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The Daily Triptych193 / 365

12 JUL 2026

Day 193

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Henri Poincaré · Science and Method
Broken limestone stela fragments bearing eleven lines of incised Punic text, the surface worn and uneven, presented as a single administrative inscription.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Carthage Tariff

Punic Carthage · Limestone · 1856, Carthage

A limestone fragment from Carthage lists what a sacrifice cost and who kept which cut — priests or the worshipper. Found in 1856, it still shows how a temple ran its books.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Model Parallelism with Pipeline Bubbles

systems/inference · pipeline parallelism · GPipe (arXiv:1811.06965)

Splitting a network across accelerators leaves gaps where hardware sits empty. Micro-batches and careful scheduling shrink those gaps without changing the mathematics of training.

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Two adjoining brick house fronts with shuttered windows and an alley between them; small figures sit and work in a doorway and passage, with children on the lower steps.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Little Street

Johannes Vermeer · 1658 · Oil on canvas

Two house fronts, an alley and a handful of figures at their work. Vermeer gives almost no street and almost all wall — and the ordinary becomes the whole subject.

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