I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
The Gweagal Shield
A shield with a puncture through it, held in London, attributed to the moment Cook's party landed. The hole's cause, the shield's origin, and its rightful home are all disputed.
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28 FEB 2026
Day 59
It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Training Against Written Principles
Write down your principles as a numbered list, then ask the model to criticise its own drafts against them. The revised outputs become training data, and no human needs to label thousands of examples.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Van Gogh's The Starry Night
Van Gogh painted the view from his window at Saint-Rémy, then replaced the landscape below with a village he invented. The swirling sky above it was worked in paint thick enough to cast shadows.
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