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The Daily Triptych103 / 365

13 APR 2026

Day 103

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras · Plato, Theaetetus
A wooden tablet from the rongorongo corpus, known as text K or the Small London tablet, held in the British Museum.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Rongorongo text K

Wood · British Museum · Text; tablet

Known as the Small London tablet, Rongorongo text K is a wooden tablet in the British Museum. It nearly duplicates another of the two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Sparse Mixture of Experts Routing

architectures · Shazeer et al.; GShard · Sparse top-k expert gating

Instead of every parameter firing for every token, a gate picks a handful of specialist blocks. Capacity grows; the compute bill does not grow with it.

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

A bare-breasted woman in a Phrygian cap strides over a barricade and fallen bodies, tricolour raised in one hand and a bayonetted musket in the other, leading a mixed crowd that includes a boy with two pistols.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix · 1830 · Oil on canvas

A bare-breasted figure climbs a barricade with the tricolour raised, leading a mixed crowd over the bodies of the fallen — Delacroix's painting of the July Revolution of 1830.

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