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Harvest
Today again some interesting vegetables in the harvest of Herenboeren Usseler Es. (There were some choices you could make and what
you get depends on the subscription you have.) Below is a photo of what I took home. In the front are some snow peas. Behind them
(in the middle) a kohlrabi and daikon (which are related to the radish). Behind
them are two heads of endive. On the right are red spring onions and dill. The
red spring onions is said to have a slightly spicier taste than the normal
spring onions. I am quite surprised at how much harvest we already have so
early in the year.
Candidate lists
This morning, I have studied the 'Kandidatenlijsten' (candidate lists) that we
received before, which gives information about the candidates for the upcoming
election for the European Parlement. The list of candidates can be
downloaded (in variosu formats) from:
Kandidatenlijsten Europees Parlementsverkiezing 2024. I noticed that not
all parties list the gender of the candidates. I have only seen 'm' for male
and 'v' for female. It is surprising that among these are both left, right and
far right parties. There is one (far right) party that also does not give the
firstname of the candidates. There is one party, Meer Directe Democractie / More Direct Democracy were all the candidates
are women. It noticed that most parties have far more candidates than they
could get seats. There are only 31 seats to be filled for the Netherlands in
the European Parliament and there is an electoral threshold of around 3.23%.
There is one party, 50PLUS
that has 50 candidates on their list although they are not expected to get more
than one percent of the votes. It is expected that only between 35% and 40% of
the voters will turn up to vote. Because this is not evenly distributed among
the political parties, it is likely deviate from the current distribution of
seats in the Dutch parlement. Below a table with some information. Below 'Fn.'
it shows whether the party has the firstnames of candidate listed. Below
'#seats' the information from two different prediction sources are given, where
a question mark stands for 'possibly one seat'.
Nr. Party Fn. Gen. #Can #seats
~~ ~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~
1 GROENLINKS/PvdA Yes No 20 8 7/8
2 VVD Yes Yes 28 5 4/5
3 CDA Yes Yes 27 2 1/2
4 Forum voor Democratie No No 31 ?
5 D66 Yes No 34 2 1/2
6 Partij voor de Dieren Yes No 41 ?
7 50PLUS Yes Yes 50
8 PVV Yes Yes 20 9 7/8
9 JA21 Yes Yes 15
10 NL PLAN EU Yes Yes 10
11 ChristenUnie Yes Yes 19
12 SGP Yes No 39 ?
13 BBB Yes No 21 1 1
14 Meer Directe Democratie Yes Yes 5
15 SP Yes Yes 30 1 1
16 vandeRegio Yes No 14
17 Volt Nederland Yes No 23 2 1
18 Belang van Nederland Yes Yes 12
19 NSC Yes Yes 12 1 1
20 Piratenpartij/De Groenen Yes Yes 42
Not all of the candidates have their residence in the Netherlands. There are
eight living in Belgium, which can be explained if these are current member of
the European Parlement who are willing to be reelected. There are three living
in Berlin, Germany. Furthermore there are candidates living in the Austria,
Czechia, Spain, France, and Romania. The further away candidate lives in
Bonaire, which has the
legal status of a special municipality of the Netherlands. The city where most
of the candidate are living is Amsterdam and next city is
The Hague. There is one
candidate from the Friesland village Ie and one candidate lists as living in 'Oost West en Middelbeers', which
seems to reference to Oost-, West- en Middelbeers, a municipality that ceased to exist in 1997
when it becamse part of Oirschot. There are villages called Oostbeers,
Westbeers and Middelbeers.
On the back of the sheet it mentioned that a ballot is invalid if you write or
draw something besides marking one candidate. It is true that writing or
drawing something can make a ballot can make it invalid, but this is only the
case when it could identify you as the voter. Writing the names of one of the
candidates of a politician might not make it invalid. To avoid any risk of your
vote becoming invalid is to abstain from writing or drawing anything.
Compact writing system
This morning, I read about Bliss - A constructed writing system for fast and beautiful writing on
Hacker News and it
reminded me on a compact writing system I had been working on some years ago.
Took me some time to find my notes, which turned out to be a single sheet with
some drawings and lots of numbers. The central idea of the writing systems is
that the characters touch each other and that it is kind of based on the idea
of the
seven-segment display. Each character can make use of four horizontal
lines and three vertical lines on the left. Below I made an implementation for
this in JavaScript, which shows first part
of this text but allows you experiment with it yourself.
