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The Daily Triptych184 / 365

3 JUL 2026

Day 184

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis · Epigrams on Programming
No visual description of the three printed sheets is supplied in the available facts; the work is identified as a triptych.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Hari-shigoto

Kitagawa Utamaro · Triptych · bijin-ga; ukiyo-e; nishiki-e

Hari-shigoto survives in museum records as a triptych by Kitagawa Utamaro, divided between two collections and identified through several inventory numbers.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Mixture Density Networks for Uncertainty

training · mixture density outputs · arXiv:1308.0850

When a target can legitimately take several forms, a single predicted point collapses them. A mixture density network outputs distribution parameters and can keep more than one mode alive.

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A man and a woman stand close against a dark ground. He rests a hand on her bodice; she places her hand over his. Both wear richly worked clothing, the sleeves and fabric painted thickly.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Jewish Bride

Rembrandt · 1667 · Oil on canvas

A man and a woman stand close in late Rembrandt paint. The nineteenth century named them a Jewish bride and her father; that reading no longer holds, and little else has settled.

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