I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
A small body of verified facts fixes this work in 1375 and in the British Museum; its maker, discovery and fuller history remain unrecorded here.
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29 JUN 2026
Day 180
We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mechanistic Interpretability of Grokking
Networks trained on modular arithmetic can memorise every training pair, then—long after train loss has collapsed—suddenly generalise. Mechanistic work shows this is not magic but a shift between algorithms in weight space.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Bocca della Verità
A marble disc one and three-quarter metres across, carved as an open-mouthed face and set against a church wall in Rome, where visitors still put their hands in its mouth.
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