14 AUG 2026

Day 226

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

Simone Weil · Gravity and Grace

A colossal pale marble lion raised on a tall plinth in a large, light museum courtyard, its weathered surface pitted and worn.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Lion of Knidos

Hellenistic Greek · 2nd century BC · Marble

A colossal marble lion left the Turkish coast in 1858 and now sits on a plinth indoors in Bloomsbury. What it once marked, or stood on, nobody has established.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Predictive Auto-Scaling for Model Serving

systems/inference · predictive auto-scaling · Time2Vec; local-search NAS baseline

Serving models under uneven traffic means deciding how much compute to hold ready. Predictive auto-scaling tries to move that decision ahead of the queue, using forecasts of request patterns rather than pure reaction.

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A seated woman in red and blue holds an open book, one arm around a small standing child who cups a small bird in both hands; a second child, seated across her lap, reaches to touch it. Hills and trees behind.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Madonna of the Goldfinch

Raphael · 1505 · Oil paint on wood panel

A woman has stopped reading, though the book is still open in her hand. Two children have brought her a bird. The three bodies lock together into a single shape.

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