I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Lion of Knidos
A marble lion larger than life, carved in the second century BC and erected near the harbour at Knidos, then taken to London after British archaeologists saw it in 1858.
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14 AUG 2026
Day 226
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Predictive Auto-Scaling for Model Serving
Serving models under uneven traffic means deciding how much compute to hold ready. Predictive auto-scaling tries to move that decision ahead of the queue, using forecasts of request patterns rather than pure reaction.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Madonna of the Goldfinch
A goldfinch perches between the infant Christ and his cousin while Mary watches. The painting survived being broken into seventeen pieces.
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