I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
The Queen's Lyre
Ten women were buried in a tomb at Ur, one with her hand on the strings. The wood rotted, the gold survived, and the instrument was poured out in plaster.
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11 JAN 2026
Day 11
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Self-Supervised Learning
No one labelled the internet. Self-supervised learning removed the bottleneck by turning prediction into the task itself — hide a word, guess the word, adjust.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes
Giotto painted mourners with their backs turned, bodies that have weight, grief that reads across a room. What looks ordinary now had not been painted before.
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