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The Daily Triptych162 / 365

11 JUN 2026

Day 162

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Jorge Luis Borges · The Library of Babel
A short cape of solid gold sheet, formed to cover the shoulders and upper chest, displayed as a rigid curved garment.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Mold gold cape

Gold · British Museum · 11 October 1833

A solid sheet-gold cape, found on a skeleton in a Flintshire burial mound in 1833, survives as rare evidence of Bronze Age ceremonial dress in Britain.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AdaFactor: Adaptive Learning Rates with Sublinear Memory

optimization · arXiv 1804.04235 · sublinear memory

AdaFactor keeps adaptive learning rates for massive models by approximating second-order moments, so the optimizer need not store a full moving average of squared gradients.

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A green landscape under a stormy sky with a flash of lightning. At left a standing man in dark clothes; at right a seated nude woman nursing a child beside a stream, with buildings in the middle distance.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Tempest

Giorgione · 1506 · Oil on canvas

A storm builds over ruined walls and still water. A man stands apart; a woman nurses a child. Painted in 1506, the scene has never settled what it is for.

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