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The Daily Triptych109 / 365

19 APR 2026

Day 109

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal · Pensées
A square block of limestone with three lines of Proto-Hebrew script carved into the centre. The stone is broken at the bottom and shows signs of wear from use or weathering. Some letters are partially visible due to the breakage but others fully intact.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Shebna Inscription

British Museum · British Museum

This is the first Hebrew inscription ever found in modern times. It might be the tomb of Shebna, King Hezekiah’s steward.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Blockwise Quantization-Aware Training

efficiency · Neural network quantisation · Blockwise QAT

Quantisation-aware training lets a network practise living with rounded weights before deployment. Doing that block by block, rather than all at once, often keeps more of the original accuracy intact.

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A young woman in three-quarter view against a dark ground, head turned to her left, holding a white ermine in the crook of her right arm so that the animal’s head faces back toward her.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Lady with an Ermine

Leonardo da Vinci · 1490 · Oil and tempera on walnut

A young woman turns in three-quarter view, a white ermine held against her chest. Leonardo painted her on walnut around 1490; the panel is now among Poland's most closely guarded pictures.

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