6 JUN 2026

Day 157

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

John Ruskin · The Two Paths

A marble nude mythological figure, identified by the work’s title as Venus; the supplied record does not establish further image details.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Crouching Venus

British Museum collection · 250 BC · Marble

A marble nude made in the Hellenistic tradition, attributed to Doidalsa, carries an ancient subject into a present shaped by uncertain object histories.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Activation Compression via Quantized Training

efficiency · activation quantisation · training and inference

Activations, not only weights, dominate memory movement in training. Quantising them to low-bit integers cuts that traffic — when the model is trained to live with the precision loss.

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A dark circular basalt disk densely carved with a large central face and successive rings of figures and signs, shown flat and filling the frame.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Aztec sun stone

Mexica · 16th century · Basalt

Carved by the Mexica from basalt in the sixteenth century, this disk is 358 centimetres (11 ft 9 in) across. It has stood in a cathedral and a museum; its original purpose is less certain.

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