I'm pretty sure that #GallienKrueger fill their backline 112 amps with lead shot just to help with the psychological concept of 'It's as heavy as fuck so it must be good'

#bass #amplification

The driver for this thing must be made out of black hole... which would also explain why sound can't escape it.

It's #organic man
#hemp 🙂 😆
#bass #amplification #eminence

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h8zW_bFvW2k&feature=share #amplifier #amplifiers #amplification #fender #guitar #music #equipment #bassman

How does #centrosome #amplification -common in #cancer- promote #cellmigration through confined spaces?
Susana Godinho and colleagues show that it alters intracellular organization via effects on #tubulin #acetylation and #organelle transport along #microtubules
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022112812

Used the day for some guitar gear tuning and sound experiments. Pedal board rearranged, amp set up for a recording session next Wednesday. 🎸🎚️🔊🎶

...and it is at least five degrees cooler in our rehearsal rooms. 🥵☝️

#guitars #soundeffects #amplification #band

In summary, the key #impact is that the #study finds evidence that #Twitter's #algorithm may contribute to increased affective #polarization and amplification of emotionally charged content by selectively highlighting divisive tweets, even though it optimizes for user engagement. This highlights the need to better incorporate #user stated preferences into #algorithms to reduce #amplification of #problematic #content.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941

#SocialMedia #Amplification #Algorithms: "Research on amplification has been held back by a lack of consistent definitions, and a corresponding shortage of practical metrics. In part, this is because “amplification” involves many moving pieces. We propose relative algorithmic amplification to emphasize the need to choose a baseline (relative) and factor out user behavior (algorithmic).

This definition has the great advantage of being clear about what the quantity to be measured actually is. But as the above discussion shows, that doesn’t mean it’s easy to measure. If “amplification” is something different from “distribution” we need to answer “amplified compared to what?” And if we want to use “amplification” to understand the effect of algorithm design, we need to be able to separate it somehow from user behavior, both in the short run and the long run. It may seem that our preferred definition brings in a lot of complexity – but this is a feature, not a bug. Amplification is an inherently complex idea, so it’s better that we use a definition that tells us where the difficulties lie."

https://techpolicy.press/making-amplification-measurable/

I am definitely giving up trying to promote my writing on #birdsite. And that’s not because I don’t recognise the rules of the game there.

But precisely because I understand the rules of the game #twitter is pressing on me to shape my writing to satisfy it’s need for #algorithmic #amplification, I refrain from writing there.

I write about academic & complex stuff, which #twitter doesn’t give a damn about. To adapt to the ”rules” there, would hurt my message.

'Japanese Otacoustic Fan' (1882). Developed at a Tokyo institute for the deaf, these fans of lacquered sheets used bone conduction to amplify sound.

#Hearing #HearingAid #HearingLoss #JapaneseDesign #BoneConduction #Otacoustic #Fan #Amplification #Skull #SoundBeyondMusic #CultureOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound

Looking for more fundamental understanding of electronic components I came across this excellent and accessible explanation by Uncle Doug of guitar amplification with diodes and triodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5SSKX74DKg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901iaPVVzY0
#electronics #amplification #guitar #uncledoug

Some fuzzy algorithmic concepts might hinder law definitions...

What Will “Amplification” Mean in Court?
https://techpolicy.press/what-will-amplification-mean-in-court

“Amplification” is a common term in discussions about how best to manage and regulate social media platforms, and is starting to appear in proposed laws. We’re not convinced this is a good idea, because the meaning of this word is not always clear.

#ai #algorithm #amplification #language #law #regulation #social_media

@rodhilton it’s an #amplification game! Personally, I always felt de-amplified on TW.

Demonstration of a marvelously peculiar sound instrument from an 1880s Scientific American.

Many sound-amplification devices appear in the magazine's pages at this time...a heady era of invention.

#SciComm #Amplification #ScientificAmerican #Illustration #Engraving #Mustache

“Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter By Rumman is now on Mastodon and Luca”
“Tweets about political content from elected officials, regardless of party or whether the party is in power, do see algorithmic amplification when compared to political content on the reverse chronological timeline.”
#ML / #ethics / #amplification <https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-politicalcontent>

The world’s first portable electric megaphone was produced by Japanese company TOA in 1954.

#megaphone #bullhorn #electric #electricity #portable #PortableSound #TOA #1950s #1950sfashion #Japan #amplification #amplifier #loud #sound #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic

The a.gup.pe instance allows easy group forming simply by @ naming a group. It will boost any mention to all followers of the group profile. This re-introduces the type of asymmetrical amplification that birdsite has but is absent here. In the short term it may aid discovery, but will be noisy in the long term.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/11/repeaters-as-mastodon-groups/

#amplification #groupforming #mastodon

From 28 Oct: Meet the Windows servers that have been fueling massive DDoSes for months - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) A small retail business in North Africa,... https://arstechnica.com/?p=1893470 #active-directory #amplification-attacks #biz-&-it #directory-controllers #distributed-denial-of-service-attacks #features #microsoft #reflection-attacks

Looking forward to enjoy the sound of 10Meg input impedance of this SchattenDesign preamp-beast on my contact mics.

#schattendesign #preamp #diy #micropre #contactmic #amplification #highimpedance #10m @diy_instruments
@audiopro

#dailygeekshow #InterNet "Marshall McLuhan, le visionnaire qui avait prédit les dérives d'Internet il y a plus de 50 ans" #MarshallMcLuhan #VillageGlobal #amplification ... https://dailygeekshow.com/marshall-mcluhan-visionnaire-internet-fondements-derives/

#dailygeekshow #InterNet "Marshall McLuhan, le visionnaire qui avait prédit les dérives d'Internet il y a plus de 50 ans" #MarshallMcLuhan #VillageGlobal #amplification ... https://dailygeekshow.com/marshall-mcluhan-visionnaire-internet-fondements-derives/