I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
I Modi
An Italian engraving in the British Museum collection carries a title surrounded by accounts of collaboration, loss, and replacement, yet the supplied record leaves much unresolved.
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10 JUN 2026
Day 161
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Features via Contrastive Loss
Two randomly altered views of one photograph are treated as a pair. A network learns to place them near each other in embedding space, and everything else farther away, without class labels.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Saint John the Baptist
A half-length saint emerges from darkness, one finger raised past the frame. Oil on panel, sixty-nine by fifty-seven centimetres, dated to 1514 and kept at the Louvre.
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