I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
The Ancient of Days
Blake’s frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy shows a crouching creator with a compass. He favoured the design so much that he kept copying it, including in the last weeks of his life.
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9 JUN 2026
Day 160
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Recurrent Independent Mechanisms
Most recurrent nets update one shared state at every step. RIMs instead keep a set of largely independent modules and wake only the few that the current input seems to need.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
La Belle Ferronnière
Painted in oil on panel around 1495, this Louvre portrait still withholds the sitter's name. Its title arrived later and has never quite settled who she was.
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