Cliff Pickover
posted the following puzzle in a tweet:
A jar contains 10,000 cyan spheres and 10,000 orange spheres. You reach
into the jar of randomly positioned spheres and randomly remove a sphere.
If the selected sphere is cyan, you receive $100. If orange, you lose
$100. You can continue the game until all spheres are removed, and you
can stop playing whenever you wish. How would you play in this game, and
what is your expected reward?
If you play this game to the end (assuming that you have enough assets) you do
not make any profit. But you could stop earlier if your balance is possitive.
But the higher your balance the larger the surplus of orange spheres and the
more likely you draw one and your balance will drop. If you do not have enough
assets it is possible that you are forced to stop the game. The change becomes
(about) exponetially smaller the larger your assests are. With
linear
programming it is possible to calculate what is the best moment to stop
the game. I have implemented an algorithm to calculate the expected value when
you play the optimal game. (Note that the algorithm is quadratic, meaning that
the calculation takes much longer with higher values.)
Drip-drip-drip
I have decided to read Dune again focusing on the point of view Paul, probably skipping the chapters in which he does not occur. One
reason I want to do this, is to beter understand what Frank Herbert thinks
about how Paul came to choose to become the next emperor and unleash the jihad
on the known universe. Another reason is the 'The Dune in June' reading by
Arron Hook and
Shawn D. Standfast with
co-hosts: Debs,
Randy, and
Steve. It is interesting
on how each reading of the book, you notice new things. I just noticed that on
the second page of the story (page 10 in the book) it writes about how Paul has
a predictive dream: "Paul fell asleep to dream of an Arrakeen cavern, silent
people all around him moving in the dim light of glowglobes. It was solemn
there and like a cathedral as he listened to a faint sound -- the
drip-drip-drip of water." It is on page 302 that it writes: "Paul felt Chani's
hand on his arm, heard a faint dripping sound in the chill air, felt an utter
stillness come over the Fremen in the cathedral presence of water. I have
seen this place in a dream, he thought." It is immediately after this, that
Paul realizes that the Jihad can only be stopped if he, his mother and the
troop they were with would die. And although he just thought that could not let
it happen, he does nothing, "felt powerless to move," and shortly after the
left the cave he "felt that a vital moment had passed him." It almost cannot be
accidential that Frank Herbert lets Paul dream about this moment so early in
the book, almost like he wants to tell us that on that moment the future of
Paul was already set, like he could almost not escape it. This feels a bit like
the three witches in
Macbeth. Paul had this dream after having seen the reverend mother
Gaius Helen
Mohiam, which he describes as "The old woman was a witch shadow."
Some more 'Dune: Part One' first time watching reaction videos I watched in the
past weeks (usually on the back ground):
Counting ballots
In the evening, I helped counting the ballots for the 2024 European Parliament election that is being held today in the
Netherlands. The counting of the ballots started shortly after 21:00 and took
a little over two hours, far less than the last year November 22 when I helped counting the ballots for the general election
although we had less people counting. The counting went quite smooth. As far as
I have seen only one recount was needed. I did take a picture of the tentative
outcome. The ballots will be counted a second time tomorrow. The result of the
election will only be published on Sunday after the voting has finished in all
EU countries. I am not sure if I, under these circumstances, am allowed to
publish the tentative results and thus will refrain from doing so.
Into the city
I went into the city this afternoon. I first went to see the exhibition Het landschap is meer dan het laat zien... with
prints by Wil Friesen. He takes
black and white pictures from expired film roll and develops them with
Caffenol. He creates
prints on baryta paper and uses transparent oil paint to colour the black and white
prints. This results into a unique kind of prints. Next I went to the
exhibition Het Pavilioen #4 at Concordia. The exhibition is made by two
students from the AKI. Doux Yijin Zhu presented het project The Door Lock
Project, which is about alienantion (being a foreiger), privacy and
intimacy. Kyo Elbers presented her exhibition Fine Spun Beings Emerging
with works by herself and other artists who are neurodivergent. These artist are: Anniek van der Meijden, Marteijn Bouter
(with a song that he composed and sang himself and drawings that are inspired
on the song), Rudyard
Evers (with colourful paintings), Maaike
Schouten (with string art, pen and charcoal drawings), and Esmay Elise
Baan. I enjoyed both parts of the exhibition.
Mind My Mind
This afternoon, I attended the Paviljoen #4 Event Kyo
where Kyo Elbers
gave a short talk and we watched the Dutch English-language short animated
film Mind My Mind
(Archive of official website, Watch), which is about the experience of autism. The event was about the
experience of authism in and within art. I did enjoy the short film.
