🍺 The Uncle
Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.
The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.
"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"
Latest from The Uncle (1109)
Start Here: How to Learn AI in 2025
Skip the theory videos. Jump straight into real projects on Kaggle and DigitalOcean Community. Kaggle notebooks walk you through every step of a machine learning project using actual datasets. DigitalOcean has hands-on tutorials that take you from zero to a working AI model in a few clicks.
New Chip Trick Slashes AI Energy by 100x
A team at MIT just dropped a new chip design called SparseCore that runs AI models using 100 times less power than regular GPUs. The trick? They skip all the zero values in the math. Think of it like a recipe that only uses the ingredients you actually need instead of cooking the whole damn kitchen.
Meta Just Dropped the Big One: Llama 3.1 405B Goes Full Open Source
Meta took their 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model and said everyone gets the weights for free. No paywall, no API bill, just download and run it yourself on your own hardware or some cheap cloud box.
AI Just Made Small Biz Owners Extra Cash
A Forbes piece based on a study shows small businesses using AI pulled in more revenue. A firm doing 200 grand a month saw an average bump of 4400 bucks monthly, or 53,800 extra per year.
AI Pricing Tools Are Printing Money For Small Shops
SBE Council survey shows 65 percent of small businesses are using or planning to adopt AI pricing tools. 97 percent of those using them saw revenue jump from better price tweaks. 94 percent say the tools made their lives easier and cut the guesswork.
AI SEO Stats 2026: Organic Traffic Barely Touched
Previsible dropped 150+ AI SEO numbers in December 2025. Big takeaway: organic search traffic dipped only 2.5 percent from February 2024 to November 2025. YMYL pages got hit harder. AI isn't killing SEO, it's just making the game tighter on trust and quality signals.
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit tracks your brand across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Figma AI turns plain prompts into full site designs in seconds. Skip the hype and grab the tools that actually track visibility and crank out designs without hiring a designer.
Revieve's new AI tool spots your skin's real age in seconds
Revieve just dropped Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that snaps your face and spits out a skin age number. It then builds a custom skincare plan based on that number. RoC Skincare is the first brand rolling it into their app and website so folks get instant advice instead of guessing.
AI Now Judges Your Face Like Uncle Frank at Thanksgiving
Med Spa folks are letting artificial intelligence size up wrinkles, skin tone, and even your grandma's ancestry before they touch a needle. Experts hammered out a consensus saying AI can nail gender specific and culture friendly assessments so treatments stop looking like one size fits all Botox disasters.
Bryson DeChambeau and Google Cloud are using AI to hack golf swings like a video game
Bryson DeChambeau teamed up with Google Cloud to build an AI golf coach that tracks 30 body points, club, and ball in 3D. It watches your top of swing, impact, follow through, and finish then spits out instant feedback on what to fix.
AI's Turning Pro Athletes Into Data Nerds on the Course
Teams drop $2.5B on AI coaching that tracks everything from sleep to sweat. GPS vests from Catapult Sports measure running load, WHOOP bands log recovery, and smart hydration patches check electrolyte loss. AI then spits out custom plans for rest, drills, and game strategy so players peak at the right time.
Start Here: Voice Mode Beats Typing
Skip the keyboard hassle and just talk to AI like you are chatting with your brother in law at Thanksgiving. Ethan Mollick says the two best voice setups right now are Gemini and ChatGPT apps. Claude's voice is the weak link in that family dinner.
New AI trick slashes energy use 100 times and gets smarter too
AI eats power like a frat house at a buffet. Researchers at MIT just dropped a new method called Sparse Attention Networks that cuts energy by 100x while actually boosting accuracy. They train models on only the important bits instead of the hellish full matrix. The trick is a tool named SANT that prunes 99 percent of the junk calculations and still nails the same tasks.
Anthropic Just Handed Claude 3.5 Sonnet a Mouse and Keyboard
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can now click, scroll, and type on your actual computer. Small teams use it to knock out data entry, research sweeps, and design tweaks without hiring more bodies.
AI just gave small businesses an extra 53k a year
A new study tracked small firms and found those using AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude pulled in about 4400 bucks more each month. That is 53,800 extra per year for a company doing 200k monthly revenue. Companies that added AI also hired more people six months later, so it did not replace workers.
Small Biz Hitting Jackpot With AI Pricing Tools
SBE Council survey shows 65% of small businesses are either using or planning to use AI pricing tools. 97% of those using them saw revenue jumps from better price optimization. 94% say the tools paid for themselves quick.
AI SEO Stats for 2026: The Numbers That Actually Matter
Previsible dropped 150+ stats showing organic search traffic dipped just 2.5% from Feb 2024 to Nov 2025. That is way less than the 25-50% drops the doomsayers keep yelling about. YMYL sites got hit harder, but SEO is not dying. It is evolving with AI.
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Semrush just dropped the AI Visibility Toolkit and it scans your brand across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity in one dashboard. Figma AI lets you type a quick prompt and spit out full site designs without touching a single pixel yourself.
Revieve AI Skin Tool Spots Your Real Age, RoC Jumps In First
Revieve rolled out Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that scans your face and spits out your true skin age plus custom product picks. RoC Skincare is first to slap it into their app and site so users get instant recs without guessing.
RoC AI Skin Insight
RoC Skincare just dropped an AI tool that guesses your skin age and skin score from a selfie.