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The Daily Triptych215 / 365

3 AUG 2026

Day 215

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche · Notebooks
Fragments of ancient papyrus with Greek text in dark ink, torn and incomplete, showing the scale and condition of material recovered from the Oxyrhynchus excavations.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Papyrus, parchment, paper · Oxyrhynchus, Minya Governorate · 3rd century BC to 7th century AD

Hundreds of boxes of papyrus scraps, most the size of large cornflakes, dug from a town dump in Egypt — and scholars have read fewer than one in fifty.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

State Space Models for Long Sequences

architectures · arXiv 2111.00396 · structured state spaces (S4)

Structured state-space models cast a classical dynamical system as a sequence layer that runs as a recurrence or as a convolution, with cost linear in length.

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

A large ancient marble sarcophagus densely carved in high relief with crowded figures of warriors, horses and attendant scenes along its long side, the stone still showing faint traces of old colour in places.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Alexander Sarcophagus

4th century BC · Marble · Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Carved in high relief from marble, and still holding traces of its original paint, this fourth-century sarcophagus from Sidon keeps Alexander in view while naming no one.

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