iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 1h

Great news! Thanks for sharing

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 2h

Belgian media are celebrating the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to a Belgian-born scientist. Unfortunately none of his key research was carried out in Belgium, not even Europe. And then we're cutting funding to fundamental research. What's there to celebrate?

231

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 30/08/2026

DB have joined in on the conspiracy

040

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 29/08/2026

I have it on my radar, but the guided tours are too far into the future for me to make it :( sounds like a dream though

030

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 29/08/2026

I can hereby confirm Bielefeld does indeed exist

Hannover Bielefeld seat reservation sign in a DB ICE train

DB train display showing stops to Düsseldorf

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof entrance hall. The centre of attention is the Dr Oetker sign at the top of the hall

171

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 24/08/2026

I correctly guessed which of the three theses I have to read was not written with the "help" of ChatGPT, and thus saved it for last. Finally, only human sentences. So freeing

020

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 30/07/2026

"zoek het op": Dutch is on its never-ending mission to conquer the world 😎

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 10/07/2026

I like that it cools down well at night. Still, the heat is starting to get trapped inside buildings, and starting from this weekend it won't cool down as much anymore :-( alas

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 09/07/2026

I don't think this was supposed to happen

Jupyter notebook interface showing the result of a cell: a dataframe full of "ballekes" ("litlte balls" or "nothing" in Flemish)

020

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 03/06/2026

Dankjewel voor het harde werk!

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 01/06/2026

Ik had dezelfde bedenking. Lijkt alsof energie-gerelateerde woorden in het Duits moeten, als een soort traditie! Bizar

020

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 26/05/2026

Such a niche cool thing to be able to do! Congrats!

110

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 26/05/2026

I quit at 2500! It's liberating

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 26/05/2026

What was your role as a language consultant?

100

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 21/05/2026

That's too easy of a solution. I propose that every year it switches between Flanders and Wallonia!

150

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 13/05/2026

Inexcusable that Word doesn't just let you write Phoenician nowadays. No respect for the elderly

030

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 11/05/2026

Started addressing peer review for one of my agent-based models. The branch name stems from divine inspiration

030

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 11/05/2026

That's weird. This is not my experience! I serve "Rekker" (github.com/AntheSevenan...) from the root and it works just fine for me. What problem are you running into exactly? Maybe I can help

github.com

GitHub - AntheSevenants/Rekker: Finally, a natural way to explore Elastic Net coefficients

Finally, a natural way to explore Elastic Net coefficients - AntheSevenants/Rekker

300

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 29/04/2026

For reasons unknown to me I have been banned from our student/staff restaurant's website. Everyone else in the building can access the website just fine. No fries for me today :-(

alma.be

FORBIDDEN
You don't have permission to access this resource.

120

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 20/03/2026

In the Belgian case there should be a waffle iron involved. Every other week we swap the rules. And then on weekends we can use German if we're feeling generous

110

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 04/03/2026

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 :-)

010

Reposted by Anthe Sevenants

Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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.

613920

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 16/02/2026

ChatGPT Pro? "Wat zijn de belangrijkste uitdagingen voor Brussel?" - "Euh, wel, als een taalmodel ik kan niet ..."

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 16/02/2026

The priority of the francophone parties has never been Dutch. Imagine if it was the reverse!

100

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 10/02/2026

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)

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 28/01/2026

One of the perks of working in the realm of the Arts is that everyone there still values actual humans.

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 20/12/2025

For my linguistic map I need to add Brussels to Flanders. Don't tell our PM

R code suggesting a politically sensitive merger of Brussels and Flanders

130

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 01/12/2025

FYI this is about writing a well-structured academic paper.

020

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 01/12/2025

My students will be able to tell my practical driving exam is still top of mind

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

130

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 18/11/2025

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!

020

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 18/11/2025

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.

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.

250

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 06/11/2025

Another productive day at work

An interface with dropdown menus. The button to the right of the dropdowns always says "Johan".

110

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 23/09/2025

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...

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

030

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 08/09/2025

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

120

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 03/09/2025

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

040

Reposted by Anthe Sevenants

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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 🤩

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

03511

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 20/08/2025

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...

degruyterbrill.com

The meaning of constructions

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

030

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 14/08/2025

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

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 13/08/2025

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 :-)

120

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 06/06/2025

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

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

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 05/05/2025

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 :-)

110

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 15/04/2025

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

010

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 13/02/2025

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 screenshot of NetLogo showing a black space with grey little people. Two people are coloured: a green person with a speech balloon (the speaker) and a red person with audio waves (the hearer). There are graphs and command lines surrounding the model space.

110

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 12/02/2025

Maybe I should not even be using NetLogo for prototypes

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

000

Anthe Sevenants @anthe.sevenants.net · 16/01/2025

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

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

000