I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru
A limestone kudurru records a Kassite king’s gift of canal-side land to an official whose name is still uncertain — and preserves a prayer to Adad for irrigation.
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25 MAY 2026
Day 145
The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mechanistic Interpretability of Induction Heads
In GPT-2 small, a handful of attention heads form a circuit that finds and copies names from earlier in the prompt—without any explicit program for the task.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Netherlandish Proverbs
Oil on oak, painted in the 1550s, this panel turns Dutch proverbs into a single crowded scene of human absurdity, wickedness and foolishness.
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