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The Daily Triptych197 / 365

16 JUL 2026

Day 197

The rat that has but one hole is quickly taken.

George Herbert · Outlandish Proverbs
Worked deer skulls with antlers still attached, pale bone and antler cranial pieces altered in antiquity, shown as separate archaeological objects rather than intact animal heads.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Star Carr Frontlets

Star Carr, North Yorkshire · Bone and antlers · Archaeological artefact

A set of worked deer skulls with antlers still attached, found at a Mesolithic site in North Yorkshire and now scattered across several museums — objects that may once have been worn on the head.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Causal Abstraction via Interchange Interventions

interpretability · Interchange intervention · Causal role of neuron groups

Interchange interventions test whether a cluster of neurons tracks a human concept by replacing those activations from one input with those from another and watching what the model does next.

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

A vertical oil painting on canvas, a little over a metre high, presenting figures in a composed scene; the work dates from 1892 and is known by a title that asks when someone will marry.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

When Will You Marry?

Paul Gauguin · 1892 · Oil on canvas

Gauguin finished this canvas in 1892 and gave it a blunt question for a name. Decades on loan in Basel ended in a private sale that still shapes how the work is discussed.

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