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The Daily Triptych206 / 365

25 JUL 2026

Day 206

Custom is the great guide of human life.

David Hume · An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An open illuminated manuscript showing two pages of text in Latin, written in dark ink on parchment, with decorated initial letters in red, blue and gold.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Oscott Psalter

around 1200 · illuminated manuscript · British Library

A psalter made eight centuries ago, kept at a Midlands seminary college, then acquired by the British Museum and transferred to the British Library — yet the circumstances of its making remain unrecorded.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Dynamic Quantization During Serving

systems/inference · arXiv 2102.12087 (BIC resonators) · arXiv 2202.08243 (GaN HEMT gates)

Two papers on photonics and GaN contacts were supplied for a lesson on adaptive inference precision. The mismatch leaves the claimed mechanism without supportable detail.

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

A huge oil painting crowded with figures in warm reds and golds: a reclining ruler presides while people, animals and treasure are caught in violent disorder across a wide, shallow space.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Death of Sardanapalus

Eugène Delacroix · 1827 · Oil on canvas

Nearly five metres wide, Delacroix’s 1827 canvas turns an Assyrian king’s final order into warm colour, broad paint, and a room given over to ruin.

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