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12 JUL 2026

Day 193

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Henri Poincaré · Science and Method
Fragments of a limestone stela inscribed with eleven lines of Punic script, angular letters reading right to left, carved into the pale stone surface.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Carthage Tariff

Carthaginian · Third century BCE · Limestone

A price list in stone, spelling out what the priests keep and what the worshipper takes home — discovered among the ruins of Carthage in the 1850s.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Model Parallelism with Pipeline Bubbles

systems/inference · pipeline parallelism · GPipe (arXiv:1811.06965)

Splitting a network across accelerators leaves gaps where hardware sits empty. Micro-batches and careful scheduling shrink those gaps without changing the mathematics of training.

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

Two adjoining brick house fronts with shuttered windows and an alley between them; small figures sit and work in a doorway and passage, with children on the lower steps.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Little Street

Johannes Vermeer · 1658 · Oil on canvas

Two house fronts, an alley and a handful of figures at their work. Vermeer gives almost no street and almost all wall — and the ordinary becomes the whole subject.

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