13 JUN 2026

Day 164

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus · The Myth of Sisyphus

A tall rectangular sheet worked in black chalk on paper, more than two metres high: a Renaissance cartoon by Michelangelo in a vertical format.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Epifania

Italian Renaissance · 1550 · Black chalk on paper

A black-chalk cartoon by Michelangelo, 232 centimetres (7 ft 7 in) high, dated to 1550: a full-scale religious design on paper now held in the British Museum.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Compositional Visual Reasoning with Neural Module Networks

multimodality · Neural Module Networks · 1511.02799

A visual question is turned into a small program. Each step is a neural module with a job — find, transform, combine — wired together only for that question.

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Outdoor miniature city at walking height: detailed model buildings, streets and towers under open sky, with full-size trees and paths running between the scaled-down landmarks.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Madurodam

Netherlands · 2 July 1952 · Public art

A miniature Netherlands laid out as public art, amusement and memorial at once — opened in 1952, scaled to one twenty-fifth life size, and still funding charity from its gates.

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