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14 MAY 2026

Day 134

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

John Naisbitt · Megatrends
A life-size marble figure of a nude youth stands upright. A tree-stump support rises beside the figure’s right side, and a narrow strut connects the left arm and leg.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo

British Museum · Marble · 182 centimetres (6 ft)

Its familiar name points towards Apollo, yet the figure may also be read as an athlete. The marble preserves a question as carefully as a pose.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields

multimodality · NeRF, arXiv 2003.08934 · HyperNeRF, arXiv 2106.13228

A neural network can hold an entire three-dimensional scene as a continuous function, then render novel views by querying density and colour along camera rays — trained only on ordinary photographs.

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Three figures stacked closely on a panel: an older woman seated high behind a younger woman who leans forward toward a child reaching for a lamb.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Leonardo da Vinci · 16th century · Oil on poplar panel

Leonardo painted Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child in oil on poplar. The child reaches for a lamb; the work remained unfinished. It hangs in the Louvre.

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