Tootfinder

👏 This is an appreciation #meme for @… and everything he does for #dotnet as an ecosystem.

Success
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived ~ This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Black Flag – “Thirsty And Miserable” b/w “Life of Pain” (1981)
7", 45 RPM
Limited promo giveaway for Licorice Pizza stores
Unicorn Records / SST Records
This is the most valuable disc I’ve found in my collection so far (per Discogs) 😃 It’s in pretty good shape for being kept in just the paper sleeve all these years.
700 copies were given away as a "special gift" to customers who purchased a Black Flag ticket at Licorice Pizza record stores "in…

NFL community reacts to Aaron Donald's retirement on social media https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-community-reacts-to-aaron-donald-s-retirement-on-social-media

NFL community reacts to Aaron Donald's retirement on social media
Aaron Donald's retirement announcement rocked the NFL world on Friday. Here's a collection of appreciation posts from the NFL community that flooded social media.

Here's some love for some of our fabulous #UniversityOfGeorgia interns and student employees, a bunch of whom are graduating today. https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/20

Reminder, today is withCheckedContinuation appreciation day.

Black Flag – “Thirsty And Miserable” b/w “Life of Pain” (1981)
7", 45 RPM
Limited promo giveaway for Licorice Pizza stores
Unicorn Records / SST Records
This is the most valuable disc I’ve found in my collection so far (per Discogs) 😃 It’s in pretty good shape for being kept in just the paper sleeve all these years.
700 copies were given away as a "special gift" to customers who purchased a Black Flag ticket at Licorice Pizza record stores "in…

I plaster my stuff everywhere I can online, sometimes I even mention it at work when I'm called out.
I low-key crave for appreciation and attention even if I never state it directly.
And when I actually get it, I feel like the Coyote catching the Road Runner.
God effin' dammit, brain. Make up your mind.

#SNL actually took the time to listen to teachers. This is the teacher appreciation we really needed.
"Covid broke something we can't fix." 🫠
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttska8oXZP

A Purim note from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Rabbi Gurary from Chabad at UB.
(#Mazeldon

A Judge and a Jew - Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters
Ginsburg, who passed away on September 18 at the age of 87, was memorialized as a brilliant jurist, a tireless advocate for women’s rights, and a liberal icon with rock-star status—the Notorious RBG. Her Jewish identity, however, proved harder to pin down.

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic

Random appreciation post:
It seems like every time I look, OpenAlex is even better than it was before (and it's been really good for a long while now). The data gets better, the interface gets better, all of it. Bit by bit OpenAlex is replacing pretty much every other data source in my bibliometric research.
(If you don't know the project, check it out:

Unskippable Intros Hall of Fame
Just a short note of appreciation of the opening credits to
⭐️Halt and Catch Fire⭐️
director : Patrick #Clair
music : #Trentemøller

John Barth, a Novelist Who Found Possibility in a ‘Used-Up’ Form - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/review/john-barth-appreciation.html

John Barth, a Novelist Who Found Possibility in a ‘Used-Up’ Form
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.

Deming’s Management System, as expressed in his book: The New Economics has four interdependent parts:
- Appreciation for a System (systems thinking)
- Knowledge about Variation (see: variation definition)
- Theory of Knowledge
- Psychology (the human element of management systems)
...
With, even a fairly simple understanding of the theory of knowledge the effectiveness of management improvement efforts are greatly increased...

imho, this image - the MAU curve of lemmy is the big news on the #fediverse. While also #mastodon and other platforms experienced peaks last summer, #lemmy is the only one that is consistently on the rise in 2024. Arguably, this is thanks to particular #affordances, like the fact that older posts of wider appreciation do not get overwhelmed in feeds.
More charts at https://fedidb.org

AI & beer 😃 (no LLMs involved)
#ai #beer

Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning - Nature Communications
Perception and appreciation of food flavour depends on many factors, posing a challenge for effective prediction. Here, the authors combine extensive chemical and sensory analyses of 250 commercial Belgian beers to train machine learning models that enable flavour and consumer appreciation prediction.

“I understand that this period of change may be challenging and that patience is not easy when expecting to be paid, however, I want to express my sincere appreciation for your understanding and support as we navigate through this transition.”
#tesla #ev

An Eclipse, A Good Book, & Searching for Galveston’s Lost
Bob shares his lukewarm anticipation for the upcoming solar eclipse, delves into a genealogical mystery possibly tied to the Galveston Hurricane, and reviews "The Reluctant Coroner" with appreciation for its depth.
https://ww…

An Eclipse, A Good Book, & Searching for Galveston's Lost – Bob Mueller
This week, I explore my thoughts about the solar eclipse in Oklahoma, genealogy puzzles, and a review of "The Reluctant Coroner."

