ per person. I can only know that you are 100% coming if you pre-pay, so please reach out to me privately for Payconiq, bank transfer, or Revolut details! Thanks!

Hey everyone! The weather’s finally turning nice, so let’s go grab a cup of coffee at Florence Coffee Belair and then head to the nearby Park Merl to make the most of it with a chill picnic on Sunday! 🌳☀️ Bring along: blankets, snacks, drinks, games, and whatever else you’d like to share or enjoy. Meeting point: Florence Coffee Belair. When we head to the park, I will share the precise location. If you enjoy the event, a voluntary donation is appreciated to help cover organisation costs - BE06967188175922. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Kate

**How AI Breaks the Career Ladder: Automation and Coordination Failure in Knowledge-Intensive Firms** by [Claudio Zucca](https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudio-zucca-b691292/) AI automation creates an intertemporal tradeoff for knowledge-intensive firms: cutting junior workers to exploit cheap automation boosts short-term profits but depletes the career pipeline needed to develop future senior talent. Individual f irms can resolve this tension through lateral hiring from competitors, but the industry as a whole cannot—lateral markets merely redistribute talent from a collectively shrinking pool. We develop a dynamic model with nested CES production calibrated to law firms, investment banking, and management consulting, treating the industry as a closed system where senior professionals must be developed internally through multi-year apprenticeships. When all f irms optimize automation individually, they collectively eliminate 92–95% of the junior talent pipeline. Dynamic simulations show firms maintaining career ladders sacrifice 16–32% of potential automation gains in the short run but ultimately achieve 60–112% higher output when partner scarcity becomes the binding constraint. Crossover periods occur 8–15 years after the automation shock (at absolute periods t=14 for investment banking, t=16 for law firms, and t=20 for management consulting). Although automation initially boosts output by 50%, the subsequent destruction of the career pipeline depletes the senior professionals who are production complements to automation, causing output to fall below the pre-shock baseline despite continued robot usage. This creates a coordination failure combining Becker’s training externality with common pool resource dynamics: individual firms can free-ride on competitors’ training investments through lateral hiring, but when all firms automate simultaneously, lateral markets cannot expand aggregate capacity. Solutions require industry wide coordination **Hidden Signals in Text Embeddings: Recovering Skill Hierarchies with Inductive Hyperbolic Representations** by [Thiago Brant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thiago-quaresma-chaves-brant-605a21b/) Many areas of learning have a hidden order: some skills and ideas need to come before others. In this work, we ask whether that order can be inferred from the subtle signals already embedded in text embeddings, even when the model is not explicitly told which concept should point to which. We train a self-supervised system that learns from text descriptions, places concepts in a curved space well suited for hierarchies, and uses only a very small hint to keep the overall direction consistent. When tested on entirely new skills, the method recovers prerequisite direction better than a comparable standard baseline. Control experiments also show that the gains come from meaningful semantic information in the text. Overall, the results suggest that text representations contain hidden clues about learning order, and that hyperbolic geometry helps bring that structure out.

Outdoor calisthenics workouts are a fantastic way to build strength, improve fitness, and enjoy the great outdoors 😁🦾 Calisthenics is a form of strength training that uses the resistance of your body and gravity to help strengthen your muscles and improve your coordination, endurance, and mobility. It’s a workout that relies on body weight with little or no equipment. In fact, almost all common bodyweight exercises are considered calisthenics exercises. Some examples include: - airsquats - pushups - pullups - frogstand -handstand -musclup -backlever aso 😁 Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced athlete, calisthenics provides a holistic approach to fitness. 🏋️‍♂️💪

