I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Codex Waecker-Gotter
A manuscript made in Mexico using methods and forms that reach back before Spanish contact, now held in London under a name that records three different owners.
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10 AUG 2026
Day 222
A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Neural Tangent Kernel
Make a network wide enough and gradient descent stops looking mysterious. The parameters barely move, and what remains is a fixed kernel doing linear regression on your training data.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Source
Begun in Florence around 1820 and finished in Paris in 1856, this tall canvas shows a nude holding a water jar. Two of Ingres’s students helped paint what stands behind her.
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