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2 MAY 2026

Day 122

A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet.

Laozi · Tao Te Ching
Worked gold, silver and ivory from a hoard, including small gold pieces formed as human faces, linked to the Ziwiye find near Saqqez.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Ziwiye

Hoard · Iran · 1947

Gold, silver and ivory objects, some shaped as human faces, were uncovered outside a castle near Saqqez in 1947 and entered the British Museum as one hoard.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Orca: System for Distributed Inference

systems/inference · multi-model pipelines · arXiv 2303.04671

One conversational front end is not enough when the task needs seeing, drawing and revising. Visual ChatGPT chains separate visual foundation models into a single dialogue.

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

A tall freestanding column in open parkland, broad at the base and rising through stacked stone drums to a gilded bronze figure at the summit.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Siegessäule

1873 · Tiergarten, Berlin · Granite, sandstone, marble, bronze

Four sculptors, four materials and a sixty-seven-metre shaft of masonry and bronze, set up in the Tiergarten as a public claim of victory.

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