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\r\nI use MATLAB a lot, and odds are pretty good you do to. I went to some fancy-pants engineering schools, but I am pretty sure I am not an engineer. I speak “engineer” as a second language but MATLAB is my first language. A lot of what I do here for MathWorks is show people how to translate the languages of “engineer”, “science”, and “finance” into MATLAB.\r\n
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\r\nIn engineering school, I felt like I was a “programmer”. Relative to my colleagues, I was. I now work at a software company and recently made an attempt at learning Ruby on Rails. That quickly cleared up any illusion that I am a Real Programmer. I am a MATLAB user that understands more programming than I can actually do myself.\r\n
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\r\nEvery job I have had since I started college I got because I could use MATLAB: computer lab monitor, engineering co-op, research assistant, three time MATLAB textbook author, graduate student and finally MathWorker.\r\n
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\r\nWith such a heavy investment in MATLAB, it is natural to as why? It comes down to that “Ah Ha moment.” I am pretty sure you have had that. You know<\/em> there is a pattern in that data… clickety, clackety, F5 and “Ah Ha” there is that pattern. \r\n \r\n \r\nSometimes I am just curious, “How much money do I save if I pay an extra $20 a month on my mortgage each month?” Yes, I know there are calculators on the web that will do that, but will they plot it exactly like I want, plus allow me to increase the amount by a dollar every month? clickety, clackety, F5 and “Ah Ha” now I know.\r\n \r\n \r\nI use MATLAB because I like to feel really clever and MATLAB lets me do that faster and more easily than any other piece of software I have ever found.\r\n \r\n \r\nThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’ <\/strong>\r\n \r\nIsaac Asimov\r\n \r\n \r\nWhy do you use MATLAB?\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You and I are both here because we use MATLAB. \r\n\r\n\r\nI use MATLAB a lot, and odds are pretty good you do to. I went to some fancy-pants engineering schools, but I am pretty sure I am not an… read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}