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The Daily Triptych242 / 365

30 AUG 2026

Day 242

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

Lucretius · On the Nature of Things
No image details have been supplied, so the treasure’s visible appearance cannot be described reliably.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Mâcon Treasure

Treasure · 1764 · Hôtel-Dieu de Mâcon

A treasure found at the Hôtel-Dieu de Mâcon in 1764, now at the British Museum, survives in the record with its makers and appearance unreported.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Active Learning: Choosing What to Label

data · active learning · BALD; BADGE

Labelled data is expensive. Active learning asks which unlabelled examples, once annotated, would move the model furthest — and answers with acquisition functions that score each candidate.

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A small freestanding figurine carved in pale ivory, presenting a compact human body shaped for the hand rather than for a wall.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Venus of Hohle Fels

Mammoth ivory · 351st century BC · Hohle Fels

Carved from mammoth ivory and found at Hohle Fels in 2008, this small sculpture belongs to the earliest age of figurative art — and still withholds its purpose.

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