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The Daily Triptych243 / 365

31 AUG 2026

Day 243

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Cicero · De Oratore
Crowded satirical engraving of Allied leaders dressed as bakers beside a large oven, with one figure advancing holding pies and another hesitating at the oven door.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Allied Bakers

1 April 1814 · George Cruikshank · Engraving

In April 1814 George Cruikshank cast the Allies as bakers and Napoleon as a Corsican toad-in-the-hole — a kitchen satire of a war already ending.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Cleaning Web-Scale Training Data

data · filtering and deduplication · T5/C4; Lee et al. 2021

Before a language model sees the open web, automated pipelines strip toxicity, boilerplate and near-copies. The filters are blunt, the scale is vast, and what remains still shapes learning.

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

A tall dark bronze fountain sculpture in an open square, the standing figure raised high above a lower basin level where the fountain elements sit.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Havis Amanda

Ville Vallgren · 1906–1908 · Bronze

Modelled in 1906 and erected two years later, Ville Vallgren’s five-metre bronze stands at Kauppatori as both sculpture and fountain — public art made to be circled.

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