Afterwards, I talked with some people.
Election results
Yesterday evening at 23:00, the results for the 2024 European Parliament election were announced. This morning, I looked
at the website of Enschede to see the local results, including those for the
polling station where I helped counting the ballots. A copy of the official
report for polling station 675 (in Enschede) is the PDF: Enschede_675_Montessorischool De Wielerbaan_EP24_corrigendum_ZH.pdf. (It
does contain a correcction form although there does not seem any error in the
counting. The only reason I can think of, is because on page 11 it contains a
figure that is crossed out because it was placed in the wrong boxes.) Below a
table with all the information. The column 'polls' give the results of two
polls that were published before election day. The column 'exit' gives the
numbers of the exit poll. The colum 'results' gives the official result for the Netherlands. The column '675' gives the
number of ballots for the polling station where I helped counting and the
column 'Enschede' gives the number for the whole city.
Nr. Party polls exit result 675 Enschede
~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~
1 GROENLINKS/PvdA 8 7/8 8 8 175 10942
2 VVD 5 4/5 4 4 46 4281
3 CDA 2 1/2 3 3 38 2884
4 Forum voor Democratie ? 15 1453
5 D66 2 1/2 3 3 58 4066
6 Partij voor de Dieren ? 1 1 20 2011
7 50PLUS 4 280
8 PVV 9 7/8 7 6 70 7947
9 JA21 4 239
10 NL PLAN EU 0 66
11 ChristenUnie 21 1588
12 SGP ? 1 1 6 380
13 BBB 1 1 2 2 17 1687
14 Meer Directe Democratie 0 80
15 SP 1 1 5 1124
16 vandeRegio 0 22
17 Volt Nederland 2 1 1 2 46 3140
18 Belang van Nederland 1 185
19 NSC 1 1 1 1 80 5796
20 Piratenpartij/De Groenen 2 242
Progress on parsing Tiny C Compiler sources
In the past two weeks, I worked on parsing the Tiny C Compiler sources by writing code to generate C code from the abstract syntax tree that the parser produced. (This is part of
investigating whether the it is feasable to replace the Gnu MES Compiler that is used in live-bootstrap. While doing this, I resolved some bugs in the RawParser (see commit 2049fd02) and also made some changes to the grammar (with some specific
adaptations for the Tiny C Compiler sources). I suspect that I still need to
make some more changes to the code of Cparser.c (that commited in the
commit 71ba6f10). Also still need to compare it with the original source to
verify that it was parsed correctly into the abstract syntax tree. I have been
thinking about how to proceed from this. I could start working on:
- See if the functionality of min_tcc_preprocessor.cpp can be
implemented based on M2-Mesoplanet. I just had a look at M2-Mesoplanet/cc_marco.c and noticed that it has the function
expand_macro_functions that seems to implement macro expansion
with arguments. I do not see any support for the '##' and the '#' operator
inside macro definitions, but I think it will not be too hard to add
those.
- Make a version of RawParser.c that more specific for parsing C
based on a list of tokens like returned.
- Investigate if it is possible to compile RawParser.c and
CParser.c with m2-Mesoplanet.
- Implement an interpreter in CParser.c such that this can be used
to compile a version of the TCC with an interpreted version of TCC.
Willebrod Snellius
This evening, we watched the program Jekels Jacht: Willebrod Snellius on Dutch TV about how the Dutch
atronomer and mathematician Willebord Snellius (born Willebrod Snel van Royen) calculated the
circumference of the earth. In this series (called 'Jekels Jacht') Diederik Jekel attempts to reproduce a historic scientific experiment or
invention by Dutch scientists. It was in 1615 that Snellius performed his
calculation where he used a series of triangulations between (primarily) church
towers between the city of Alkmaar and Berg of zoom to calculate the distance
between those two cities. In 1617 he published the book Eratosthenes Batavus de terrae ambitûs vera quantitate about his
measurements. On page 219 and 220 it gives sinus tables in steps of one degree.
His measurements were made with a quadrant with a radius of 2.2 meter (Information in Dutch and English from Rijksmuseum Boerhaave) with a resolution of arc minutes (sixtieth of a
degree). For the TV program they reconstructed a quadrant of the same size and
made measurements in some fields. The program did not give details about how
the calculation was performed and also not about the sinus table. I wondered
about the origin of these tables. I found similar tables in Triangulorum geometries libri quatuor, 1631 by Philippe van Lansberge and Philippi Lansbergii Triangulorum geometriae libri quatuor (possibly the
same). I also found the PhD thesis Gemma Frisius, Tycho Brahe, and Snellius and their triangulations
(on Archive.org) by Nicolaas Dirk Hansbroek, which in great details
analyses the measurements but does not discuss the origin the sinus tables. This made me think about how to calculate these kind of
tables by hand.
