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The Daily Triptych077 / 365

18 MAR 2026

Day 77

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams · Mostly Harmless
A painted manuscript folio showing figures in rich garments arranged in tiers across an architectural setting, with patterned tiles and textiles rendered as flat decorative fields and no single vanishing point governing the space.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

A Folio from the Shahnameh

Safavid Persian · 977–1010 CE · early modern

Persian painters stacked figures up the page and laid tiles flat. The pictorial logic was deliberate: it let a single surface hold what happened across time and space.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Unified Memory

Hardware and local inference · Apple Silicon M-series and later · Shared address space between CPU and GPU

A MacBook with 192 GB of RAM can load a model that would not fit on any consumer graphics card — because the GPU and CPU share the same physical memory.

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

A large canvas filled with swirling, overlapping abstract forms in intense colours — reds, blues, yellows, purples, greens — crossed by dark and light lines. A dark oval shape sits off-centre, surrounded by turbulent motion.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Kandinsky's Composition VII

Wassily Kandinsky · 1913 · Oil on canvas

Kandinsky spent months preparing what he later called the most complex painting he had made. The swirling forms were not improvised — they were planned.

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