Manuel del Río
@manueldelrio.bsky.social
Biological machine learning ('teacher'), Utopian ⚪🔵🔴, 文士. Curious and passionate about math, truth, literature, art, physics, history, languages, people (probably in that order).
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After a pause, we're back to Mathematical Creatures and Where to Find Them, with the first part of Full and Faithful Functors
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Full and Faithful Functors
Mathematical Creatures and Where to Find Them, 5a
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October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
After a pause, we're back to Mathematical Creatures and Where to Find Them, with the first part of Full and Faithful Functors
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Back to Bartle and Sherbert, and some musings on the Archimedean Property!
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Eternal Return
It's back again to Bartle and Sherbert!
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October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Back to Bartle and Sherbert, and some musings on the Archimedean Property!
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Thirty-fourth book of the year finished: The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer:
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Book reviews - The Invention of Good and Evil, Hanno Sauer
★★★★
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October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thirty-fourth book of the year finished: The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer:
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Part 5 (and last) of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic movies
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Prison, my lord?
Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 5 and last)
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October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Part 5 (and last) of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic movies
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Yuan Chun - Sent to my Sisters in Luoyang
YouTube video by Manuel do Río
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October 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Against the Viewpoint of the Universe™ (2). More ramblings on ethics and anti-realism
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Against the Viewpoint of the Universe™ (2)
Some more ramblings, mostly inspired on Damiaan Luc van der Werf's In Two Minds
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October 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Against the Viewpoint of the Universe™ (2). More ramblings on ethics and anti-realism
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Part 4 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic literature
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Prison, my lord?
Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 4)
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October 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Part 4 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic literature
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Thirty-third book of the year finished: Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva by Robin Magowan
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Book reviews - Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Robin Magowan
★★
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September 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Thirty-third book of the year finished: Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva by Robin Magowan
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Part 3 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic urbanism:
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Prison, my lord?
Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 3)
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September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Part 3 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic urbanism:
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Thirty-second book of the year finished: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, by Plutarch
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Book reviews - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, Plutarch
★★★★★
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September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thirty-second book of the year finished: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, by Plutarch
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Part 2 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic images in painting.
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Prison, my lord?
Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 2)
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September 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Part 2 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic images in painting.
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Reposted by Manuel del Río
The Best Things I Have Found on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks
It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening…
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It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening…
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The Best Things I Have Found on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks
It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening with respect to the unrea
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September 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Best Things I Have Found on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks
It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening…
braddelong.substack.com/p/the-best-t...
It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening…
braddelong.substack.com/p/the-best-t...
This was an old article of mine that I published 14 years ago and that I'll be sharing now with you (in English!): Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema, part 1 (Introduction).
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Prison, my lord?
Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 1)
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September 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This was an old article of mine that I published 14 years ago and that I'll be sharing now with you (in English!): Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema, part 1 (Introduction).
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This month's purchases:
The Wind From Vulture Peak - Stephen D. Miller
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered - J.P. Mallory
The Great Commentary to the Documents Classic - Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen
The Wind From Vulture Peak - Stephen D. Miller
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered - J.P. Mallory
The Great Commentary to the Documents Classic - Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen
September 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This month's purchases:
The Wind From Vulture Peak - Stephen D. Miller
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered - J.P. Mallory
The Great Commentary to the Documents Classic - Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen
The Wind From Vulture Peak - Stephen D. Miller
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered - J.P. Mallory
The Great Commentary to the Documents Classic - Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen
Yuan Chun - Spring View from Qin
YouTube video by Manuel do Río
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September 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Thirty-first book of the year finished: Masterpieces of Tea Ceramics: See, Buy, and Enjoy.
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Book Reviews - Masterpieces of Tea Ceramics: See, Buy, and Enjoy
★★★
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September 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thirty-first book of the year finished: Masterpieces of Tea Ceramics: See, Buy, and Enjoy.
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日本で買った茶道具は私の宝物です
or "The tea utensils I bought in Japan are my treasures"
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August 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This souvenir is in your style, @javierleite.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This souvenir is in your style, @javierleite.bsky.social
Thirtieth book of the year finished: Urasenke Tea Procedure Guidebook 1, by Sōshitsu Sen XVI.
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Book reviews - Sōshitsu Sen XVI, Urasenke Tea Procedure Guidebook 1
★★★★
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August 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thirtieth book of the year finished: Urasenke Tea Procedure Guidebook 1, by Sōshitsu Sen XVI.
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Twenty-ninth book of the year finished: Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Book reviews - Richard Feynman, Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!
★★★
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August 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Twenty-ninth book of the year finished: Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Twenty-eighth book of the year finished: The Essence of Shinto, by Motohisa Yamakage.
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Book reviews - Motohisa Yamakage, The Essence of Shinto
★★★
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August 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Twenty-eighth book of the year finished: The Essence of Shinto, by Motohisa Yamakage.
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Twenty-seventh book of the year finished: The Tea Ceremony, by Sen'o and Sendo Tanaka.
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Book reviews - Tanaka Sen'o, The Tea Ceremony
★★★★★
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August 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Twenty-seventh book of the year finished: The Tea Ceremony, by Sen'o and Sendo Tanaka.
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Twenty-sixth book of the year finished: Slouching Towards Utopia, by @delong.social
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Book Reviews - Brad deLong, Slouching Towards Utopia
★★★★
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July 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Twenty-sixth book of the year finished: Slouching Towards Utopia, by @delong.social
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Twenty-fifth book of the year finished: The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, by John Steele Gordon
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Book reviews - John Steele Gordon, The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street
★★★★
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July 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Twenty-fifth book of the year finished: The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, by John Steele Gordon
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