I’ve started two new Twitter accounts this week: @DSP_fact and @MusicTheoryTip. DSP_fact is for DSP, digital signal processing: filters, Fourier analysis, convolution, sampling, wavelets, etc. MusicTheoryTip is for basic music theory with a little bias toward jazz. It’ll tweet about…
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Twitter account for differential equations
I’ve started a new Twitter account: @diff_eq. This account posts once or twice a day about ordinary and partial differential equations. More daily tip accounts here.
Twitter accounts
Last January there were 100,000 followers across all of my daily tip Twitter accounts. A year later there are now about 200,000 followers. Here are a few similar Twitter accounts that other people run. SciProgramming, a new account for scientific…
Are tweets more accurate than science papers?
John Myles White brings up an interesting question on Twitter: Ioannidis thinks most published biological research findings are false. Do you think >50% of tweets are false? I’m inclined to think tweets may be more accurate than research papers, mostly…
Science twitter feed
I’m changing my electricity and magnetism twitter account, @GrokEM, into more of a general science account. The new name is @ScienceTip. The image for the account is a helium spectrum. Here’s a list of my twelve daily tip Twitter accounts.
Twitter milestone
There are now over 100,000 followers across my various daily tip Twitter accounts. The three most popular are CompSciFact, AlgebraFact, and ProbFact. The newest account GrokEM has the least followers for now. Thank you everyone for following and for providing…
Unix tool tips
I’ve renamed my SedAwkTip twitter account to UnixToolTip to reflect its new scope. If you were following SedAwkTip, there’s no need to do anything. You’ll just see a different name. I have about a week’s worth of sed and awk…
More than sed and awk
I’m going to expand the content of my SedAwkTip twitter account. I’ve covered the most commonly used features of sed and awk, and rather than go into more advanced/obscure features of these languages, I’m going to add tips on other…
RLangTip changing hands
I’ve decided to hand my Twitter account RLangTip over to the folks at Revolution Analytics starting next week. I thought it would be better to give the account to someone who is more enthusiastic about R than I am, and…
How to subscribe to a Twitter account via RSS
Twitter has recently made it more difficult to subscribe to accounts via RSS. This article that goes into the details of the problem and offers a solution. At least for now, you can construct a URL to a Twitter account…
New Twitter account: RLangTip
I’m starting a new daily tip Twitter account: RLangTip. This account will have one regularly scheduled tip per day, Monday through Friday, on the R language and related topics. I’ll also throw in a few unscheduled tweets now and then.…
Daily tip accounts broader than names imply
Some of my daily tip Twitter accounts are a little broader than their names imply. Account names need to be fairly short, so they can’t be too descriptive. Here are fuller descriptions of some of the accounts. TeXtip is primarily…
Scientific Python on Twitter
Next week I’m starting a new daily tip Twitter account: @SciPyTip. This account will post on things related to scientific computing in Python, including the SciPy library, related software, and scientific computing in general. Full list of daily tip accounts
Keyboard shortcuts for Mac, Linux, and Windows
As many of you know, I have a Twitter account @SansMouse that posts one Windows keyboard shortcut per day. I’m starting to experiment with adding Mac and Linux keyboard shortcuts as well. For Linux, I’ll stick to Ubuntu with the…
Daily tips update
RegexTip, a Twitter account for learning regular expressions, starts over today with basics and will progress to more advanced properties over time. SansMouse, an account for Windows keyboard shortcuts, started over with basics two weeks ago. Both RegexTip and SansMouse…
