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The Daily Triptych109 / 365

19 APR 2026

Day 109

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal · Pensées
A fragment of stone with lines of Proto-Hebrew script carved into its surface, broken along one edge.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Shebna Inscription

Silwan, outside Jerusalem · 1870 · British Museum

A royal official carved his epitaph in stone above a tomb cut into rock. The name is missing, broken off centuries ago, but one biblical verse may identify him.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Blockwise Quantization-Aware Training

efficiency · Neural network quantisation · Blockwise QAT

Quantisation-aware training lets a network practise living with rounded weights before deployment. Doing that block by block, rather than all at once, often keeps more of the original accuracy intact.

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

A young woman in three-quarter view against a dark ground, head turned to her left, holding a white ermine in the crook of her right arm so that the animal’s head faces back toward her.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Lady with an Ermine

Leonardo da Vinci · 1490 · Oil and tempera on walnut

A young woman turns in three-quarter view, a white ermine held against her chest. Leonardo painted her on walnut around 1490; the panel is now among Poland's most closely guarded pictures.

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