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The Daily Triptych145 / 365

25 MAY 2026

Day 145

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War
A four-sided limestone stele, a kudurru, with surfaces given over to incised cuneiform and the compact proportions of a memorial narû.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru

Kassite Babylonia · c. 1186–1172 BC · Limestone

A limestone kudurru records a Kassite king’s gift of canal-side land to an official whose name is still uncertain — and preserves a prayer to Adad for irrigation.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Mechanistic Interpretability of Induction Heads

interpretability · IOI circuit, GPT-2 small · 2211.00593

In GPT-2 small, a handful of attention heads form a circuit that finds and copies names from earlier in the prompt—without any explicit program for the task.

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A wide panel densely filled with small figures in an outdoor village-like setting, groups engaged in odd or undignified actions, with animals and objects mixed among them.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Netherlandish Proverbs

Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1559 · Oil on oak panel

Oil on oak, painted in the 1550s, this panel turns Dutch proverbs into a single crowded scene of human absurdity, wickedness and foolishness.

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