
Mike Croucher
I write The MATLAB Blog at MathWorks and specialize in High Performance Computing, Research Software Engineering and Machine Learning. You can also follow me at BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/walkingrandomly.bsky.social
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Blade.stl missing from PDE toolbox
If you run the command openExample('pde/ThermalStressAnalysisOfJetEngineTurbineBladeExample') you'll Blade.stl along with the ...
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Algorithm used to implement the function qtdecomp?
There is a description of the algorithm on the documentation page qtdecomp. It says "The qtdecomp function divides a square ima...
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Faster Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function (ECDF)
In your original code you didn't define n so I might have got the definition wrong here but since its just a scalar it won't aff...
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On love and research software: Sharing code with your Valentine
I've been sharing mathematical equations with some sort of connection to Valentine's day for a long time now. Indeed, the...
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How to run local DeepSeek models and use them with MATLAB
Almost immediately after the DeepSeek-R1 AI models were made available to the world, people started asking how you can use...
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Inquiry Regarding Minor Variations in MATLAB GPU Computation
It is difficult to comment without seeing the code but the most general thing I can think of saying goes as follows: A calculat...
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Visualizing yesterday’s earthquake in Boston using MATLAB and a Raspberry Shake
During an online meeting with my colleagues in Boston yesterday, some of them were rather startled when their offices...
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Difference between RMSE of Curve fitter and calculated RMSE in MS Excel
First, I wanted to confirm your manual calculation of RMSE using the formula you gave but using MATLAB instead of Excel. Here's ...
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How do I programmatically switch to Dark Mode (Dark Theme) in R2025a?
This is supported from R2025a onwards. This is what you need to do >> s = settings; >> s.matlab.appearance.MATLABTheme.Persona...
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How do I programmatically switch to Dark Mode (Dark Theme) in R2025a?
I am running R2025a pre-release. What are the commands to switch to dark mode?
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Debugging support in the MATLAB extension for Visual Studio Code
Since its April 2023 launch, the MATLAB extension for Visual Studio Code has been extremely popular with over 329,000...
2 months ago

How do get all of my python libraries in matlab?
Your python environment looks strange to me. I've never seen pythonw.exe used in MATLAB Python environment. It's usually python...
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Is there a student version of the Aerospace Toolbox?
There is no free student version of MATLAB but there is a version that is heavily discounted. Go to MATLAB for Students - MATLAB...
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I'm trying to make a simple calculator for circuits. And I can not figure out how to take the answer and limit to only like two numbers after the decimal place.
This page on the documentation will help explain the details: Formatting Text TotalResistance = 186.66; fprintf("The total res...
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GPU programming for Mac M1
I have an M2 Mac and I have just bought an M4 Mac for my wife. I love the hardware on these machines, its superb! I wrote the bl...
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Maximum value in a matrix
Find the maximum value in the given matrix. For example, if A = [1 2 3; 4 7 8; 0 9 1]; then the answer is 9.
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Solving Higher-Order ODEs in MATLAB
In a comment to last year's introduction to the new ODE solution framework in MATLAB, Ron asked if I could provide an...
2 months ago

Adding Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox to existing MATLAB
In 2024, the way I'd do this is with the mpm download command on a machine with an internet connection and then transfer the res...
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Working with big tall arrays in an HPC environment
Hi Sebastian I can't comment on the Tall Array situation right now but I'm zooming in on this comment: I am assigning 37 cores...
2 months ago | 0
Why does the validation loss first decrease and then increase after about 7 epochs while the training loss keeps decreasing?
I think you are right, this is an example of overfitting. There is no guarenteed way to fix it but there are several things you ...
2 months ago | 0
Vectorized code slower than loops
Another option, if you have the hardware, is to use a GPU. Here, you want to do as much vectorisation as you can. Using my des...
3 months ago | 1
Vectorized code slower than loops
I made a couple more modifications and came up with a double for-loop that is fastest. One thing that I'd like to point out her...
3 months ago | 1
How can I use the LAPACK implementations included in Apple Accelerate Framework with MATLAB R2024b?
You can switch the BLAS to Apple Accelerate as described in Life in the fast lane: Making MATLAB even faster on Apple Silicon wi...
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Massive slowdown for Apple Silicon in computing SVD
Hi I have reproduced your times on my M2 MacbookPro using R2024b using both the default BLAS and also the Apple Silicon BLAS as...
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NumPy in MATLAB
I've been a user of Python for almost as long as I've been a user of MATLAB and am very comfortable with both ecosystems. As...
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20 years of supercomputing with MATLAB
While prepping for the SC24 supercomputing conference with the rest of the MathWorks crew I idly wondered when Parallel...
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Linear Programming, the HiGHS Optimization library and MATLAB
What is linear programming?Linear programming (LP) is a mathematical method used to determine the best possible outcome...
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Vector creation
Create a vector using square brackets going from 1 to the given value x in steps on 1. Hint: use increment.
4 months ago