25 MAR 2026
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Solid gold, enamelled in translucent red that still catches light from beneath. Made for one royal family, it spent centuries moving between French, English and Spanish hands as gift, prize and inheritance.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A single graphics card cannot hold a seventy-billion-parameter model. But three older ones, linked over Ethernet, sometimes can — if you are willing to wait between words.
Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Indigenous scholars recorded their own culture under Spanish supervision in 1575, setting Nahuatl text beside Spanish translation in parallel columns. The columns do not always agree.
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