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The Daily Triptych049 / 365

18 FEB 2026

Day 49

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.

William Blake · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A dark grey basalt statue of a standing human figure, upright and stylised, with a large head, prominent brow, long nose, and arms at the sides, hands meeting at the abdomen.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Hoa Hakananai'a

Rapa Nui · 1000 (front); later additions (back) · Basalt

A standing figure taken from a clifftop site in 1868, its front carved smooth, its back incised later with birdman reliefs — two belief systems cut into one stone.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Batching, Throughput and Latency

Inference · Continuous batching · Throughput versus latency

A cloud API can process fifty requests for the price of ten because it batches them together. Your laptop serving only you cannot, which is why the same model feels slower.

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

A long row of villagers in black, standing around an open grave in pale earth. Clergy in white robes hold a crucifix. A white dog stands in the foreground. The sky is overcast.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Courbet's A Burial at Ornans

Gustave Courbet · 1849–50 · Oil on canvas

Courbet painted his neighbours burying someone we never see, at the scale reserved for emperors and saints. The Paris critics called it ugly, brutal and deliberately offensive.

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