I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Anjou Legendarium
More than 140 pages of saints' lives painted for a Hungarian prince, then broken apart and divided between the Vatican, the Morgan Library, Paris and the Hermitage.
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6 SEP 2026
Day 249
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mechanistic Interpretability of In-Context Learning
Some transformers appear to run a learning algorithm inside a single forward pass. Work on linear models asks which algorithm that is, and how much of it can be read out of the weights.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Sea of Ice
Slab upon slab of ice rises in a jagged tower, a ship crushed beneath it. Friedrich never saw the Arctic; the wreck is almost the least of what the painting shows.
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