I had an interesting encounter with a colleague, Bob, last week. We were talking about timing some calculations and we realized that the written code was actually measuring... read more >>

People have different ideas about what costs a lot, in terms of memory, in MATLAB. And sometimes people don't know the details. Today I am going to talk about when MATLAB... read more >>

Since there seems to be so much interest in the topic of going beyond scalar expansion, it seems worth talking about yet some other ways to achieve the same goals. I am very appreciative of the... read more >>

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Some languages provide ways to store results of costly calculations so if the calculation had been performed before, it need not be repeated when requested later. There is a way to accomplish this... read more >>

A while ago, a colleague needed to use the sinc function to interpolate some channel data posted by the IEEE 802.15.3a working group. The files they supplied were large and the interpolation took a... read more >>