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The Daily Triptych235 / 365

23 AUG 2026

Day 235

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance
A large standing marble sculpture of the god Apollo, recorded at 229 centimetres (7 ft 6 in) in height, of second-century date, displayed as a museum object.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Apollo of Cyrene

Roman · 2nd century · Marble

A marble Apollo more than two metres high, unearthed at Cyrene in Libya and presented to the British Museum in 1861 with a large group of other finds.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Trojans and Backdoors: Models with Hidden Triggers

alignment/safety · trigger backdoors · arXiv 1902.09711, 2004.04692

A compromised model can look ordinary on every normal input, then change course when a specific pattern appears. Detecting that split behaviour is harder than it first sounds.

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

A wedding ceremony in a paved plaza. A priest joins the hands of a woman in red and blue and a bearded man in orange. Figures in Renaissance dress stand on either side. Behind them, a circular domed temple recedes into the distance.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Marriage of the Virgin

Raphael · 1504 · Oil on panel

A twenty-one-year-old painter arranges fifteen figures around a single gesture — the placing of a ring — and builds behind them a temple that has never existed.

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