15 MAY 2026

Day 135

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance

A monumental brown quartzite head of a pharaoh, broken at the neck, with full lips, a broad nose and the remains of a nemes headdress, displayed upright against a plain background.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III

Ancient Egypt · 14th century BC · Quartzite

Only the head remains of a quartzite colossus that once stood over eight metres high in Amenhotep III's mortuary temple, one of a paired series flanking a courtyard.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Mixture of Experts Routing

architectures · Shazeer et al. 2017; Fedus et al. 2021 · sparse top-k expert routing

Most of a model’s parameters can sit idle on any given token. A small gate decides which specialists wake up, so capacity grows faster than the compute bill.

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A large multi-panel altarpiece open to show a upper row of sacred figures and angels and a lower crowded meadow where groups gather around a Lamb on an altar beneath a dove.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Ghent Altarpiece

Hubert and Jan van Eyck · 1432 · Oil on oak panel

Twelve oak panels, painted in oil front and back, fold into two quite different worlds: a quiet Annunciation in grisaille, and a crowded meadow under the Lamb.

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