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The Daily Triptych185 / 365

4 JUL 2026

Day 185

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein · Attributed, after On the Method of Theoretical Physics
A small rectangular sheet, a drawing in ink on paper, recorded as an allegory of abundance and held in the British Museum.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Allegory of Abundance

Renaissance · 1480 or 1485 · Ink on paper

An ink drawing on paper in London, named for abundance and linked to Botticelli, shares its title with a later oil on copper in Madrid — two objects, not one.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Coresets for Efficient Dataset Summarization

data · coresets · dataset summarisation

Massive training sets can be replaced by much smaller weighted subsets. When chosen carefully, these coresets keep the statistics that matter for learning, so training finishes faster with little accuracy lost.

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A wooden tobacco pipe floats alone against a pale, empty ground. Below it, in neat dark cursive, a French sentence runs in a single line across the lower part of the canvas.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Treachery of Images

René Magritte · 1929 · Oil on canvas

A tobacco pipe floats on a plain ground. Beneath it, in careful script, Magritte has written that it is not a pipe. The contradiction is the entire subject.

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