I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur’s 1853 painting is more than five metres wide: a vast canvas whose listed genres and movements resist a single, easy label.
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11 SEP 2026
Day 254
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Memorization vs. Generalization in Large Models
Long after a model has memorised every training example, it sometimes begins to generalise. That delay is called grokking, and it sharpens what “learning” is taken to mean.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Balcony
Berthe Morisot sits on a balcony between two companions; a fourth figure is half lost indoors. Manet showed the canvas once, then kept it for life.
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