I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Mechanical Galleon
A brass and steel ship built in 1585 by Hans Schlottheim is both a table ornament and an automaton. It once belonged to an Elector of Saxony and now sits in the British Museum.
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3 JUN 2026
Day 154
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Centralized Critics
When several learners share an environment, each one sees a moving target. A critic that watches every agent during training can steady credit assignment without forcing them to share senses at test time.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Eleven barge haulers strain along the Volga in a long horizontal canvas. One young figure still resists his leather straps; the others have nearly given in to heat and fatigue.
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