I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Olduvai Handaxe
A stone worked symmetrically on both faces, held and struck by hands anatomically like yours, but separated from you by more than a million years of time.
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16 JAN 2026
Day 16
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Turning Text Into Numbers
A neural network processes numbers, not letters. The first problem is therefore not understanding language but representing it in a form the network can accept at all.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Olmec Colossal Heads
The Olmec moved boulders weighing up to forty-five tonnes across a hundred kilometres of forest and swamp, then carved them into heads with individual faces. At least two were thrones first.
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