26 AUG 2026

Day 238

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

Epictetus · Enchiridion

A marble sculpture, recorded as 150 centimetres (4 ft 11 in) high, in the British Museum collection.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Demeter of Knidos

350 BC · marble · 150 centimetres (4 ft 11 in)

A marble sculpture entered the British Museum collection under a precise number, while its maker and discovery remain unprovided here.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Probing for Linguistic Knowledge

interpretability · edge probing and control tasks · 1905.05950; 1909.03368

Simple classifiers trained on frozen model layers can reveal which linguistic structures a network has already encoded, without ever updating the model itself.

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Half-length figure of a young man presented as Bacchus, modelled in strong light against deep shadow on a small upright canvas.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Self-Portrait as Bacchus

Caravaggio · 1595 · Oil on canvas

A small oil on canvas in the Galleria Borghese shows the painter as Bacchus. Made with a mirror, it folds self-portrait, myth and sickness into one cabinet piece.

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