Jan Cremer
Today, the Dutch author and painter Jan Cremer died, who in the Netherlands is most known for his book Ik,
Jan Cremer. I did read the book from April 14 till June 2, 2009. In 2005,
from May 27 to August 7, I read his autobiorgraphic book Wolf, which is
primarily about is youth in Enschede. In april 2009, I started reading
Brieven 1956-1996 (letters) and Jan Cremer Documentaire by Hans
Düttin, but I lost interest and never finished reading those books. Today,
I found a photograph taken by Stephen Shore of him and Nico together with John
Cale, Paul
Morrissey, and
Gerard Malanga standing before The World Theater at 153 W. 49th Street in New York, which is showing two
adults films, one of which is the film Sweet Skin (French wikipedia article) by Jacques Poitrenaud in which Nico had the lead role. There are some more
picture of Nico and Jan Cremer, among one, where he stands with her before on
of his paintings, printed on a postcard. It is said that he met her first on Ibiza and had some
relationship with her when they both stayed in New York around 1965. A picture
of Nico appeared on the cover of the book Canaille by him, but she is
only briefly mentioned in the book iteelf. Although Jan Cremer was born in
Enschede, he did not live there much of his life. There were plans for a museum
for him in Enschede. For this purpose a former buildings belonging to the
textile factory De Bamshoeve along the railroad from Enschede to Lonneker was
renovated based on a design the architecturals firms SeARCH and Rem
Koolhaas. For this the top part of the building was raised 2.5 meter and the outside was decorated with large
tiles with an image of Jan Cremer on a motorbike taken from the cover of his
book 'Ik, Jan Cremer'. However, when the renovation was finished there were not
enough funds to establish a museum. Now it houses various media companies.
Stones
Today, when checking plants on the fields at Herenboeren Usseler Es I saw a leaf that I thought had a yellow tip, but
when I checked it was actually the stone here shown on the right (in close-up).
I often take stones home because they have no purpose in the field. Technically
they are owned by the municipality of Enschede from which the land is leased. I
often find myself fidgeting with these stones. I find it interesting to find out in how many
a stone can stand stable. For this stone I have sofar found six ways it can
stand stable. In the picture it stands one of the less stable ways. For a given
3D model consisting of triangles (such as represented by the STL file format) and the point of gravity it is possible (I think) to
calculate all stable equilibria. The first step would be to calculate the
convex hull, which will
consist of collection of convex polygons. The number of stable equilibria is
equal of the number of polygons for which the projection of the point of
gravity of the plane of the polygon falls inside the polygon.
Walking route
Tomorrow, I plan to visit the Graduation Show of the KABK. Yesterday evening,
I downloaded the floor plan and figured out a walking route and wrote down the names of
the rooms with the names of the students that present their work there. (I
could not discover some logic with respect to the naming of rooms.) The route I
came up with is:
- Ground floor Prinsessegracht building (including courtyard) counter clock
wise.
- Short visit to basement.
- First floor (CCW from the stairs near the entrance)
- Second floor and one room on Third floor.
- Going to the ground floor, through the Mirror hallway to the Bleijenburg
building, first to the right, also visiting rooms at the ground floor using
the stair near room BD.007.
- Up those stair and going down again opposite the Mirror hallway. Visiting
the rooms: BA.021, BA.011, BA.013, BA.022, BA.020, BA,018, BA.0HD, BA.0HC,
BA.001, CD.002, CD,001, cross the courtyard, DS.002, B1.016, BC.004 and
BC.004.
- First floor (CCW) and visiting the Second floor after room BB.1H and then
continue with BB.105.
There are some rooms mentioned with the students that I cannot find on the map,
such as: PA.OH and PB.0GB for Balázs Milánik, BA.0GH for Ilva
Nieuwstraten, and BA.B0A Athina Georgia Koumela. This evening, I studied
the program of all the performances for tomorrow and I spend some time
figuring out which I want to see. I probably will not follow the walking route,
if also want to attend the performances. I have also agreed to meet with
someone who lives in The Hague. I have never spend so much time preparing
seeing a gradution show at the KABK.
