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The Daily Triptych061 / 365

2 MAR 2026

Day 61

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce · Ulysses
A collection of small cast gold objects: geometric weights, miniature figurative forms including animals and tools, and larger ornamental pieces, displayed against a neutral background.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Asante Goldwork

Asante Empire · 17th–19th century · Cast gold

Gold worked into weights, jewellery and ritual objects by Asante craftsmen — much of it seized when British forces burnt the capital in 1874, now held far from where it was made.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Fine-Tune, Prompt, or Retrieve

Training and alignment · Knowledge integration · Zero to tens of thousands of dollars

Most people fine-tune when they should prompt, and prompt when they should retrieve. Each method has different costs, different latencies, and different failure modes that matter more than the marketing suggests.

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

A pale limestone mountain ridge rising against a blue sky, with green and ochre fields and dark pines in the foreground, all rendered in distinct patches of colour without blended edges.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne · 1882–1906 · Oil on canvas

Cézanne returned to the same limestone ridge year after year, breaking it down into planes that describe volume without drawing a single edge. The hinge between Impressionism and Cubism.

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