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May 3rd, 2010

Weekend Winners

The weekend is over, and we have winners for the Saturday Leap and Sunday Push prizes. As of this writing, we have just over 2500 entries to the overall contest, and it’s remarkable to see how much of that action came over the weekend. There were some amazing back-and-forth battles between contest luminaries such as Sergey Y., srach, Jan Langer, and Amitabh Verma. But in the end, Alex P. wins the Saturday Leap prize for filter adjusting 03, a dramatic improvement that arrived only 41 minutes after midnight UTC, very early Saturday morning. According to his profile, Alex P. lives close to the Greenwich Meridian, so he must have been up late. Congrulations Alex!

If the Leap is a sprint that can be won with a single inspired entry, the Sunday Push is more of a grueling marathon. Only someone who grinds away a good part of their weekend is going to take the prize. So a special congratulations to Push winner Abhisek Ukil who managed to take the lead 14 separate times with his Pori* series. Now I want to know what Pori stands for…

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By Ned Gulley

Ned is part of the MATLAB Central team.

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