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The Daily Triptych246 / 365

3 SEP 2026

Day 246

In the succession of generations the conditions and institutions of the world change.

Ibn Khaldun · The Muqaddimah
A life-sized marble statue of a faun, shown as a complete standing figure with an ancient torso said to have been supplemented by later sculptural additions.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Rondanini Faun

British Museum · François Duquesnoy · Marble

A 175-centimetre marble statue in the British Museum, made by François Duquesnoy, brings an old question into view: can a restored figure have one author?

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Vision-Transformer Hybrid Architectures

architectures · Swin Transformer (arXiv:2103.14030) · shifted-window self-attention

Global attention scales poorly on images. Swin keeps self-attention, confines it to shifted windows, and builds multi-scale features—borrowing convolutional habits without becoming a CNN.

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

A bronze figure of a soldier in Red Army uniform, head bowed, standing before a pale stone wall.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Bronze Soldier of Tallinn

Enn Roos · 1947 · Bronze and dolomite

Enn Roos made a two-metre figure in Red Army uniform for a burial site in Tallinn. Sixty years later, moving it to a different cemetery started riots.

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