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The Daily Triptych198 / 365

17 JUL 2026

Day 198

We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey · How We Think
A small silver coin, about fifteen millimetres across, showing a seated deity on a wheeled device with wings, struck on a compact round flan.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

God on the Winged Wheel coin

Achaemenid Yehud · 4th century BC · Silver

A tiny silver coin from fourth-century Yehud shows a god seated on a winged wheel. Some read Yahweh; others see Zeus. The debate has never settled.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Quantization with Learned Rounding

efficiency · learned rounding · low-precision adaptation

Ordinary rounding is a hard cut that training cannot see through. Treat the cut as something the model can influence, and low-precision arithmetic becomes a regime the weights can adapt to rather than merely endure.

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

A landscape of low scrub and rocky ground rising toward a distant ruined abbey on the horizon, under a broad sunset sky.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Sunset at Montmajour

Vincent van Gogh · 4 July 1888 · Oil on canvas

Painted on a single day in July 1888, this landscape of scrub and abbey ruins spent a century mislabelled as a forgery before scholars finally accepted it as van Gogh’s work.

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