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The Daily Triptych240 / 365

28 AUG 2026

Day 240

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
A complete early medieval crozier with a curved head, shown as a tall staff whose surface ornament is in places worn or damaged.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Kells Crozier

Early medieval Ireland · Crozier · British Museum

A fully intact Insular crozier entered the British Museum in 1859. Its link to the Abbey of Kells is traditional rather than proven, and its earlier life remains lost.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

LoRA: Low-Rank Fine-Tuning

efficiency · LoRA (low-rank adaptation) · GPT-3 175B in the LoRA paper

Full fine-tuning rewrites every weight. LoRA freezes them and trains only a pair of thin matrices whose product stands in for the update — often thousands of times fewer parameters.

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A young girl in profile wears a lemon-yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, holding a small book in her right hand as she reads.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

A Young Girl Reading

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1770 · Oil on canvas

An unidentified girl sits in profile, a small book raised in her right hand. Fragonard gives her a lemon-yellow dress, white ruffs, purple ribbons — and little else.

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