I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Guisborough Helmet
A bronze cavalry helmet, richly worked and missing its cheek-pieces, was lifted from a gravel bed near Guisborough in 1864 — far from any known Roman site.
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1 AUG 2026
Day 213
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mixture of Experts: Sparse Routing at Scale
Most parameters in a mixture-of-experts model sit idle on any given input. Capacity grows by adding experts; cost grows mainly with how many of them actually fire.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Morning in a Pine Forest
Two painters completed one wide forest scene in 1889. Its earlier name was plainer, and a later poll placed it among the best-known pictures in Russia.
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