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The Daily Triptych158 / 365

7 JUN 2026

Day 158

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso · Interview, 1923
A pale marble statue of a nude youth standing with both arms raised as if tying a narrow band around his head, weight shifted onto one leg in a balanced athletic pose.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Farnese Diadumenos

Roman · 1st–2nd century AD · Marble

A marble youth once in the Farnese Collection, long linked to Polykleitos’s lost Diadumenos — yet it diverges from that famous type in ways that still unsettle easy attribution.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Deduplication of Massive Training Datasets

data · Near-duplicate removal · arXiv:2107.06499

Web-scale text is thick with near-copies. Stripping them out before training cuts wasted computation, sharpens evaluation, and makes models less likely to regurgitate training passages verbatim.

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

A small bronze horse stands before a large round disk finished with gold, the pair mounted on a low carriage with spoked wheels.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Trundholm Sun Chariot

c. 1400 BC · Bronze and gold · National Museum of Denmark

A bronze horse draws a gold-faced disk on spoked wheels, buried alone in a peat bog and recovered in 1902 as the sun made mobile.

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