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The Daily Triptych160 / 365

9 JUN 2026

Day 160

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner · Requiem for a Nun
A bearded figure crouches inside a bright circle against stormy cloud, leaning forward to lower a pair of compasses into the darkness below, worked in ink on a small sheet of paper.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Ancient of Days

William Blake · 1794 · Ink on paper

Blake’s frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy shows a crouching creator with a compass. He favoured the design so much that he kept copying it, including in the last weeks of his life.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Recurrent Independent Mechanisms

architectures · 1909.10893 · modularity and sparse communication

Most recurrent nets update one shared state at every step. RIMs instead keep a set of largely independent modules and wake only the few that the current input seems to need.

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A painted portrait of a woman on a wooden panel, shown at close range against a dark ground, her face turned toward the viewer in the quiet format of a High Renaissance likeness.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

La Belle Ferronnière

Leonardo da Vinci · 1495 · Oil on panel

Painted in oil on panel around 1495, this Louvre portrait still withholds the sitter's name. Its title arrived later and has never quite settled who she was.

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