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The Daily Triptych115 / 365

25 APR 2026

Day 115

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche · Notebooks
A delicate silverpoint drawing on paper showing a young woman in three-quarter view, wearing a headscarf pinned to her hair, her gaze directed slightly away from the viewer.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Portrait of a Young Woman

Rogier van der Weyden · c. 1430–1440 · Silverpoint on paper

A woman's face drawn in silver on prepared paper, probably a study for a painted portrait now lost — one of the few surviving drawings from a painter who left almost no preparatory work.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Hindsight Experience Replay

RL · Hindsight Experience Replay · 1707.01495

Most attempts miss the goal and yield nothing to learn from. Hindsight Experience Replay keeps those trajectories by rewriting the goal to whatever actually happened.

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

A vast dark seascape. Dozens of figures crowd a low wooden raft that tilts toward the viewer; some lie dead across the planks, others strain upward as one man at the peak signals toward a faint horizon.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault · 1819 · Oil on canvas

Fifteen survivors on a raft built in haste, painted larger than life by a young artist who interviewed the living and studied the dead before he touched the canvas.

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