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The Daily Triptych127 / 365

7 MAY 2026

Day 127

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

William James · The Principles of Psychology
A small recumbent granite sphinx with a lion’s body and a human head bearing full Kushite royal features, the stone a sandy grey, hieroglyphs visible on the surface.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Sphinx of Taharqo

Kushite / 25th Dynasty Egypt · Granite · 1932,0611.1

A small granite sphinx in London wears the face of Taharqo, a Nubian king who ruled Egypt: Egyptian lion body, Kushite features, and his name in hieroglyphs.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Causal Mediation Analysis in Neural Networks

interpretability · Direct and indirect pathways · Causal mediation

A model’s answer can travel more than one route at once. Causal mediation tries to separate the path that runs through a chosen internal part from the path that does not.

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A nude woman reclines on white bedding across a wide canvas, looking straight out; a fully dressed Black maid stands beside her in a shallow interior.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Olympia

Édouard Manet · 1863 · Oil on canvas

A reclining woman, a maid, a bed: Manet’s 1863 canvas entered the Paris Salon two years later and turned a familiar genre into a public quarrel.

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