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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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 =… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>

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… 続きを読む >>