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Dallas Cowboys kick off Heroes Appreciation Day with World War 2 aircraft flyover https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-kick-off-heroes-appreciation-day-world-war-2-aircraft-flyover

We recently hosted Heroes Appreciation Day to recognize our military members!🇺🇸 | ​⁠@usaa https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rrjpq4AC0Gw

Please do say or write some nice things to your administrators, as today it's System Administrator Appreciation Day
https://sysadminday.com/
Most of the time, you won't notice, that there is somebody working very hard so that you don't notice.

Basic scientists' disproportionate impact amid applied drift reveals structural asymmetry in science
Rikuei Kaku, Mikako Bito, Keita Nishimoto, Ichiro Sakata, Kimitaka Asatani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530

Basic scientists' disproportionate impact amid applied drift reveals structural asymmetry in science
Despite broad acclaim for basic research, science is undergoing an applied shift that marginalizes basic scientists. This gap reflects an incomplete understanding of their distinctive roles, which prevents translating philosophical appreciation into effective support. We introduce a scalable metric--the application score--to position research along the basic-applied spectrum and apply it to 62 million publications (1970-2023) to reveal the distinctive contributions of basic scientists. We find …

Sorry for flooding your feed last night with all my soft-dom appreciation, but honestly, my autistic brain just can’t resist a little (okay, a lot of) oversharing.
If you want the full story, I’ve got a whole pinned post about it right here: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/

Chapter 11 Students' interaction with and appreciation of automated informative tutoring feedback
Gerben van der Hoek, Bastiaan Heeren, Rogier Bos, Paul Drijvers, Johan Jeuring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15650

Chapter 11 Students' interaction with and appreciation of automated informative tutoring feedback
Computer aided formative assessment can be used to enhance a learning process, for instance by providing feedback. There are many design choices for delivering feedback, that lead to a feedback strategy. In an informative feedback strategy, students do not immediately receive information about the correct response, but are offered the opportunity to retry a task to apply feedback information. In this small-scale qualitative study, we explore an informative feedback strategy designed to offer a …

We really should have an "undo appreciation day".

I have a deep appreciation for bus drivers and the shit that they have to deal with after playing Bus Simulator 21. (BS27 was announced recently so I checked out the current game)

Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries,
if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.
As a composer of melodies, a constructor of textures, an arranger of vocal harmonies
— as someone who knew how to pull complicated elements together into songs that somehow felt inevitable
— he was up there with Phil Spector, George Martin and the Motown team of Holland-Dozier-Holland.

Brian Wilson's music epitomized the lore of Southern California
Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries, if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.

Jerry Jones Shares What Micah Parsons' Agent Told Him When Presented With Deal https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/jerry-jones-expresses-appreciation-micah-parsons-amid-heated-contract-talks

Optimal mean-variance portfolio selection under regime-switching-induced stock price shocks
Xiaomin Shi, Zuo Quan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19824 https://

Optimal mean-variance portfolio selection under regime-switching-induced stock price shocks
In this paper, we investigate mean-variance (MV) portfolio selection problems with jumps in a regime-switching financial model. The novelty of our approach lies in allowing not only the market parameters -- such as the interest rate, appreciation rate, volatility, and jump intensity -- to depend on the market regime, but also in permitting stock prices to experience jumps when the market regime switches, in addition to the usual micro-level jumps. This modeling choice is motivated by empirical …

“Toyama’s research reminds us that there are few one-size-fits-all solutions. If technology is going to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, it must be grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and an appreciation for cultural differences.”
— Bill Gates
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OpticalAging: Real-time Presbyopia Simulation for Inclusive Design via Tunable Lenses
Qing Zhang, Zixiong Su, Yoshihito Kondoh, Kazunori Asada, Thad Starner, Kai Kunze, Yuta Itoh, Jun Rekimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19307

OpticalAging: Real-time Presbyopia Simulation for Inclusive Design via Tunable Lenses
Presbyopia, a common age-related vision condition affecting most people as they age, often remains inadequately understood by those unaffected. To help bridge the gap between abstract accessibility knowledge and a more grounded appreciation of perceptual challenges, this study presents OpticalAging, an optical see-through simulation approach. Unlike VR-based methods, OpticalAging uses dynamically controlled tunable lenses to simulate the first-person visual perspective of presbyopia's distance-…

Today, the full-moon day of the fourth month ("aashaada") of the #Hindu luni-solar calendar, is "guru poornimaa" in #India and elsewhere.
In #Sanskrit, "guru" is teacher; "poornimaa" is full moon (literally "state of fullness"). The day honors teachers. So, as they say, "shree gurubhyoh namah", or "salutation to the teacher". 🙏
#Trivia: This year's "guru poornimaa" falls on Thursday ("guru waasara"), the weekly day of teachers. There's more to the weekday name "guru waasara", but that's for a rainy day. 🌈
#teachers #appreciation #gratitude