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Celebrating Spring: MATLAB Tulip

Posted by Mike Croucher, May 15, 2024

Joining us again is Eric Ludlam, development manager of MATLAB’s charting team. Discover more about Eric on our contributors bio page. Last time Eric was here, Daffodils were on his mind. Now, he... read more >>

Category:: Fun,; Graphics,; Guest posts

Should we ban tic/toc? 29

Posted by Mike Croucher, May 7, 2024

Yesterday morning, I overheard my kids talking about a tic/toc ban which surprised me because they are not MATLAB users and not particularly well connected at MathWorks. How would they know about... read more >>

Category:: Best Practice,; Fun,; performance

Leading by Example: How lively examples help MATLAB community toolboxes grow their capabilities & communities

Posted by Mike Croucher, May 1, 2024

Today's post is from Vijay Iyer, a principal academic discipline manager (Neuroscience) who is also leading the MATLAB Community Toolbox program. Over my past few years at MathWorks, I’ve been... read more >>

Category:: Community Toolboxes,; Guest posts,; MathWorks Community,; MATLAB Online,; Open Science,; Open Source

Faster Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) solvers and Sensitivity Analysis of Parameters: Introducing SUNDIALS support in MATLAB 34

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 17, 2024

Late last year I introduced the new solution framework for solving Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) that made its debut in MATLAB R2023b. I demonstrated how it allowed users to do all kinds of... read more >>

Category:: MATLAB Programming Language,; New Features,; ode,; Open Source,; performance

Two of my ‘White Whale’ features have been added to MATLAB R2024a 16

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 10, 2024

Everyone has them! MATLAB features that you've been requesting for ages. You email MathWorks support, you post long rants on discussion forums, you even join MathWorks and spam the internal... read more >>

Category:: New Features

How we made a better backslash in MATLAB R2024a 4

Posted by Mike Croucher, April 2, 2024

Few things say 'MATLAB' better than the backslash. So good, we put it on a T-shirt.As most people will be aware, the backslash operator solves a system of linear equations. That is, it finds the x... read more >>

Category:: BLAS / LAPACK,; linear algebra,; MATLAB Programming Language,; New Features,; performance

The Steve Eddins Interview: 30 years of MathWorking 6

Posted by Mike Croucher, March 28, 2024

This month, Steve Eddins is retiring from MathWorks after 30+ years on the job. When he joined, MathWorks was only 10 years old and had 190 staff. Recently, we just celebrated our 40th anniversary... read more >>

Category:: Interviews,; MathWorks Community

MATLAB R2024a has been released: Here are my favourite updates 7

Posted by Mike Croucher, March 26, 2024

The latest version of MATLAB is now available for download and it's our biggest update yet. I have to tell you, I'm really excited by this one! It has got some features that I've been wanting for for... read more >>

Category:: New Features,; New Release

Understanding Tolerances in Ordinary Differential Equation Solvers 3

Posted by Mike Croucher, March 20, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Michael Hosea, a numerical analyst at MathWorks. He works on MATLAB Coder and on MATLAB’s ODE and integral solvers.MATLAB's ODE solvers have tolerances that the user can... read more >>

Category:: Best Practice,; Guest posts,; ode,; Tutorials

Pi day: Using AI, GPUs and Quantum computing to compute pi

Posted by Mike Croucher, March 14, 2024

14th March is Pi Day, celebrated by geeks everywhere and a great excuse for technical computing bloggers to publish something tenuously related to pi and their favorite technology of choice. This is... read more >>

Category:: artificial intelligence (AI),; Fun,; GPU,; performance,; quantum computing