23 AUG 2026

Day 235

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance

A large standing marble sculpture of the god Apollo, recorded at 229 centimetres (7 ft 6 in) in height, of second-century date, displayed as a museum object.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Apollo of Cyrene

Roman · 2nd century · Marble

A marble Apollo more than two metres high, unearthed at Cyrene in Libya and presented to the British Museum in 1861 with a large group of other finds.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Trojans and Backdoors: Models with Hidden Triggers

alignment/safety · trigger backdoors · arXiv 1902.09711, 2004.04692

A compromised model can look ordinary on every normal input, then change course when a specific pattern appears. Detecting that split behaviour is harder than it first sounds.

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A priest joins the hands of a woman and a man at the centre of a wedding party. Behind them a paved square recedes to a raised, domed temple on the central axis, its doorway open to the sky.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Marriage of the Virgin

Raphael · 1504 · Oil on panel

Raphael’s 1504 panel shows Mary and Joseph joined in marriage before a temple. The open pavement between them and the building carries the eye as carefully as the figures do.

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