🏈 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 (2100)
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.
Llama 3.1 405B Drops: Run a Near-Frontier Model on Your Own Rig
Meta just open-sourced the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model. It fits on four high-end consumer GPUs like the RTX 4090, so yinz can run it locally without sending your prompts to any Silicon Valley server farm.
Pitt Researchers Cut AI Power Use by 100x, Accuracy Goes Up
A team outta Carnegie Mellon just dropped a new way to run AI that uses a hundred times less energy and still gets better answers. They swapped out the usual power-hungry matrix math for something called 'sparse attention with dynamic pruning' on a test model called LLaMA-7B. The trick was running only the parts of the model that matter for each question instead of firing every neuron every time.
Pittsburgh Med Spas Using Haut.AI to Scan Skin Like a Mill Foreman Checks Steel
Haut.AI sells an AI skin analysis API that lets med spas and beauty brands build custom tools for wrinkle, pore, and redness scoring without hiring a whole tech crew. The company was started by a female AI scientist who turned the tech into a profitable longevity play, and now any spa can plug the API into their own app or kiosk.
RoC Skincare's AI Skin Scanner Tells Yinz How Old Your Face Really Looks
RoC AI Skin Insight takes a selfie and runs it through their algorithm to spit out your skin age and a skin score based on wrinkles, dark spots, and firmness. It's like having a dermatologist appraise your face instead of your car at the used lot.
Bryson DeChambeau Using Google Cloud AI to Track 30 Body Points on Every Swing
Bryson DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to build an AI system that films his golf swing and tracks over 30 key points on his body, club, and ball using deep learning and 2D/3D models. The tool breaks down the top of the swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can see exactly what needs fixed instead of guessing.
Steelers Ain't the Only Ones Gettin' Coached by AI Now
WSC Sports says AI coaching is a $2.5 billion game now. Pro teams ain't just countin' reps no more, they're trackin' every heartbeat, sweat drop, and sleep cycle with sensors from WHOOP and Catapult Sports. GPS vests measure runnin' load, smart patches watch hydration, and nap rooms are gettin' built 'cause the numbers prove rest wins games.
Pitt Researchers Cut AI Power Bills by 100x with New Math Trick
Carnegie Mellon and Pitt scientists just dropped a method called 'SparseForge' that runs big language models on a fraction of the juice while gettin' better answers. Instead of burnin' through whole GPU racks like the old way, they only wake up the parts of the model that matter for each question. Tests on Llama-3-70B showed the same accuracy on math and code tasks but used 98 times less electricity.
Pitt researchers just built a hybrid light-matter thing that could make AI chips way faster and cheaper to run
A team at Penn cooked up something called a polariton, part light and part matter, that moves way quicker than regular electrons. They're saying this could slash the energy AI computers burn while cranking up the speed, kinda like swapping out an old incline for one that don't need no coal.
Pittsburgh Med Spa Using AI Diagnostics to Show What Treatments Actually Do
Aura's system runs longevity diagnostics first, then uses simulation tech to model filler and facial balancing results before any needle touches skin. The software shows patients exactly how subtle changes will look instead of guessing.
RoC's New AI Tool Tells Yinz How Old Yer Skin Really Looks
RoC Skincare dropped RoC AI Skin Insight, a free web tool that scans yer selfie and spits out two numbers: yer estimated skin age and an overall skin score based on wrinkles, tone, and texture.