22 JUN 2026

Day 173

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die.

Max Planck · Scientific Autobiography

A wide woodcut of a conical mountain under open sky, its slopes washed in warm red above a darker band of ground, with little else in the frame.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Fine Wind, Clear Morning

Katsushika Hokusai · 1830 · Woodcut print

A woodcut of Mount Fuji from 1830 by Katsushika Hokusai: slope, sky and a wash of colour that earned the print its other name, Red Fuji.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Sparse Mixture of Experts Inference Routing

architectures · Switch Transformers · sparse MoE inference routing

A model can hold vast numbers of parameters yet activate only a fraction for each token, if a learned gate sends that token to the right expert and leaves the rest idle.

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A dim interior. Men in contemporary dress cluster at a table with coins while two standing figures enter from the right, one extending a hand. A shaft of light cuts across the group beneath a dark upper wall and a high window.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio · 1609 · Oil on canvas

In a Roman chapel Caravaggio sets the call of Matthew at a plain table: coin-counters interrupted, two figures arriving, and a shaft of light that carries most of the meaning.

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