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The Daily Triptych126 / 365

6 MAY 2026

Day 126

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

Simone Weil · Gravity and Grace
A circular ceramic plate painted with three figures: two standing warriors with spears and shields facing each other across a horizontal body on the ground, with painted letters labelling each figure.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Euphorbos plate

Ancient Greece · around 600 BC · ceramic

Two warriors face each other across a corpse, their names written beside them in letters seven hundred years older than anything Rome would build.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

TruthfulQA: Measuring Truthfulness

evaluation · arXiv:2109.07958 · imitative falsehoods

Models can sound fluent while repeating popular misconceptions. TruthfulQA asks questions built to catch that habit, scoring whether an answer is true rather than merely plausible.

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

A bronze she-wolf stands in profile, legs planted and mouth open, while two small infant boys sit beneath her belly reaching up to suckle.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Capitoline Wolf

Bronze · 6th century BC (disputed) · Capitoline Museums

A bronze wolf stands over two suckling infants. Long classed as Etruscan with later twins, it has been redated, contested, and still refuses a single settled origin.

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