I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Bossall-Flaxton hoard
Silver jewellery, hacksilver and some two hundred and seventy coins, buried in the early tenth century between two North Yorkshire villages and later split between two museums.
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18 JUL 2026
Day 199
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Data Valuation with Shapley Values
Shapley values from game theory can score every training example by how much it moves performance when added to every possible subset of the rest of the data.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Blue Boy
A boy in blue, nearly life-size, painted in oil in 1770. The canvas is famous; the person standing in it has never been settled beyond argument.
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