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The Daily Triptych091 / 365

1 APR 2026

Day 91

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein · Physics and Reality
A high-backed chair constructed from welded rifle components: wooden stocks form the seat and back, metal barrels curve into arms and legs, and trigger mechanisms are visible in the joints.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Throne of Weapons

Cristóvão Canhavato · 2002 · Decommissioned weapons

Cristóvão Canhavato welded this chair from guns handed in after the war ended. It sits in a collection built largely on objects taken without consent — a deliberate exception.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Agents

Systems and judgement · Observe–decide–act loop with language model at the core · ReAct (Yao et al., 2022)

An agent is not smarter than the model inside it. It just gets more chances to fail — or correct itself — because the loop runs again after every action.

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

A painted cotton folio showing figures in a landscape with tilted ground, flat architectural tilework, and a receding European-style landscape at the top edge.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

A Folio from the Hamzanama

Mughal Empire · 1562–c. 1577 · Opaque watercolour on cotton

Akbar commissioned a hundred artists to illustrate the adventures of Muhammad's uncle on cloth tall enough to be held up and read aloud to a crowd.

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