Tag: Pocket

So… what does it actually mean?

Nothing. That’s the beauty of it. “6–7” isn’t a secret phrase, an acronym, or some coded reference. It’s just fun to say, easy to copy, and makes kids feel like they’re part of something. In other words, it’s classic internet humor: random, harmless, and over before parents even figure out what’s happening.
— Read on www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/why-your-kids-keep-saying-six-seven

According to MLB statistician Sarah Langs, Ohtani became the first player in league history to hit three home runs and strike out at least one batter, let alone 10. Per the TNT Sports broadcast, Ohtani became the first starting pitcher since 1900 to hit a leadoff home run in the regular season or the playoffs, and the first starting pitcher since 1900 to hit multiple home runs in a postseason game.

All of those incredible superlatives come with one other amazing fact, given that starting pitchers usually thrive on a regular five-day schedule for starts: It was the first time Ohtani had pitched in 13 days.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/sport/baseball-los-angeles-dodgers-nlcs

Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better, shade, value, beauty, longevity. Most products? We treat them like shrubs. Plant twenty features, hope one sticks. Feature bloat dressed up as “innovation.” It’s impatient, and it’s stupid.
The smarter play is restraint. Plant the tree. Solve the one core problem. Put the craft in. Then let time and real user behavior do the work.
— Read on designobserver.com/the-compound-interest-of-design-what-not-to-build/

The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks.
— Read on www.derekthompson.org/p/the-us-population-could-shrink-in

It turns out that our agents love social media! They post about everything. When they discover a fun new thing? They post. When they get a hard problem? They post while they’re working. If we yell at them? They post. If we tell them they are great? They post.

The experiment was deemed a success. Plus, watching them post through their experiences was also very entertaining.

After adding these tools to our coding agents and working with our newly social media enabled agents for a few weeks, we started to notice some surprising results: the agents that were using social media seemed to perform better than those without.
— Read on 2389.ai/posts/agents-discover-subtweeting-solve-problems-faster/

“[The Italian physicist Alessandro] Volta first speculated that it was lightning causing these [will-o’-the-wisps], and in some sense he was right, but not for the reasons he thought,” Zare tells Alex Wilkins at New Scientist. “It’s not lightning in the air coming from the sky; it’s really from the droplets.”

— Read on www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-actually-sparks-will-o-the-wisps-a-new-study-traces-the-science-behind-the-mysterious-wandering-lights-180987421/

These were our movies. Not galaxies far away, not fairy tales. Parking lots, parade floats, dead ends, second chances. We were always almost—almost boomers, almost millennials, almost grown up before the world caught fire. The reel runs out, and all that’s left is the ache of time passing, and the hope somebody was watching with us.

— Read on markmcinerney.substack.com/p/the-movies-that-defined-gen-x

AI cannot mishear. And mishearing is often how we learn.

Once, a student wrote a sentence so strange I wrote “What do you mean?” in the margin. The next week, she came to office hours. She told me the sentence wasn’t wrong—it was something her grandmother used to say. She translated it back into English the way she thought it should sound. It made perfect sense once she explained. But only after she explained.

– Read on therumpus.net/2025/10/02/human-error-is-the-point-on-teaching-college-during-the-rise-of-ai/

MAYER: When you see the quality of your search results go down, it’s natural to blame Google and be like, “Why are they worse?” To me, the more interesting and sophisticated thought is if you say, “Wait, but Google’s just a window onto the web. The real question is, why is the web getting worse?”

DUBNER: Okay, Marissa. “So Google’s just a window onto the web. Why is the web getting worse?” 

MAYER: I think because there’s a lot of economic incentive for misinformation, for clicks, for purchases. There’s a lot more fraud on the web today than there was 20 years ago. And I think that the web has been able to grow and develop as quickly as it has because of less regulation and because it’s so international. But we also have to take the flipside of that. In a relatively unregulated space, there’s going to be economic misincentives that can sometimes degrade quality. And that does put a lot of onus on the brokers who are searching that information to try and overcome that. And it’s difficult. It kind of has to be more, in my view, of an ecosystem-style reaction, rather than just a simple correction from one actor. 

Is Google Getting Worse? – Freakonomics

If as few doses of Tylenol were consumed each year as Ivermectin, there would be one Acetaminophen death every 72 years.2

And, if as many doses of Ivermectin as Tylenol were consumed each year, the body count in the U.S. for the antiparasitic drug would be over 850,000 deaths annually. That would be like losing the entire population of a city like Indianapolis or San Francisco – every year.

— Read on ritholtz.com/2025/09/denominator-blindness-tylenol-edition/