I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Great Mongol Shahnameh
A vast Persian epic illuminated at the Ilkhanid court around 1330, later cut apart by a dealer, now scattered as single leaves across four museum collections.
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19 MAY 2026
Day 139
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Model Soups: Weight Averaging for Improved Robustness
Several fine-tuned models can be stirred into a single set of weights. The resulting soup often beats every ingredient, yet costs no more to run than one model.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Blue Boy
A boy in blue, nearly life-size, painted in oil in 1770. The canvas is famous; the person standing in it has never been settled beyond argument.
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