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The Daily Triptych167 / 365

16 JUN 2026

Day 167

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt · Crises of the Republic
Blocks of light marble frieze carved in low relief with processional human figures and animals, shown as detached architectural segments rather than on a temple wall.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Parthenon Frieze

Ancient Greece · c. 444–440 BC · Marble

Marble carved for the Parthenon under Phidias, later stripped from the building and divided between museums — still contested, still central to how classical sculpture is read.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Causal Abstraction for Model Verification

interpretability · arXiv 2105.14149 Log2NS · arXiv 2206.15439 middle graphs

The lesson title points at neural verification by causal abstraction. The only sources provided address log analysis bias and graph domination numbers instead.

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

Large nearly square panel in brownish monochrome: a seated woman with a child at the centre, surrounded by crowded kneeling and standing figures, with lighter architectural forms and open space above.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Adoration of the Magi

Leonardo da Vinci · 1482 · Charcoal, ink, watercolour

A panel nearly two and a half metres square, stopped in charcoal, ink and watercolour: Leonardo’s Adoration, left before the paint ever arrived.

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