Way back in 2013 I did a blog post about visualizing Cody problems. The idea was to take various metrics for each problem and let people plot them in different ways. The resulting visualization is… 更多内容 >>

This is a story about how ideas  and code bounce around our shared social spaces. This one went from Twitter to GitHub to my computer and now to you in my blog. Social serendipity has really been… 更多内容 >>

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, engineers and scientists are finding themselves suddenly working from home or other remote locations. We’d like to help you continue to use MATLAB and Simulink… 更多内容 >>

Where I live, in the northeast part of the United States, we have a special storm that goes by the name “nor’easter”. Do we call it that because that’s where we live? No. We… 更多内容 >>

Quick, what’s the square root of -1? Okay, I know. That’s an easy one. But how about the square root of i? If it’s been a while since you took complex analysis, you might have to… 更多内容 >>

February 29th is right around the corner. It’s been hibernating for the past three years, snuggling in its secret den between February 28th and March 1st. But it’s just about to emerge… 更多内容 >>

This is what happens when two logarithmic spirals love each other very much.
% Vary k from 1.5 to 3.5
k = 1.5;
t = linspace(0,k*pi,200);

r = exp(t);
x = r.*cos(t);
y =… 更多内容 >>

It’s late October. The nights are getting longer (for us North Americans, anyway), and vampire processes are sucking the life from your machine. Even a hard power cycle won’t banish the… 更多内容 >>

This is Hollis Potter (he’s the one on the right). He works on the Community team here at MathWorks. On the table next to Hollis is an L-shaped membrane, the same shape that forms the MathWorks… 更多内容 >>

One of the nice things about showing up early is getting things named after you.
See that bouncy gazelle over there? Let’s name it after the intrepid Joseph Thomson. That guy’s been back… 更多内容 >>