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The Daily Triptych200 / 365

19 JUL 2026

Day 200

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot · Little Gidding
A crowded bullring scene in which a bull throws a matador, with another fallen figure, marked bulls at the right, and rulers watching from the side.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Spanish Bullfight

James Gillray · 1808 · British Museum

James Gillray’s 1808 work is presented as a bullring turned political stage, while the supplied record leaves its route into the museum largely unspoken.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Transformer Positional Encoding Alternatives

architectures · positional schemes · Transformer-XL · ALiBi

Sinusoidal position signals once seemed enough. Relative encodings and linear attention biases later showed that how position enters the model can decide whether length generalisation is possible at all.

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

A bronze beast with a lion’s snarling head and body, a goat’s head rising from the back, and a serpent for a tail, fixed in a taut, combative stance.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Chimera of Arezzo

Etruscan art · Bronze · 78.5 cm (2 ft 7 in)

A bronze body shared by lion, goat and serpent, cast so that every line still leans into a fight whose other half may be missing.

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