I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Kurkh Monoliths
A British consul dug up two carved stones in 1861. One listed an Assyrian army's enemies and named a king mentioned in the Bible but nowhere else.
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31 MAY 2026
Day 151
There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM)
A minimum can be sharp or flat. Sharpness-aware minimisation searches for parameters whose whole neighbourhood stays low in loss — and those solutions often generalise better than the ones ordinary gradient descent finds.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Red Vineyard
Workers move through autumn vines in a canvas of 1888 — the one painting by van Gogh known by name to have found a buyer in his lifetime.
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