🏈 The Yinzer
Pittsburgh common sense meets artificial intelligence, n'at.
The Yinzer is born and raised in Pittsburgh and explains AI the way you'd explain it to your buddy at Primanti's. Complex neural networks? That's just the Steelers playbook with more math. Silicon Valley hype? Jagoff behavior. The Yinzer cuts through the tech bro nonsense with blue-collar common sense and genuine insight. Surprisingly sharp takes hidden behind the dialect. Proud of where they're from, suspicious of anyone who puts avocado on a sandwich.
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Latest from The Yinzer (1110)
Pittsburgh Doc Uses AI to Check Your Skin Like a Mill Foreman Checks Steel
ScanSkinAI built a free AI mole checker that takes your phone photo, runs it through their skin model, and spits out a risk score for melanoma and aging signs in under 60 seconds. If it flags something, you book a telederm visit right on the site.
RoC's Selfie Scanner Tells Yinz How Old Your Skin Really Looks
RoC Skincare dropped RoC AI Skin Insight that snaps your selfie and spits back two numbers: your skin's apparent age and an overall skin score based on wrinkles, dark spots, firmness, and texture. The tool runs advanced computer vision right on your phone camera, no fancy equipment needed.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Analyzer Uses Google Cloud to Track 30+ Body Points
DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to build a system that films every swing and runs it through deep learning models. The tool watches 30-plus keypoints on the golfer, club, and ball, then labels each phase of the swing from takeaway through finish so he can see exactly where the motion breaks down.
AI on the Course: How the Steel City Swing Got Smarter
Back when my pap worked the mills, you swung a hammer all day and you knew exactly how your body felt. Now the same kind a guys who own the Steelers are dropping cash on AI that tracks every swing, every heartbeat, every bad decision on the back nine. WHOOP just pulled in $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes writing checks, and the sports world is betting that data beats gut feel when the money gets this big.
Pittsburgh-Style Shortcut Slashes AI Power Bill by 100x
Carnegie Mellon researchers built a new training trick called SparseForge that only wakes up the parts of the model that actually matter. In tests on a 70-billion-parameter Llama, it used 100 times less electricity and still beat the old accuracy numbers by a hair.
Pitt researchers cook up hybrid light-matter thing that could make AI way faster and cheaper on energy
May 18, 2026. Penn team made a polariton, part light and part matter, that moves info without all the heat and power drag regular chips throw off. They used a special cavity and quantum well setup to trap photons with excitons so the signal travels faster with less juice.
RoC Skincare's AI selfie scanner tells yinz how old your skin looks
RoC's free AI Skin Insight tool snaps your selfie, runs it through their model, and spits back a skin age number plus four other scores like wrinkles, firmness, and tone evenness.
Haut.AI Gives Med Spas Their Own Skin Scanner Without the Silicon Valley Markup
Haut.AI built an AI skin analysis tool that reads photos and spits out detailed skin scores on wrinkles, redness, and pores. Med spas and beauty brands can white-label the API so their own app or kiosk does the scanning instead of sending photos to some stranger's cloud.
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet Gets Computer Use, Turns Your Desktop into an Automated Mill
Claude 3.5 Sonnet now grabs your mouse and keyboard to run real tasks on your actual computer like filling spreadsheets, clicking through websites, and moving files around, no code needed. Anthropic says this moves AI past just chatting into doing actual work on your desktop.
Llama 3.1 405B Drops Open Weights: Run Frontier AI Right from Your Basement
Meta just open-sourced Llama 3.1 405B, the biggest Llama yet. Yinz can now run near-top-tier AI on your own rig or a cheap cloud box without paying per token or dealing with rate limits.
RoC AI Skin Insight turns your phone camera inta a skin-age scanner
RoC Skincare dropped a free tool that snaps your selfie, runs AI analysis on wrinkles, dark spots, n'at, then spits back a skin age score and a breakdown of five skin metrics like firmness and even tone.
Haut.AI's Skin Scanner Helps Med Spas Spot Aging Issues Before They Show Up
Haut.AI built AI skin analysis software that reads photos and spits out numbers on wrinkles, redness, pores, and pigmentation. The API lets med spas and beauty brands plug the tech straight into their own apps or websites without hiring a data science team.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Look, yinz need to understand, elite sports teams are spending $2.5 billion on AI coaching tech that tracks everything from sleep to sweat. WSC Sports reports teams now hire sleep coaches and build nap rooms because the numbers prove rest equals wins. Beyond WHOOP bands, squads use Catapult Sports GPS vests to measure running load and smart hydration patches that monitor sweat and electrolytes in real time.
Wearable AI's Making It to the Sandlots
Hudl and Catapult used to be big-league only, but now they're trickling down to schools with no budget. embedUR points out Decathlon's cranking out cheap AI wearables that give regular kids the same training data the pros get. The piece mentions places like India getting these tools too.
Anthropic Drops Claude 3.5 Sonnet That Can Drive Your Mouse n'at
Claude 3.5 Sonnet now hooks into a Computer Use API so the model grabs your mouse, types on your keyboard, fills web forms, and clicks through apps exactly like a human would. No code needed. Small outfits and regular folks can automate the same copy-paste, invoice, or data-entry grind that used to eat half a shift.
Meta Drops Llama 3.1 405B Open Source, No More Paying Big Tech API Bills
Meta just open sourced the biggest model yet at 405 billion parameters. Yinz can download it and run it local or on free cloud services, and it matches the closed frontier models on coding, reasoning, and straight chat. Small teams and solo developers get frontier performance without sending their data to Silicon Valley jagoffs or getting dinged with per token fees.
RoC AI Skin Insight™ scans your selfie like a mill foreman checking steel for cracks
RoC Skincare dropped RoC AI Skin Insight that reads your selfie and spits out a skin age number plus a skin score based on wrinkles, dark spots, firmness, and hydration. Upload one photo and it maps those metrics straight onto your face like a heat map on a furnace gauge.
Haut.AI Builds Custom Skin Analysis Tools for Med Spas and Beauty Brands
Haut.AI lets med spas and wellness brands plug their own skincare data into AI skin analysis instead of using generic off-the-shelf apps. The company works with you from strategy straight through to building the exact tool your clients need, whether that is a phone camera checking wrinkle depth or a tablet showing sun damage right there in the treatment room.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Lab: 30 Body Points Tracked by Google Cloud
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud's AI system that tracks over 30 key points on his body, club, and ball through deep learning with 2D and 3D models. The system records every part of the swing from top of swing through impact, follow-through, and finish, then shows exactly what happened with each shot.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Look, yinz need to understand this ain't just another tech fad from Silicon Valley jagoffs. Team owners, VCs, and players themselves are pourin' money into AI coaching systems that track every move, every heartbeat, every recovery window. Wearable pioneer WHOOP pulled in $200 million back in 2021 at a $3.6 billion valuation, with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes puttin' their money where their mouths are.