28 MAY 2026

Day 148

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower.

William Blake · Auguries of Innocence

A sandstone capital carved as two lions back to back, their bodies dense with small incised lettering, a Buddhist triratana emblem set between them at the centre.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Mathura lion capital

Indo-Scythian · c. 1–10 CE · Sandstone

Two lions back to back, a Buddhist emblem between them, and a Prakrit text naming queens, satraps and a stupa — all on one capital from early first-century Mathura.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The Deep Learning Hardware Revolution

history · history · arXiv 1202.3713; 1412.6980

The supplied record names Adam and a cutting-plane method for Bayesian networks. Neither paper, on the evidence given here, describes GPUs, ReLUs, or dropout.

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A tall, dark painting of a wide-eyed naked giant gripping a pale, incomplete human body and biting into it. Little setting is visible beyond the black ground.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Saturn Devouring His Son

Francisco Goya · c. 1819–1820 · Mixed technique, mural on canvas

Goya painted a giant figure tearing at a body on the wall of his own house. No title, no notes, no public. The image now hangs in the Prado, and what it shows remains disputed.

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