I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Lingwell Gate coin moulds
A scatter of clay moulds dug up near Wakefield over nearly two centuries, used not for minting official coin but for copying it — and still held across four British collections.
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24 JUL 2026
Day 205
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sparse Autoencoders for Dictionary Learning
Neural networks pack many concepts into each neuron. Sparse autoencoders attempt to unpack those activations into a larger set of features that fire more cleanly and can be read more directly.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Baptism of Christ
A workshop Baptism in oil on panel, made under Verrocchio, with an angel and landscape passages now widely given to the young Leonardo.
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