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Iliad XXIV 525f (Emily Wilson tr.). ὡς γὰρ ἐπεκλώσαντο θεοὶ δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσι / ζώειν ἀχνυμένοις: αὐτοὶ δέ τ᾽ ἀκηδέες εἰσί.

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Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy p. 92.

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Havelock p. 208.

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Havelock p. 170.

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Havelock p. 90.

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Eric Havelock, Preface to Plato, pp. 45 & 47.

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Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, p. 784.

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Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, pp. 721 & 723, on ghosts.

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Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine, p. 264.

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Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (Bromfield tr.), Monday Starts on Saturday, p. 120.

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Prince (p. 414), ostriches.

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Prince (p. 170) on inductive bias and network architecture.

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From a Talk of the Town about rappelling graffiti artists. The cell phone, as a device for destroying dramatic tension, has nothing on AI.

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Simon Prince, Understanding Deep Learning.

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Tricia Lockwood panning Simon Critchley, “That Shape Am I,” LRB 23 Jan. 2025.

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Bernstein, p. 299. Hedge funds were peripheral (and not called that) in 1996.

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Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods, pp 290-291 on behavioral finance and dividends. A lot has changed in 40 years.