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Code for Sonic and Ten Sonic Movies 2

Two previous blog posts, Dec. 12, 2024 and Nov. 16, 2024, introduced "Sonic", my new tool for incorporating sound in videos. Today's blog post includes a link to the MATLAB source code for Sonic, as well as links to new versions of ten examples.... read more >>

Sonic Adds Sound to Logo, Recamán, Chaos

I introduced Sonic in my blog post last month. Today I will use Sonic to add sound to the graphics from three old posts, the vibrating L-shaped membrane, the Recamán sequence and the chaotic behavior of the Swinging Sticks.... read more >>

Lights, Camera, Action — and Sound 4

I am very excited to incorporate sound in animations. This blog post has five examples with links to videos enclosed in '+ + + +'.... read more >>

Redheffer and Mertens, Accelerated 4

Shortly after I published the second post about the Mertens conjecture, a reader's comment suggested a new approach to computing Redheffer determinants and the Mertens function. It is now possible to compute a half-million values of the Mertens function in about five hours.... read more >>

Redheffer and Mertens, Continued 3

Shortly after I posted Redheffer, Mertens and One-Million Dollars a few days ago, Mathworks' Pat Quillen made an important observation about computing the Mertens function.... read more >>

Redheffer, Mertens and One-Million Dollars 1

I didn't know anything about these topics until a couple of weeks ago. Now I can't stop thinking about them.... read more >>

NA_Digest and NA_Net 1

The NA-Digest is an electronic newsletter for the numerical analysis and scientific software community. The NA-Digest is one of world's first examples of social networking. The Digest is one of the forces that makes our community a living, viable community.... read more >>

A Sixty-Year Old Program for Predicting the Future 2

The graphics in my post about R^2 were produced by an updated version of a sixty-year old program involving the U.S. census. Originally, the program was based on census data from 1900 to 1960 and sought to predict the population in 1970. The software back then was written in Fortran, the predominate technical programming language a half century ago. I have updated the MATLAB version of the program so that it now uses census data from 1900 to 2020.... read more >>

Closest Pair of Points Problem

The Closest Pair of Points problem is a standard topic in an algorithms course today, but when I taught such a course fifty years ago, the algorithm was not yet known.... read more >>

Exponential Fitting, Separable Least Squares, and Quahogs 1

We have been investigating a recent bug report about fitnlm, the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox function for robust fitting of nonlinear models.... read more >>

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