Has it been just you and your phone lately? It’s easy to feel connected yet still feel alone. Digital interactions can’t replace the warmth of eye contact, real laughter, and meaningful conversations. True connection happens when we step away from our screens and show up as ourselves — present, open, and engaged. At Fast Friending, we create spaces where real relationships begin. - just genuine conversations and shared moments. Because nothing compares to meeting face-to-face, discovering common ground, and walking away with a connection that truly feels real. **You will need to buy a ticket for attending -** [https://lux23rdmay.eventbrite.co.uk](https://lux23rdmay.eventbrite.co.uk) \*You can use any debit or credit card to purchase your ticket at PayPal checkout. It will ask you for your email address but that is only to send you a receipt. You do not need a PayPal account. TICKETS:- Early Bird - €5 / person Regular Ticket - €10 / person Cash at meetup: If you do not purchase a ticket in advance then you can pay Shye cash of €15 when you attend. **Here’s how your evening will flow:-** **7:00 PM – Welcome** Arrive at 7:00 PM and be welcomed by your host, Shye, who will guide the evening and help with introductions. Feeling shy? Come a little early and she’ll ease you into small-group conversations. You’re also welcome to bring a lady friend along for free. **7:30 – 8:30 PM \| Fast Friending** Chat with a new attendee every 3 minutes, ensuring you meet a variety of like-minded ladies and gentlemen. **After 8:30 PM \| Open Mingling** Reconnect with those you enjoyed speaking to and continue meaningful conversations at your own pace \- We are not a close knit tight group\. Our evenings are warm and comfortable for members attending for the first time and those coming alone\. You will not feel alone\! \- We have many groups in this city\. Members of our other groups who RSVP are included as guests of the organisers in order to give you an indication of expected people\. \- This evening is for ladies and gents in the 21 to 45 age group\. While some will be at the younger end of this range there will also be others at the other end of the range and lots in\-between\! You will naturally gel with others of your own age range and so you will always find many attendees who fit your range\. \- We are not a dating group\. Our events are not organised to manage your dating life\. Our group is created to help ladies and gents meet other like minded ladies and gents\. Please do not attend our event if a perfect gender balance is important for your enjoyment of our meet\-up\. Why do we have tickets? 1. Cover our costs - Our host is compensated for their time and work. We also pay meetup and have dedicated staff to manage our events, hosts, venues and communication. 2. Group Safety - By securing your ticket we have a record and you contribute to a well organized evening where everyone is more committed and better behaved. 3. Management - Tickets help us better manage attendee group size, book suitable space and activity. ABOUT [fastfriends.co.uk ](https://fastfriends.co.uk/)- We have connected members successfully for the past 10 years in over 30 cities (operating as Expatsclub, MeetConnectDevelop and fastfriends.co.uk). \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- You can contact our founder Dan on +447715705005 with any questions or ideas. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Here are some videos which will give you some guidance and comfort to make your attendance more productive.** Secrets of socializing at our meetups - [http://bit.ly/secrets-socializing ](http://bit.ly/secrets-socializing) How to make new friends - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GB0Hc_bSs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GB0Hc_bSs)

Short North Street Skates return Saturday, April 4 and we’re excited to get back rolling together. These weekly rollouts are a chance to move through the city as a group, build community, and create more visibility for skating and small-wheeled movement in Columbus. Details: Meet: 1160 N High St 9:30 AM meet 10:00 AM rollout All wheels welcome We’ll be skating through the Short North and surrounding areas at a steady, social pace. Routes will use a mix of streets and bike lanes, so comfort navigating the city is helpful, but you don’t need to be an expert. If you’ve been meaning to come out, this is a great place to start. Come solo or bring a friend!

🏓 **CSC Pickleball League – Join the Fun!** Whether you're competitive or just want to connect with fellow members, this friendly ladder league is for you! 🗓 **May 19 – July 7** ⏰ Tuesdays \| 7:00–9:00 PM 📍 Match Point Pickleball Club – 350 McCormick Blvd, Columbus 💲 $85 per player (no sub needed if you need to skip a week) **YOU MUST SIGN UP VIA LINK BELOW AND PAY PRIOR TO 5/17 TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.** [Pickleball Summer 2026 - Calendar - Columbus Ski Club](https://www.columbusskiclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=686961&item_id=2948671&actr=3) No equipment required (bring your own paddle if you prefer). Partners rotate weekly, and skill levels are assigned by the facility—no experience needed! Come out, improve your game, and meet great people. All skill levels welcome! Columbus Ski Club Membership is required to participate - don't worry its not expensive and allows you annual access to many other sports leagues and activities along with trips! Sign up for membership here and then proceed to sign up for Pickleball league. Please reach out with any questions! [New Member Sign Up - Columbus Ski Club](https://www.columbusskiclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=60&club_id=686961)