22 MAY 2026

Day 142

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

Lucretius · On the Nature of Things

A large red granite lion sculpture lying on its side with its head turned and front paws crossed, the surface bearing carved hieroglyphic inscriptions.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Prudhoe Lions

Ancient Egypt / Nubia · c. 1370 BC · Granite

Two red granite lions carved for Amenhotep III, carried south by a Kushite king, collected at Jebel Barkal by Lord Prudhoe, and given to the British Museum in 1835.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

multimodality · arXiv 2302.00923 · Language and visual tokens

A model can be asked to think in steps before it answers. Multimodal chain-of-thought extends that habit across both words and visual tokens.

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A wide night landscape: deep blue sky with scattered bright stars above a dark river. Warm lights line the far bank and drop broken yellow reflections into the water. Two small figures stand on the near shore in the lower left.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Starry Night Over the Rhone

Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · Oil on canvas

In 1888 van Gogh painted the Rhône at night from a bank near the Yellow House in Arles: a landscape of river, sky and stars, now in the Musée d'Orsay.

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