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The Daily Triptych169 / 365

18 JUN 2026

Day 169

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.

Donald Knuth · A=B, Foreword
A compact portrait-format woodcut print, taller than it is wide, measuring 11.4 centimetres (4 in) high and 9 centimetres (4 in) wide.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Little Passion

Albrecht Dürer · 1511 · German Renaissance

A compact 1511 print series by Albrecht Dürer gathers biblical scenes into a sequence whose modest scale asks attention to move from sheet to sheet.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Model Contamination Detection in Benchmarks

data · benchmark contamination risk · 2207.07051

A strong benchmark score can mean skill, or prior exposure to the same items. Separating those cases is difficult, and the public evidence for how to do it remains thin.

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A small bronze figure of a naked girl with short pigtails, squatting over a fountain base as if urinating, seen at close range and partly framed by protective iron bars.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Jeanneke Pis

Denis-Adrien Debouvrie · 1985 · Bronze

A fifty-five-centimetre bronze girl squats in a Brussels alley, cast as a fountain in 1985 — small, public, and set inside the city's taste for street humour.

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