I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
crystal skull
A life-sized crystal skull entered the British Museum as a Mexican antiquity. Study later placed its making in the nineteenth century, almost certainly in Europe.
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3 MAY 2026
Day 123
He who by reviewing the old can gain knowledge of the new is fit to be a teacher.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Audio-Visual Contrastive Learning
Picture and soundtrack from the same video can be pulled together in a shared space, so sight and sound become comparable without labelled pairs.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Wheatfield with Crows
Three paths fork into a field beneath a sky of churning paint. Van Gogh built this landscape in July 1890, and for decades people wrongly believed it was his last work.
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