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The Daily Triptych102 / 365

12 APR 2026

Day 102

Nature loves to hide.

Heraclitus · Fragments
A wooden crescent-shaped pectoral ornament with two pointed ends, carved with two compact glyphs in the rongorongo script.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Rongorongo text J

wood · British Museum · rongorongo

Two carved signs on a wooden crescent from an island whose writing no one can read — and the briefest of two dozen texts that survive from a script still locked.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Diffusion Model ODE/SDE Frameworks

architectures · reverse-time ODE and SDE · DDPM; score-based SDEs

A trained diffusion model can be sampled by running noise backwards through either a stochastic differential equation or a related ordinary one that shares the same marginal densities at every time.

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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified

A wide monochrome painting crowded with fractured figures: a bull, a gored horse with head thrown up, screaming women, a dead child, a fallen soldier and flames, set in shallow, angular space.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Guernica

Pablo Picasso · 1937 · Oil on canvas

Picasso's vast monochrome canvas holds a bull, a gored horse and screaming figures, packed across nearly eight metres of fractured space that refuses a calm centre.

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