Found an interesting journal article to read today, but it's in Swedish.
I don't speak Swedish.
Let's read it anyway and see what sticks :-)
04.03.2026 16:05
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Found an interesting journal article to read today, but it's in Swedish.
I don't speak Swedish.
Let's read it anyway and see what sticks :-)
Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.
ChatGPT Pro?
"Wat zijn de belangrijkste uitdagingen voor Brussel?"
- "Euh, wel, als een taalmodel ik kan niet ..."
The priority of the francophone parties has never been Dutch. Imagine if it was the reverse!
For Flemish speakers, French has a lot of connotations, especially given the historical linguistic struggle. I'd say French words are only accepted without issue in some specific contexts (like car parts)
One of the perks of working in the realm of the Arts is that everyone there still values actual humans.
R code suggesting a politically sensitive merger of Brussels and Flanders
For my linguistic map I need to add Brussels to Flanders. Don't tell our PM
goeeeee bezig!!!!!
FYI this is about writing a well-structured academic paper.
A PowerPoint slide with a white background. On the left are two funnels opposite each other. On the right, there is a one way street traffic sign with the caption "éénrichtingsverkeer", "one way traffic" in Dutch
My students will be able to tell my practical driving exam is still top of mind
I think it's important to leave most of the agency to students themselves. I could run the regular expressions for them using a Python script, but then they wouldn't be able to iterate on their results. Let *them* figure out whether they're happy with their output!
antheconc interface. It shows a search bar, a case sensitive toggle, a search button and a download button. Below is a table with KWIC results.
My students were having issues with the "improved" version of AntConc not recognising their regular expressions correctly. I spent some time building "ANTHEconc", and sure enough, it works.
An interface with dropdown menus. The button to the right of the dropdowns always says "Johan".
Another productive day at work
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 🤩
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
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.