Anthe Sevenants

Slide: What is the reducing effect? Image: emoji man with text balloon "dunno"

Slide: the solution is in the fries Images: fries in a fry cone, upside down virtual cone

Next Tuesday 30/09 at 2 PM CEST I'm presenting my first case study's results to my research group. I made an agent-based simulation of reduction. All are welcome to join: the Teams meeting is open :-) teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

We gaan deze kijken op het jaarlijkse vriendenweekend. Vrienden in kwestie zijn al helemaal hype. Dank voor de tip!!!

handwritten mindmap: who am I? -> publication on linguistic simulations (with picture of articles) -> digital native + little linguist (with picture of small Anthe) -> part of QLVL (with QLVL logo) background navy blue, header "Anthe Sevenants - It's all frequency?"

With FWO pitch season coming up, I looked up my own PowerPoint from two years ago. Not sure what I was doing here but clearly it worked

A comic of a Zipfian distribution where the curve looks like a dinosaur with head, body & tail

Thanks to the presentation by @anthe.sevenants.net at #SLE2025 today I now know of the Zipfian dinosaur 🦕 and shall henceforth use it in all my stats classes 🤩

The meaning of constructions Article The meaning of constructions was published on August 20, 2025 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 0, issue 0).

My review of 'The Meaning of Constructions' by @benoitleclercq.bsky.social and Cameron Morin is out now. The book gives an impressive summary of meaning in construction grammar given its size. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Screenshot of 1.8T in a terminal window

So maybe I shouldn't be pickling my models in their entirety. 1.8 TB used ...

Thank you for reaching out! Unfortunately I am working with multi-dimensional tensors spanning hundreds of dimensions. While possible in NetLogo, the performance wasn't the best. This is why I had to jump ship to rewriting everything in Python. Different tools for different use cases :-)

Slide: 214 participants 44 oral presentations 23 posters 11 demos 10 workshops 3 panels 3 library tours 1 train strike

The end of #DHBenelux2025: many authors, one train strike

A picture from the audience of the introduction to the DH Benelux conference. The photo is taken in the Auditorium of the VU Main Building from the perspective of the audience. Two speakers stand in front. A slide is presented showing the VU campus.

I am at #DHBenelux2025. Come say hi!

What's happened to it? I self-host Overleaf with Docker. It's an older version (I haven't touched the install in a while) but it's at least reliably outdated :-)

No rush! Please enjoy your post-defence time. You deserve it!

Congratulations Anastassia!

I need more advanced features than NetLogo can provide, so I'm jumping ship. Nonetheless, look at the little speakers and hearers I designed! A hearer turns red if communication failed. Poor little guys.

A NetLogo window showing "(Not Responding)" because the program is overwhelmed

Maybe I should not even be using NetLogo for prototypes

GitHub - AntheSevenants/frq2csv: A small Python library to convert COREX frq files to CSV and TSV A small Python library to convert COREX frq files to CSV and TSV - AntheSevenants/frq2csv

I wrote a conversion script to convert the frequency lists of the Corpus Spoken Dutch (available @ivdnt.bsky.social) to standard CSV and TSV github.com/AntheSevenan...

A slide which shows Super Mario Bros for the NES with some reinforcement learning lingo around it

I'm at VUB for a course on reinforcement learning and they know how to grab my attention

A list of literature on a Boox device

A list of attachments for a specific book

The Zotero integration for Boox devices is pretty terrible. It doesn't support automatically downloaded attachments, and it doesn't support custom WebDAV endpoints. So I built my own! Syncing back to Zotero is something for another time.

Blue PowerPoint slide. Slide title: "Language belongs to everyone" On the left, institute expectations: we decide the course of language Expanding galaxy brain meme, with a red line over it On the right: reality: I'm just a guy on TikTok Timon Verbeeck, Belgian TikTok star, in a red bodysuit, doing a thumbs up and looking goofy

Find me and Julie Nijs at the CogLing days in Antwerp next Thursday. We have lots to say about individual variation in linguistics. And about this guy in a red bodysuit.

A screenshot of the ProofCentral interface with a modal saying "Edit not allowed here"

I will have whoever designed ProofCentral put on Santa's naughty list

Thomas and I presented another edition of #lingquiztics! Congratulations to our winners and see you next year!

Blue slide with "The Sims" logo: The Sims for research: the merit of using computer simulations Anthe Sevenants

Just wrapped up my talk @ the #DH Virtual Discussion Group. Very happy to have met lovely, friendly people. Thank you @leahcb.bsky.social for inviting me!

On Monday 25/11 (15h-16h30): 2nd session of the fall edition of the #DH Virtual Discussion Group for ECRs in BE! 🇧🇪🧑‍💻 #DigitalHumanities #DHinBelgium

Join us for a presentation from @anthe.sevenants.net about the benefit of computer simulations for research.

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I like general linguistic theory, but nothing beats working on present Dutch. Every day, I get to compare my results to what I actually hear in person. Spontaneous field work!