🏈 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.
"Look, yinz need to understand..." • "That's jagoff behavior right there" • "Lemme redd this up for yinz" • "Back when my pap worked the mills..."
Latest from The Yinzer (2100)
RoC Skincare's AI Skin Scanner Tells Yinz If Yer Face Looks 45 When Yer Only 38
RoC AI Skin Insight takes a selfie and runs it through their analysis tool to spit out a skin age score and five metrics like wrinkles, dark spots, firmness, tone, and hydration levels.
ScanSkinAI Mole Checker Spots Trouble Before It Starts
ScanSkinAI's free AI mole checker spots changes in your skin that could turn into trouble later. You snap a photo, the app measures size, color, and shape against past scans, then tracks everything over months so you catch problems early instead of waiting for a biopsy.
Greenside AI Uses Your iPhone to Fix Your Golf Swing
Greenside AI runs on your iPhone's GPU and Neural Engine to analyze your swing without needing internet. It measures your biomechanics like hip rotation and club path, then uses predictive modeling to show what your swing should look like for better contact.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Look, yinz ever wonder why the Steelers got nap rooms and sleep coaches now? It's the same numbers game the big sports teams are playin'. WSC Sports is talkin' about a $2.5 billion market where AI ain't just watchin' the game, it's tellin' players when to rest, how hard to train, and what to eat. Beyond WHOOP bands, teams slap on Catapult GPS vests to track every sprint and Catapult's software spits out load numbers. Then they got hydration patches that read sweat and electrolytes in real time. All that data feeds AI models that predict injury risk before it happens. The old days of a coach yellin' 'run it again' are gettin' replaced by dashboards that say 'your hamstrings are cooked, sit this one out.'
Anthropic Just Gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet a Mouse and Keyboard
Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new computer use feature lets the AI move your cursor, click buttons, type, and run apps on your desktop just like a person would. Regular users can now tell it to handle repetitive tasks inside existing software without writing any code.
Pittsburgh-style shortcut cuts AI power bill by 100 times
Carnegie Mellon and Intel Labs just dropped a new training trick that uses way less juice than the usual GPU grind. Instead of running every calculation full blast like we do at the blast furnace, they only crunch the numbers that actually move the needle. Result: same or better accuracy, 100 times less energy on big language jobs.
Pittsburgh's New AI Mole Checker Wants to Catch Skin Trouble Before It Turns Into a Real Jagoff Problem
ScanSkinAI's free AI Skin Longevity Checker lets yinz snap a photo of a mole or spot and get an instant AI read on whether it needs a closer look, then tracks changes over time like checking your Steelers season stats year after year.
RoC AI Skin Insight™: Take a Selfie, Get Your Skin Age Score
RoC Skincare dropped RoC AI Skin Insight, an online tool that scans your selfie and spits out a skin age score plus metrics like wrinkles, dark spots, and firmness. You snap a pic on their site, the AI maps it against real dermatology data, and you get a number telling you if your skin's aging faster or slower than your actual age.
Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Lab at the Range
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google Cloud AI to track 30-plus body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D during every swing. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can see exactly what changed from one shot to the next.
Edge AI in the Vest: How STATSports Apex Is Givin Yinz Real-Time Game Day Numbers
The Nordic-powered Apex Series from STATSports sticks a small Bluetooth sensor in a lightweight vest and runs edge AI right on the device so coaches get live heart rate, speed, and workload numbers without waitin on the cloud. Premier League clubs already use it, and the system processes data on the pitch instead of sendin everything back to some server in Silicon Valley.
Meta Drops Llama 3.1 405B: Free 405-Billion-Parameter Model Yinz Can Run Local
Meta just open-sourced the biggest model yet at 405 billion parameters, matching GPT-4 level smarts on most benchmarks. You download the weights for free, run it on your own rig or rent cheap GPU time from Together AI or Fireworks, and skip those per-token bills from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Pitt researchers slash AI power use 100 times with new math trick
AI chews through electricity like a steel mill on overtime, but a team out of Carnegie Mellon just dropped a new approach that cuts energy use by 100 times while actually making the models smarter. Instead of running every calculation through the whole network like usual, they only fire up the parts that matter for each task. The result? Same accuracy on big benchmarks, but running on a fraction of the juice.
Pittsburgh Med Spas Bring AI Longevity Scans Right to Your Face
Aura's AI system pulls bloodwork, skin imaging, and your whole health history then spits out a personalized aging roadmap before any needle touches skin.
Fountain Life Uses AI and Full Body Scans to Catch Problems Before They Start
Fountain Life runs a longevity clinic that combines AI analysis, genomics testing, and full body imaging to spot health issues years early instead of waiting for symptoms to show up.
Bryson DeChambeau Uses Google Cloud AI to Track 30 Body Points and Crush Golf Shots
Bryson DeChambeau is working with Google Cloud to build an AI system that films his swing and tracks over 30 key points on his body, club, and ball in both 2D and 3D using deep learning models. The tool logs every part of the swing from top to finish and measures what actually happens to the ball so he can see exactly what needs fixed.
Edge AI in a Vest: How STATSports Tracks Every Step on the Pitch
STATSports Apex Series vests use Nordic chips and on-device AI to track speed, distance, and workload in real time for Premier League clubs without sending data to the cloud.
Pitt Researchers Drop New Trick That Cuts AI Power by 100x
Look, AI eats electricity like a jagoff at Primanti's on a Friday night. But some smart folks at a lab just cooked up a new way to train models that uses 100 times less juice and still gets the answers right more often. They call the trick 'SparseForge' and it works by only firing up the parts of the model that actually matter instead of lighting up the whole damn thing every time.
Pitt Researchers Build Light-Matter Hybrid That Could Cut AI Power Bills
Scientists at Penn State just made a hybrid particle that mixes light and matter, letting AI chips move data way faster while burning way less juice. The breakthrough uses something called a polariton, part photon and part electron, to shuttle information without all the resistance that heats up normal silicon chips.
Pittsburgh Small Biz Study Shows AI Adds $4,400 a Month to the Bottom Line
A Forbes piece breaks down a new study: small businesses pulling in $200,000 monthly that started using AI tools saw an average $4,400 extra revenue every month, or $53,800 more a year. The same firms also hired a few more workers six months later instead of laying people off.
6 Ways AI's Makin' Money Moves for Business Growth
FLO, a major retailer, used AI to fix their stock problems. On-shelf availability jumped from 71% to 94%, out-of-stocks dropped from 15% to 3%, and they pulled in 2.7% more revenue just by makin' smarter replenishment calls. When you're runnin' on thin margins like retail does, them kinda gains add up quick.