I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
The Cyrus Cylinder
A Persian king's propaganda, buried in Babylon's walls in 539 BC, was dug up in 1879 and declared a human rights charter two thousand years later.
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24 MAR 2026
Day 83
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Splitting a Model Across Machines
A single GPU cannot hold a hundred-billion-parameter model. You can split the layers, split each operation, or split the batch — and each choice makes different demands on the wire between machines.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
A Luba Lukasa Memory Board
Beads and metal pins arranged on wood, each position encoding genealogy, migration routes and sacred geography. The board does not illustrate these things — it prompts someone trained to recite them.
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