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

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...

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

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

I am at #DHBenelux2025. Come say hi!

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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!

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. ℹ️ scholarlytales.hcommons.org?p=2146

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!