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The Daily Triptych116 / 365

26 APR 2026

Day 116

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche · Twilight of the Idols
A circular silver disc brooch whose design is picked out in dark niello against the lighter metal.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Strickland Brooch

Anglo-Saxon · Mid 9th century · Silver and niello

A silver and niello disc brooch from mid-ninth-century Anglo-Saxon England, now in the British Museum, whose findspot is unknown and whose maker is unnamed.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM)

evaluation · Holistic Evaluation of Language Models · arXiv:2211.09110

Accuracy alone never told the whole story. HELM treats evaluation as a map of scenarios, metrics and risks, kept current as models and uses keep changing.

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A wide outdoor gathering of men crowded around a low table. One figure writes while others lean in laughing, smoking and gesturing; heads and shoulders fill the upper half of the canvas.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Ilya Repin · 1890 · Oil on canvas

Cossacks crowd a rough table to draft an insult. Repin spent years arranging the joke so that every face seems to have just heard the line.

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