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San Francisco Standard : 'Dozens of AI workers turn against bosses, sign letter in support of Wiener AI bill; Thirty-seven signatories are employees of companies opposing SB 1047, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta' ... The brief letter warns “that the most powerful AI models may soon pose...

The end is nigh.

Pop will eat itself . A paper published in Nature shows machine learning models are fundamentally vulnerable. As the authors write in the paper’s introduction: 'We discover that indiscriminately learning from data produced by other models causes “model collapse” — a degenerative process whereby, ov...

News from the front: rap is out, songwriting is in.

Fender Champion 20
Fender Princeton Reverb II
Hiwatt Custom 7 Combo

"Compact, easy to use and versatile enough for any style of guitar playing, the 20-watt Champion 20 is an ideal choice for your first practice amp", according to Fender. I moved on up to the 22-watt Princeton Reverb II, which I am still using all these years later.

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Bill Frisell discovers how much a 1960 Strat costs, and encounters a Les Paul.

Jops wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 7:09 am

Litterick wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 9:40 pm I tried a Hybrid II at Guitar Gallery. Very smooth. Not much like a Jazzmaster.

Smooth as in no ear bleeding treble?

Smooth all over: smooth tone, smooth neck, smooth satin finish.

Spring's coming, time to try something new. Thinking about deep diving on Jazzmasters. I know nothing. Educate me. I always prefer modern appointments to vintage correct except when it comes to pup configs so don't tell me about some hb equipped pos you tried once. Anyone tried that JV Hybrid II in...

Jazz guitarists love the Koch.

The Bats are such nice people.

Disappointing to see that only two of us are right.

I really want to learn something new, but can't seem to get excited about anything. I love a good technical riff; Lamb of God, Trivium etc usually gets the juices flowing, but I'm a bit burnt out on that sorta music atm. I also have a pretty limited chord vocabulary, so been dipping my toe in some ...