Fediverse appreciation post.

I don’t know about the apps you’re using but at no point in the Fediverse have I lost track of a post I was reading because the feed auto-refreshed against my will.

Which happens to me regularly on LinkedIn. (And I remember happened on the other platforms I’ve left.) Which should make you acknowledge – if you haven’t done so already – how that is a design feature on the other platforms, not a bug.

Monographs that basically say "trust me, I'm a historian" re: sources and methodology drive me nuts. You made decisions about what collections to consult and what evidence to use, decisions that when explained help the reader evaluate your argument. It wouldn't kill you to write a few paragraphs on this process. Those who aren't interested in the method will skip it and those who are will have a deeper appreciation for all of your hard work. @…

Remembering Carl Erskine: An appreciation of a legendary Brooklyn Dodger
#Baseball #Dodgers #TheAthletic

#TerriIvens appreciation post
Season 3 Episode 6 "Showdown at Malibu Beach High"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

#goodmorning friends. Here's one more from my january #photography walk.
On the way back, I had finished the photo-shoot mentally already when I came to that bridge.
I decided to climb down to the stream and just try a couple of

I re-discovered one of the blogs I enjoyed most, after "misplacing" the address.
https://coilhouse.net/
If anybody knows the authors personally, please convey all my love and appreciation.

What? It's Bat Appreciation Day? Why didn't any of you tell me???
I got this cute print recently that includes a bat. It is the most recent bat-related thing I've acquired I think.
https://www.drawnbynana.com/shop/p/protect-our-pollinators-print<…

Validation of ML-UQ calibration statistics using simulated reference values: a sensitivity analysis
Pascal Pernot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00423 https://…

Validation of ML-UQ calibration statistics using simulated reference values: a sensitivity analysis
Some popular Machine Learning Uncertainty Quantification (ML-UQ) calibration statistics do not have predefined reference values and are mostly used in comparative studies. In consequence, calibration is almost never validated and the diagnostic is left to the appreciation of the reader. Simulated reference values, based on synthetic calibrated datasets derived from actual uncertainties, have been proposed to palliate this problem. As the generative probability distribution for the simulation of…

I dedicate this award to the brave men and women devising workaround ways to run aging games--on Steam and around the world.

QB Carson Wentz: Big piece of puzzle for joining Chiefs was 'winning culture' https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-carson-wentz-big-piece-of-puzzle-for-joining-chiefs-was-winning-culture

QB Carson Wentz: Big piece of puzzle for joining Chiefs was 'winning culture'
Having gone from the No. 2 overall pick in 2016 and one-time MVP candidate to a clipboard-carrying journeyman, Carson Wentz's newest marriage as a backup QB for the Chiefs came about due to his appreciation for Kansas City's winning ways.

1/ Having a crack at a bit of #mindfulness #Journaling
Prompt 1) Expressing gratitude: Reflect on the things you are grateful for in your life. Write about the people, experiences, or aspects of your life that bring you joy and appreciation.
I'm grateful for:
* My beautifu…

#TerriIvens appreciation post
Season 3 Episode 6 "Showdown at Malibu Beach High"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

Validation of ML-UQ calibration statistics using simulated reference values: a sensitivity analysis
Pascal Pernot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00423 https://…

Validation of ML-UQ calibration statistics using simulated reference values: a sensitivity analysis
Some popular Machine Learning Uncertainty Quantification (ML-UQ) calibration statistics do not have predefined reference values and are mostly used in comparative studies. In consequence, calibration is almost never validated and the diagnostic is left to the appreciation of the reader. Simulated reference values, based on synthetic calibrated datasets derived from actual uncertainties, have been proposed to palliate this problem. As the generative probability distribution for the simulation of…

1/ Having a crack at a bit of #mindfulness #Journaling
Prompt 1) Expressing gratitude: Reflect on the things you are grateful for in your life. Write about the people, experiences, or aspects of your life that bring you joy and appreciation.
I'm grateful for:
* My beautifu…

A deep appreciation for the long term needs of your customers and potential customers should guide where in the system to continually improve. And my belief on how to continual improve is to create and continually improving management system with principles of experimentation... an understanding of the organization as a system and respect for people as principles to be guided by to achieve continual improvement...

Customer delight requires understanding your customers needs and desires. Often even your customers don’t understand these well. Businesses that have a deep appreciation for what their customers, and potential customers, desire and that create systems to deliver solutions that delight those customers benefit greatly from that effort.