I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Knight, Death, and the Devil
An engraved rider advances beside figures named as Death and the Devil; Dürer’s 1513 print leaves its allegory open, while examples appear in several collections.
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9 MAY 2026
Day 129
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Crowdsourcing High-Quality Human Feedback
Preference data at scale rests on ranked model outputs, careful labeler selection, and aggregation rules that turn noisy human judgments into a training signal two very different algorithms can use.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
View of Delft
Across a stretch of water, Delft sits under a sky that takes most of the canvas. Vermeer painted his home city once, at this scale, and left almost nothing else like it.
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