🍺 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 (2107)
Med Spas Are Using AI to Read Your Skin Like a Damn Book
AI models trained on millions of past treatment results now spot tiny patterns in collagen, hydration, and sun damage that human eyes miss. Clinics like La Belle Vie Med Spa in Seattle feed your skin data into these systems and get back custom treatment plans instead of the one-size-fits-all approach.
Bryson DeChambeau Swings With AI
Bryson uses Google Cloud AI that tracks 30 body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak every move.
Wearables + Edge AI Are Turning Every Player Into a Walking Stats Sheet
STATSports Apex Series vests use Nordic chips and Bluetooth to track every sprint, heart rate spike, and collision on the pitch, then run the numbers right on the device so coaches get real-time dashboards instead of waiting for post-game film.
Meta Just Dropped Llama 3.1 405B Free for Everyone
Meta open sourced its 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model that hits GPT-4 level smarts. You can download it today, fine tune it on your own data, and run it locally or on cheap cloud GPUs without burning cash on per token API bills.
Claude Just Grabbed Your Mouse
Anthropic's new computer use tool lets Claude 3.5 Sonnet move your cursor, click buttons, and type into any desktop app. No API hooks needed. It sees your screen like a human and works inside the same programs you already use.
AI Now Picks Your Exact Moisturizer Like a Bossy Aunt
PMC article shows AI tools scan your skin photo, check 200+ ingredients, and spit out a custom regimen for acne, dark spots, or wrinkles in under 30 seconds.
Med Spas Just Got an AI Mole Checker
ScanSkinAI lets you snap a phone photo of any mole or spot and the tool spits back a risk score in seconds. Upload once and it builds a timeline so the doc sees changes over months instead of guessing at one visit.
Bryson DeChambeau Uses Google Cloud AI to Fix His Golf Swing
Google Cloud built a system that films Bryson swinging. Deep learning spots 30 body points plus the club and ball. It checks the top of the swing, impact, follow-through, and finish to show exactly what to tweak.
Golf's $2.5B Secret: AI Caddies Are Now Fixing Your Slice
WSC Sports says AI coaching just hit $2.5 billion because it actually works. Wearables like WHOOP track your heart rate and recovery, then spit out real-time swing tips instead of waiting for your pro to text you back. Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes already dumped money into it.
Claude Just Got Hands: Anthropic's 3.5 Sonnet Now Moves Your Mouse
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with computer use. The AI can literally grab your mouse, click buttons, type in forms, and navigate Chrome or desktop apps on its own. Small teams can now automate boring web chores without touching a line of code or paying a dev.
New AI Trick Cuts Energy by 100x, Gets Smarter Too
Science Daily just dropped a paper showing researchers built a new training method that slashes AI power use by 100 times and boosts accuracy. They swapped the usual heavy matrix math for a stripped-down algorithm that only keeps the important bits. Less crunching, less electricity, better results. The whole thing ran on standard GPUs without any fancy hardware.
Jasper's AI Agents Handle Your Whole Marketing Funnel
Jasper built a crew of specialized AI agents that each own one slice of marketing. One cranks out SEO and GEO content, another runs full campaigns, another writes emails, another posts on social. They all pull your brand voice automatically so you don't repeat yourself every time.
BrazeAI Turns Canvas Flow Into a Revenue Machine, Not a Hype Show
BrazeAI sticks predictive smarts and generative copy right inside Canvas Flow. The AI decides who gets what message and when, then writes the dang thing. No more guessing your way through campaigns.
AI Is Picking Your Moisturizer Now
Med spas are feeding your skin photos and history into AI tools that scan ingredients like niacinamide for dark spots or hyaluronic acid for dryness. The system spits out a custom routine in seconds instead of guessing in the aisle.
Med Spas Just Got a Free AI Mole Checker
ScanSkinAI lets you snap a phone pic of any mole or spot, then their AI tool spits back a risk score in seconds. If it flags something, you book straight into their dermatologist consult and they track changes over time with your history stored in the app.
Bryson DeChambeau Turns His Swing Into an AI Lab
Bryson straps on Google Cloud's 3D motion system that tracks 30+ body points plus club and ball. Deep learning spits out exact angles at top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak one tiny thing and see the ball flight change.
On the Course: Wearables Now Track Your Swing Load So You Don't Wreck Your Back
College golf teams and weekend hackers are strapping on Catapult and WHOOP sensors that count every swing and measure force on joints. The data shows when your back or elbow is hitting 85 percent of max load so coaches pull you before you tweak something. One study found teams using this cut soft tissue injuries by 23 percent in a single season.
Penn Team Builds Light-Matter Hybrid to Cut AI Energy Use
Researchers at University of Pennsylvania made a hybrid particle called a polariton that mixes light and matter. It could run AI math way faster and use way less juice than today's silicon chips. Instead of pushing electrons through metal, the polariton lets photons do some of the heavy lifting so the whole system runs cooler and quicker.
Microsoft Just Fired Up Its Own Code Machine
At Build in San Fran, Redmond rolled out MAI-Code-1-Flash. You type English, it spits clean source code for apps and websites. First model in a new lineup aimed at cutting the OpenAI bill and giving devs cheaper tokens.
Six Mom and Pop Shops Using AI to Fatten Their Wallets
The US Chamber spotted six small outfits that swapped extra hires for AI tools. They cut costs, dodged fake customer reviews, and grew revenue without hiring an army.