20 MAY 2026

Day 140

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius · Meditations

A print on paper depicting the title’s sudden shower, Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake; no further visual description is supplied.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake

Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857 · print, ink and paper

A print on paper, made with ink in 1857, condenses a named place, a bridge and weather into an image whose particulars remain worth looking for.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Manifold Mixup for Better Representations

training · Manifold Mixup (arXiv 1806.05236) · MixMatch (arXiv 1905.02249)

Ordinary mixup blends raw examples. Manifold Mixup also blends the network’s internal activations, pushing decision boundaries to stay smooth deeper in the model.

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A wide café interior at night: a billiard table stands in the middle of the floor, figures sit at tables along the walls, lamps hang from above, and a solitary figure stands near the table in the open space.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Night Café

Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · Oil on canvas

In a small Arles café, van Gogh set down the room after dark. The title is written on the canvas itself; the picture later travelled from a Russian collection to Yale.

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