8 MAY 2026

Day 128

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Alfred North Whitehead · An Introduction to Mathematics

A bronze sculpture of a bearded man with closed eyes and hair falling over his forehead. The features are worn and there is no nose; this may be because it was deliberately removed.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Bronze Head of Hypnos from Civitella d'Arna

1868,0606.9 · Bronze · British Museum

This bronze head has been called a 'sleeper' and a 'mute witness.' It was made to be copied, but its origins remain mysterious.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Activation Sparsity via ReLU Pruning

efficiency · sources do not match title · 1912.00172; 2006.12436

The supplied papers concern an anisotropic S=1 chain antiferromagnet and weak measurements with negative probability, not ReLU activation sparsity or pruning.

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A white marble nun collapses backward on cloud-like forms as a youthful angel with a slender spear leans over her, set high within a chapel aedicule.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1647 · Marble

In a Roman chapel Bernini set a nun and an angel in white marble so that stone seems to fall, hover and catch light, while carved spectators watch from the side walls.

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