17 JUN 2026

Day 168

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt · Men in Dark Times

A papyrus roll with narrow vertical columns of linear hieroglyphs across the upper part and a lower band of figured scenes separated by vertical lines.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus

12th Dynasty Egypt · around 1980 BC · Papyrus

A papyrus roll from around 1980 BC holds a ceremonial play for Senusret I, written in vertical hieroglyphs above a strip of scenes arranged like successive frames.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Sliding Window Attention for Infinite Context

efficiency · sliding window attention · Longformer; RoFormer

Full self-attention grows with the square of sequence length. A sliding window keeps each token looking only nearby, so memory stays flat while the text can keep going.

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A nude woman reclines across a wide canvas, her back toward the viewer, head turned to look out. Smooth flesh, drapery and a low, dim interior; the body appears markedly elongated.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Grande Odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1810 · Oil on canvas

A long horizontal nude by Ingres, cool in surface and strange in proportion, that contemporaries read as a break from the classical body into something more exotic.

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