I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Townley Caryatid
A marble woman who once held up a roof beside the Appian Way, carved in the second century in an Athenian style, then collected for a London house.
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5 AUG 2026
Day 217
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Progressive Growing of GANs
High-resolution GANs were once brittle to train. One approach begins at a few pixels a side and adds layers to both networks only as the image grows larger and sharper.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Mourners fill the lower half; a celestial assembly occupies the upper. El Greco’s vast canvas in Santo Tomé keeps both worlds inside a single continuous space.
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