1 JUN 2026

Day 152

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

John Berger · Ways of Seeing

Marble statue of a nude standing youth in frontal pose, head and torso preserved, arms and lower legs missing, hair carved in neat Archaic rows.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Strangford Apollo

Archaic Greek · c. 490 BC · Marble

A marble youth from the last years of the kouros type, arms and lower legs gone, provenance uncertain — and still a guide to how late Archaic Greek sculpture looked.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Paged Attention for Efficient Memory Management

systems/inference · KV cache management · PagedAttention

Large language models keep a growing key-value cache for every active request. PagedAttention stores that cache in fixed-size blocks scattered through memory, cutting the waste left by rigid pre-allocation.

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A sunlit street corner in Arles: a yellow two-storey house with green shutters, a pink building to the left, figures on the pavement, and an avenue running right toward railway bridges under a broad blue sky.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Yellow House

Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · Oil on canvas

A yellow façade, a pink restaurant, two railway bridges and four rented rooms: the street Van Gogh chose in 1888, set down before the household he planned for it had fully begun.

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