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5 JUN 2026

Day 156

You must change your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke · Archaic Torso of Apollo
A small prehistoric gold cup with a rounded base and a single handle, shown as a thin-walled beaten vessel whose curved underside prevents it from standing upright alone.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Ringlemere Cup

Bronze Age Britain · c. 1700–1500 BC · Gold

A gold cup found under a Kent barrow in 2001 joins a thin European group of unstable handled vessels and a Channel-facing pattern of contact.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Benchmarking Hallucination in Language Models

evaluation · Hallucination benchmarks · NLG survey; self-knowledge

Models can produce polished prose that is simply wrong. Benchmarks try to catch that tendency systematically — not by ear, but by comparing what is generated against sources, facts, and the model's own uncertainty.

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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified

Two standing full-size bronze male warriors, both bearded, one younger in build and one more mature, shown as separate figures.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Riace bronzes

Ancient Greece · c. 460 BC · Bronze

Two full-size bronze warriors, cast around 460 BC, lay on the seabed off Riace until 1972. Almost nothing else of their kind survives intact.

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