I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Burgon vase
Found in Athens in 1813 full of bone fragments and scarred by a pick-axe, this short black-figure jar is the earliest known Panathenaic amphora and the Burgon Group's name vase.
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29 JUL 2026
Day 210
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Optimization Theory for Adaptive Gradient Methods
Adam can fail on simple convex problems. The fix is not a larger learning rate, but a change to how the second-moment estimate is allowed to shrink over time.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Madonna Litta
A Virgin, a child, a goldfinch and two arched windows — a painting long carried under Leonardo’s name, though scholars still divide over whose hand made it.
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