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Manuel del Río
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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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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
September 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This souvenir is in your style, @javierleite.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This month's purchases:
Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
The Status Game, by Will Storr
Haft Paykar, by Nizami
Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group, by Chifumi Shimazaki
Permutation City, by Greg Egan
May 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Twelfth book of the year finished - Pirkei Avot. You can read a short review of it in my goodreads or in my substack:

booksandnotes.substack.com/p/book-revie...

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
April 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This month's purchases
-Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel
-Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration, by John Locke
-The Crooked Timber Of Humanity, by Isaiah Berlin
-An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
April 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
March 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This month's purchases:

Anti-Marx, Juan Ramón Rallo
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Symmetries of Things, John H. Conway
Lying,Sam Harris
March 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
So this is the famous Gradient Descent I've been hearing so much of

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February 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A similarity can't take an element to a greater one in the same set

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February 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Kepler's main contribution to truth: his three laws of planetary motion

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February 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
February 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This month's purchases:
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
More Money Than God, Sebastian Mallaby
Middlemarch, George Elliot
Chinese Bestiary, Richard Strassberg
Mathematica, David Bessis
February 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The original source of the Conan quote - in Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan 🌍🏇👑

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January 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
... and this is why politicians and unions can demagogically say stuff like 'This company is making money! The only reason it wants to close/sell off/fire workers is greed!'

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January 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Some birthday treats: presents and custard π
January 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Indispensability Argument will actually only cover a very small amount of math

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January 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This month's purchases:
Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry - Miles Reid
An Introduction to Utilitarianism - Richard Chappell, Will Macaskill
Greek Lyric, Volume II - David Campbell (trans.)
Morality and Mathematics - Justin Clarke-Doane
Undergraduate Commutative Algebra - Miles Reid
January 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
January 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Derek Parfit's reasons are generally not my cup of tea, but what he says here sounds quite reasonable:

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January 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Indulging the beginning of the year with a read on the overlaps (or lack thereof) of moral and mathematical realism - In Justin Clarke-Doane's Morality & Mathematics

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January 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
2025 priority reads
December 20, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The ten commandments - in Mankiw's Principles of Economics

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December 18, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This month's puchases:

When Least is Best - Paul Nahin
A Ludic Journey into Geometric Topology - Ton Marar
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius - Patchen Barss
Greek Lyric, Volume II - David Campbell (tr.)
Vector - Robyn Arianrhod
December 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM