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The Daily Triptych064 / 365

5 MAR 2026

Day 64

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus · The Myth of Sisyphus
A collection of silver coins, arm-rings, and ingots displayed alongside a decorated gilt silver cup, all items tarnished dark grey with patches of lighter metal showing through.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Vale of York Hoard

Anglo-Scandinavian · 10th century · Silver

Six hundred and seventeen silver coins, dozens of arm-rings and ingots, packed into a decorated cup and buried in a field — the contents came from four continents.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Chain of Thought

Reasoning and architecture · 2022, Wei et al. and Kojima et al. · Prompting technique

Ask a model to solve a problem in one leap and it often fails. Ask it to show its working, and accuracy can double — though the steps may not be the actual computation.

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

A tall pyramidal tower of granite rising in thirteen diminishing tiers, with carved niches and a large capstone at the summit, standing against a clear sky.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur

Chola · 1010 · Granite

Rajaraja I built a temple in 1010 from stone that had to be carried from quarries forty kilometres away. The walls record every donor who paid for it.

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