I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Crouching Venus
A marble nude made in the Hellenistic tradition, attributed to Doidalsa, carries an ancient subject into a present shaped by uncertain object histories.
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6 JUN 2026
Day 157
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Activation Compression via Quantized Training
Activations, not only weights, dominate memory movement in training. Quantising them to low-bit integers cuts that traffic — when the model is trained to live with the precision loss.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Aztec sun stone
Carved by the Mexica from basalt in the sixteenth century, this disk is 358 centimetres (11 ft 9 in) across. It has stood in a cathedral and a museum; its original purpose is less certain.
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