Skip to content
The Daily Triptych135 / 365

15 MAY 2026

Day 135

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance
A monumental brown quartzite head of a pharaoh, broken at the neck, with full lips, a broad nose and the remains of a nemes headdress, displayed upright against a plain background.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III

Ancient Egypt · 14th century BC · Quartzite

Only the head remains of a quartzite colossus that once stood over eight metres high in Amenhotep III's mortuary temple, one of a paired series flanking a courtyard.

Enter lesson 6 MIN

II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Mixture of Experts Routing

architectures · Shazeer et al. 2017; Fedus et al. 2021 · sparse top-k expert routing

Most of a model’s parameters can sit idle on any given token. A small gate decides which specialists wake up, so capacity grows faster than the compute bill.

Enter lesson 6 MIN

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

A large multi-panel altarpiece open to show a upper row of sacred figures and angels and a lower crowded meadow where groups gather around a Lamb on an altar beneath a dove.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Ghent Altarpiece

Hubert and Jan van Eyck · 1432 · Oil on oak panel

Twelve oak panels, painted in oil front and back, fold into two quite different worlds: a quiet Annunciation in grisaille, and a crowded meadow under the Lamb.

Enter lesson 7 MIN

The daily email

Four lessons in your inbox, every morning at seven.

One object, one idea, one masterpiece, one game. Deep links to that day’s pages. Unsubscribe with one click, any time.