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The Daily Triptych211 / 365

30 JUL 2026

Day 211

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer · Studies in Pessimism
A 21-metre limestone mausoleum associated with the Kingdom of Numidia.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga

Kingdom of Numidia · 3rd century BC · Limestone

A twenty-one-metre limestone mausoleum, linked with four named creators, brings a Kingdom of Numidia record into the British Museum collection without supplying its full journey.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Shared Representations

RL · Shared representations · MT-DNN, arXiv 1901.11504

When several tasks learn through one common representation, a new but related environment can often be approached with far fewer fresh samples than training alone would need.

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A wide river landscape: three horses pull a timber waggon through shallow water; a cottage stands on the left bank under trees; meadows open to the right beneath a sky heavy with cloud.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Hay Wain

John Constable · 1821 · Oil on canvas

Three horses draw a farm waggon through shallow water while a cottage holds the left bank and cloud fills the sky — a landscape Constable first showed simply as noon.

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