Graduations show KABK
I went to Graduation show
2024 exhibition at
Royal
Academy of Art. Below the list of project of the graduates that I found
noteworthy, which is very subjective and often based on the first impression.
The list is in the order I encountered them according to route I planned
yesterday (with some exceptions). I noticed that my
concentration dropped and that might have biased my opinion about the projects
on display. Projects that I found extra noteworth have been marked with a star.
I had just marked the graduates on the list I had compiled, asuming that Graduation Catalogue would contain information about all the students, but
that appeared not to be the case. I have tried to make the list as completely
as possible by searching the internet.
- Shizhe Qian with Diffusion.
- Lucas Mainiere
Franco with Monument for a Moment.
- Julie Cheon with Blue emptiness
- anna andrejew with
The cloud is a
place on earth. (I took one of her posters home with me.)
- Cecilie Fang Jensen with
at the end of
the sentence, it rotted. *
- Andrea Bonderup with
In the softness
of the belly... (Video on YouTube.) *
- Paul Ramsey.
- Sonya Umanskaya.
- Herman Hondebrink with
The Other Side
of the Coin: Resisting Resource Extraction of Shimmering Industries.
- Gemma Luz Bosch with
long low slow
baden.
- Timo Bega with
Moulds in Soil.
- Akash Kumar with a Paper making
Algea and Grass workshop.
- Lou Kim with
The Iniciting
Incidnet. *
- Elke Eva Luna
Cloïn.
- Siyu Ziah Zhang with POST ZEN STUDIO
- Azul Espírito Santo.
- Lotte Roelandse with a self-build nitting machine with 3D printed parts.
- Ieva Drobenkaite with
Where flowers
grew.
- Anna Vosse Carpaij
with Empty
patterns.
- Ankie van Kasteren about being
a model. *
- Karlijn Karthaus with
Skirts with
itchy tights.
- Amy van der Hoek with
dot, line,
plane, cube.
- Miro Gutjahr with Dressing a Bulb.
- Talissa Gazeau.
- Dona Georgieva with A DOT AMONG OTHERS.
- Megan Kemp
with curled metal
bars.
- Lorenza Bassino.
- Muriël
Bakker with Visual Echoes.
- Matej Filipic.
- Abe Wientjes with long exposure photographs of him doing sculpting. *
- Nesie Junyi Wang with
Rocks, roots,
unearth.
- Davide Sartori with The shape of our eyes, other things I wouldn't know.
- Lyy Raitala with
Recess.
- Hannah Schleifer with
Gravity
Roads.
- Albina N with
I want to be as high as
dolphin on a puffer fish.
- Amapola
González with Could AI Systems Misrepresent Real Scenarios?.
- Aliona
Ciobanu.
- Loïs van Spijk with Stored energy in sync.
- Stefaniia Bodnia with Coal Mine, Land Mine and the Body of Mine. *
- Jiwon Suh.
- Jim Olijkan with
Closing Soon: Hera
Sans.
- Amber de Ronde with
Behind the
scenes.
- Gillian Bolton.
- Stijn Stumpel.
- Hara Athanasopoulou
- Dima Ibrahim Gasson with an installation that made a huming sound.
- Olivier Blom with
PerPendulum
- Rachwill Breidel with
KOIRO
performance.
- Nicole Ross.
- Heidi
Holmström with 50 Hz Conference Call
- Ester
Gašparová with I WAS THE SOURCE OF DISCORD, THE OWNER OF DISSONANCE.
- Yuzuki Aizawa with Balloon state, an installation with balloons hanging from the ceiling.
- Ilva Nieuwstraten with
Niksnut / Good
for Nothing.
- Mirco Azzopardi.
- Nika Dundua with
Invisible
Narratives.
- Graciela María
González with I was three months old when I started missing things.
- Mirre Séur with
a project.
- Malcolm Wamunza.
- Roger Anis with
Where is the Bride of
the Nile.
- Zoë Kustner.
- Nine de Wit with project consisting of six jackets that made it
possible to feel the breathing of other participants during a mediation
session. *
- Anouschka Rachel
Vreeswijk with De Restand van Morgen, a project about herbs in
The Sorgvliet Park, which belongs to Catshuis. I got a copy of the flyer of her project, which contains
a map.
- Daniel Hooglandt
with a self build 'piano' with 3D printed parts and gitar pick-up elements.
- Georgia Gavriiloglou
with Fragile
Solutions : On Displacing Design.
- Sorin Angeleanu.
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