I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Mathura lion capital
Two lions back to back, a Buddhist emblem between them, and a Prakrit text naming queens, satraps and a stupa — all on one capital from early first-century Mathura.
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28 MAY 2026
Day 148
To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Deep Learning Hardware Revolution
The supplied record names Adam and a cutting-plane method for Bayesian networks. Neither paper, on the evidence given here, describes GPUs, ReLUs, or dropout.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Saturn Devouring His Son
Goya painted a giant figure tearing at a body on the wall of his own house. No title, no notes, no public. The image now hangs in the Prado, and what it shows remains disputed.
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