The Science of Hitting
Ted Williams became one of the greatest hitters who ever lived by knowing exactly which pitches he could drive and taking everything else. This week a machine cracked a 90-year-old math problem over a weekend, a drug scientist proved the benchmarks grading AI are rigged, and both point at the same thing: intelligence is getting cheap, the at-bat is getting free, and the last scarce resource left is knowing what the swing actually produced.
Harry DeMott · Jul 21, 2026 · 22 min read
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