I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Kurkh Monoliths
Two limestone stelae cut for Assyrian kings, found in 1861 at Üçtepe and given to the British Museum, preserve a battle list that may name Ahab of Israel and the Arabs.
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31 MAY 2026
Day 151
There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM)
A minimum can be sharp or flat. Sharpness-aware minimisation searches for parameters whose whole neighbourhood stays low in loss — and those solutions often generalise better than the ones ordinary gradient descent finds.
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III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
The Red Vineyard
Workers move through autumn vines in a canvas of 1888 — the one painting by van Gogh known by name to have found a buyer in his lifetime.
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