When I come up with "great" exam questions, only a handful of students get the correct answer while the remaining students misunderstand the question. Same thing happens on social media. Prior to Twitter's full-on death spiral, I tweeted a quiz on the MVLEM element, a formulation available in OpenSees for modeling shear walls. Only 5 … Continue reading I Missed Again
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Don’t Delete This Bot
If the new CEO of Twitter comes for the bots, @OpenSeesTweets, the OpenSees Twitter Bot, will go away. So, let's take a moment to reflect on the growth of followers since the bot's inception in December 2019. 439 followers as of today. I occasionally have to update the bot to remove spammy tweets, but it's … Continue reading Don’t Delete This Bot
Fuzzy Zero Length Logic
There's a few interpretations floating around regarding the length--real or implied--of zero length elements in OpenSees. So, I made a Twitter poll to assess popular opinion. https://twitter.com/mikusscott/status/1516085441895624705 Despite being an "easy" question, only 50% of respondents chose the correct answer. Like "When was the War of 1812?", the question gives it away--zero length elements have … Continue reading Fuzzy Zero Length Logic
Start Over Again
This week is International Blog Delurking Week. If you read the blog but never comment, please say Hello in the Comments section below and let us know how you came across the blog. Don't be shy. Frequent and infrequent commenters are also welcome to say Hello and give their back stories. Now, on to important … Continue reading Start Over Again
Five Tweets from the Bot
The OpenSees Twitter bot is almost two years old. The bot has 356 followers, compared to 200 followers a year ago. Impressive OpenSees work continues to be tweeted. Here are five of the most recent tweets gleaned by @OpenSeesTweets. https://twitter.com/NHE_SimCenter/status/1460763867047501831 https://twitter.com/ccaprani/status/1459045946159812608 https://twitter.com/mikusscott/status/1451608792135651330 https://twitter.com/SilviaMazzoni_/status/1450195727783641088 https://twitter.com/6icees2021/status/1447127835261480960
It’s a Fine Line
The OpenSees Twitter bot started in December 2019 but didn't "like and retweet" #OpenSees tweets retroactively. So, out of curiosity, I searched Twitter the other day for the first use of the #OpenSees hashtag. This tweet from 2011 came up as the winner: https://twitter.com/drescolano/status/45099760868274176 Not an uncommon sentiment. Now, ten years later, I asked David … Continue reading It’s a Fine Line
Twitter Bot 200
The OpenSees Twitter bot, the one that likes and retweets any tweet with the hashtags #OpenSees or #OpenSeesPy, passed the 200 follower mark recently after just under a year in service. The bot's mission is to share with the Twitterverse all the cool things people do with OpenSees. Some day I'd like to create a … Continue reading Twitter Bot 200
OpenSeesPy Is Not Terrible for the Environment
This tweet made the rounds in late September, early October. Those new to OpenSeesPy, or unaware of how it works, might have been alarmed. I'm here to reassure you that OpenSeesPy is not a huge CO2 producer like native Python code. https://twitter.com/R_Trotta/status/1309457430267523072 OpenSeesPy is C++ code that calls the Python C/C++ API so that you … Continue reading OpenSeesPy Is Not Terrible for the Environment
OpenSees Twitter Bot
Twitter fascinates me. Not only because it's a platform where many academics disseminate the latest additions to their CVs, but also because it has an Application Programming Interface (API) through which you can automate all kinds of stuff. One cool thing I've come across is bots that automatically retweet and/or favorite tweets that contain specific … Continue reading OpenSees Twitter Bot
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