I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Library of Ashurbanipal
More than thirty thousand clay tablets and fragments from seventh-century Nineveh — the working library of an Assyrian king, dug from the ruins in the mid-nineteenth century.
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27 JUL 2026
Day 208
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
History: The 2012 AlexNet Revolution
In 2012 a deep convolutional network won ImageNet by 10.8 percentage points. The size of that margin, more than the win alone, forced the field to reconsider depth at scale.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Annunciation
A panel more than twice as wide as it is high holds the Annunciation in oil: angel, virgin, and a stretch of ground that forces the eye to travel the full length.
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