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The Daily Triptych118 / 365

28 APR 2026

Day 118

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
A collection of intricate bronze jewelry including pectorals with detailed designs

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Apapa Hoard

Af1930,0423.1 · Bronze

These pectorals are an early example of a tradition that would last for centuries: their story begins with an old hoard.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Sliding Window Attention for Long Sequences

efficiency · sliding window attention · Longformer; Linear Transformers

Full self-attention grows with the square of sequence length. Restrict each token to a fixed local window and the cost becomes linear — at the price of a narrower view.

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A nude woman reclines full-length on a bed of pale pillows, arms folded behind her head, looking straight out. The canvas is wide and low; the background is dark and plain.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

La maja desnuda

Francisco Goya · c. 1800 · Oil on canvas

Goya’s oil of a nude woman on a bed of pillows gives her no classical disguise and no settled name — only a steady gaze fixed on the viewer.

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