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26 AUG 2026

Day 238

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

Epictetus · Enchiridion
A seated marble figure, missing both arms below the shoulder, draped in carved cloth that falls in folds across the lap and legs. The head is intact, facing forward, with a calm expression.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Demeter of Knidos

Ancient Greek · 350 BC · Marble

A marble woman sits in silence, larger than life, carved for a temple near an ancient port. She was buried deliberately, face down, and stayed underground for two thousand years.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Probing for Linguistic Knowledge

interpretability · edge probing and control tasks · 1905.05950; 1909.03368

Simple classifiers trained on frozen model layers can reveal which linguistic structures a network has already encoded, without ever updating the model itself.

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

Half-length figure of a young man presented as Bacchus, modelled in strong light against deep shadow on a small upright canvas.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Self-Portrait as Bacchus

Caravaggio · 1595 · Oil on canvas

A small oil on canvas in the Galleria Borghese shows the painter as Bacchus. Made with a mirror, it folds self-portrait, myth and sickness into one cabinet piece.

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