16 APR 2026

Day 106

Custom is the great guide of human life.

David Hume · An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Gold torc objects recorded with a diameter of 130.7 millimetres (5.15 in).

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Orense Torcs

British Museum · 4th century BC · gold

Two gold torcs, dated to the fourth century BC, entered the record after a 1950 discovery in Ourense; their maker and original setting remain unrecorded.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with MuZero

Reinforcement learning · arXiv 1911.08265 · Learned model for planning

MuZero plans ahead without being told the rules. It learns a compact internal model that predicts only what search needs: reward, value and the next policy.

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A dark interior where five people sit around a small table under a hanging lamp, handling cups and a dish of potatoes; faces and hands catch the light while the walls stay deep in shadow.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Potato Eaters

Vincent van Gogh · 1885 · Oil on canvas

Five figures sit around a table in a dim room, eating potatoes. Painted in oil in 1885, the canvas is now in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

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