Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social

I wrote an article about the need for low-carbon and #sustainable #computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing.

In short, we need to dramatically limit the growth in emissions from computing, or by 2040 emissions from computing alone will be close to half the emissions level acceptable to keep global warming below 2°C.

And it is possible to do this.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing/

I made a small #drawing. It's on A4 Khadi rough cotton rag paper (320 gsm), I used #watercolour pencils and bistre and the Chinese writing brushes shown in the picture.
#art

This is a set of portraits based on a scene from the 2015 movie 海街 diary (umimachi diary), "Our little sister" in English, by Hirokazu Kore-Eda. They are the Kōda sisters, Sachi (white yukata with blue flowers), Yoshino (ginkgo leaf pattern yukata), and Chika (blue yukata); and Suzu (white yukata with blue and pink).

I used Conté pencils, Faber-Castell Graphite Aquarelle and Derwent Inktense on Arches 300 g/m² rough watercolour paper, 56 cm x 38 cm.

#fediart
#drawing

I finished a new large #watercolour #drawing. It's probably the most detailed drawing I ever made.

The main figure in the drawing is based on a picture I took at the Gion Matsuri in #Kyoto some years ago. It is a dancer performing the old Japanese court dance "Ran-Ryo-O".

I used Derwent Inktense and Conté Aquaralle pencils as well as watercolour paint (various brands). The paper is Arches 56cmx76cm 300g/m2 rough watercolour paper.

#art #mastoart

I finished my #drawing, on the last day of my holidays! It's the first time I've done such a large #watercolour (50cmx70cm). It's based on a picture I took of a lotus in a pond in a temple (萬福寺) near #Kyoto. #art #mastoartDetail of the lotus pond watercolour

#introductions

I'm Wim, in Glasgow (Scotland).
I like #photography, #reading, #art, #veggie cooking and #japan (#日本語).

I do research on #compilers, #languages and runtimes (e.g. #OpenCL) for #FPGAs, #GPUs and #manycores.

I program in #Perl, #Haskell, #Fortran, #C++,#Python.

@wim_v12e is my main account, I use it mostly for the non-technical stuff. The computer stuff usually goes on @wim_v12e@cybre.space.

I finished my #drawing. It's based on a picture of a scene from the Gion Matsuri that I took in Kyoto last summer. I used #watercolour pencils, acrylic watercolour paint and bistre. #art

Motivated by @csepp , I wrote a haiku in haku. I even added a new keyword 俳句 ("haiku").

咲くとは「ギラギラ太陽」を見せるの事です。
暑いとは件で件を見せるの事です。
夏とは「照らされたいよ」の事です。

俳句とは
寺は空、
蓮は咲いてた、
暑い夏
の事です。

The actual haiku is

寺は空
蓮は咲いてた
暑い夏

tera ha kara
hasu ha saiteta
atsui natsu

an empty temple
the lotus was blooming
hot summer

All the rest is needed to make it a valid haku program. When you run it, it prints

ギラギラ太陽
照らされたいよ

giragira taiyou
terasaretai yo

which is more poetry ^_^

I had quite a few plans for Haku, like a romaji version and a version without any Japanese at all, but I currently lack both the time and the motivation to work on it.

As promised I wrote an article about my motivation for creating Haku, my Japanese-language programming language.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/why-i-wrote-haku/

#programming
#japanese

Now cooking dinner (https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/recipes/veggie-binagoonang-talong/ but with yellow peppers instead of aubergines) while listening to another CD:

Madredeus "Lisboa"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk0mW68x9-c

The spices and umami is probably the most important part of the recipe.

In this case, I used some dried mushrooms; ground coriander, cumin and turmeric; doenjang (a Korean miso-style condiment) and a little doubanjiang (a Chinese spicy broad bean condiment).

The soup is what I call a "good housekeeping" soup, to use up stuff that needs eating. In this case a tin of pumpkin, a swede that the shop delivered by mistake and some wilting celery.
I add some carrots, ginger and garlic and various spices and sources of umami.

Making soup while listening to a CD from 1992, on a Discman of that same era.

"Concerts A Deux Violes Esgales
Du Sieur de Sainte Colombe"
(Tome II) by Jordi Savall and Wieland Kuijken

Very beautiful music for two viola da gamba

This is one of the five tracks on that CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW08n7G1ZjA

go ahead, listen till the end and cry