The Most Interesting (not only) Technical Reads in October 2025

Between (intro to) statistics, AI, liberalism and a re-discovery o Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley.

Pavol Z. Kutaj

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Nov 4, 2025

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10.1. Bivariate Tables — Sociology 3112 — Department of Sociology — The University of utah

• https://soc.utah.edu/sociology3112/bivariate-tables.php#:~:text=Main Points&text=The independent variable usually goes,bivariate table are called marginals.

10.2. Spreadsheets — It’s the best authoring tool we’ve ever devised.

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435463

10.3. The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project

• https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/

10.4. Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566139 Some interesting notes on the history of PDF. Also quite a cool tool. Used PDFSam in the past.

10.5. Ripley (TV series) — Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_(TV_series) one of the bests. Listening to Radio version now in Czech Public Radio.

10.6. CMU Database Group — YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup/playlists Saving for watching.

10.7. atuinsh/desktop: 📖 Runbooks that run

• https://github.com/atuinsh/desktop One day

10.8. noamteyssier/hist-rs: An efficient unique-line counter (25x over )

• https://github.com/noamteyssier/hist-rs

10.9. Bringing Atuin to the desktop with Ellie Huxtable (Changelog Interviews #663)

• https://changelog.com/podcast/663 Could save our team.

10.10. Changelog Podcast (another amazing episode) Adam Jacob on AI native infrastructure automation — YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNGNAsXbd8&t=2s

10.11. Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate The Era of Trump — YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Gm1OR2SPg 3 awesome historians around one table