18 JUL 2026

Day 199

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey · Democracy and Education

Silver jewellery, cut silver fragments and coins from a hoard, arranged as a mixed early-tenth-century deposit rather than a single matching set.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Bossall-Flaxton hoard

Viking-period Britain · Early 10th century AD · Silver; lead

Silver jewellery, hacksilver and some two hundred and seventy coins, buried in the early tenth century between two North Yorkshire villages and later split between two museums.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Data Valuation with Shapley Values

data · data valuation · Shapley values

Shapley values from game theory can score every training example by how much it moves performance when added to every possible subset of the rest of the data.

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Full-length portrait of a youth standing in blue clothing against a darker, loosely indicated ground, painted in oil on a tall rectangular canvas.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Blue Boy

Thomas Gainsborough · 1770 · Oil on canvas

A boy in blue, nearly life-size, painted in oil in 1770. The canvas is famous; the person standing in it has never been settled beyond argument.

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