Mike Croucher

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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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Let's vibe code Christmas trees
I thought it would be fun to vibe code Christmas trees. Model: Claude Sonnet4.5 Prompt: Write a MATLAB script that draws a Chr...

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Join MathWorks at SuperComputing | SC25
SuperComputing (SC) is my favorite conference of the year and is one that MathWorks have been attending for over 20 years....

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MATLAB Copilot gets a new LLM – November 2025 updates
Bio: This blog post is co-authored by Seth DeLand, product manager for MATLAB Copilot. Seth has held various product...

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Exploring the MATLAB Model Context Protocol (MCP) Core Server with Claude Desktop
Over at the Artificial Intelligence blog my colleagues, Yann Debray and Akshay Paul, have announced the release of the...

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Meet the Spring 2025 MathWorks Research Proposal Winners
Back in March, we launched the MathWorks Call for Research Proposals which aims to support researchers who are tackling...

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Stop using -r to run MATLAB in batch jobs
You have a script, let's call it myscript.m, and you want to run it non-interactively, or as a 'batch-job'. If you are still...

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MacBook heats up with R25a and 25b
I am sorry you are experience this. I have an M2 Mac and am running various versions of MATLAB including R2025a and R2025b witho...

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What resources do you use to learn more about MATLAB and Simulink?
I recently published this blog post about resources to help people learn MATLAB https://blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/09/11/le...

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What enhancements to MATLAB's ODE capabilities would you like to see?
Helllo all I write The MATLAB Blog and have covered various enhancements to MATLAB's ODE capabilities over the last couple of y...

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Giving LLMs new capabilities: Ollama tool calling in MATLAB
At their heart, LLMs are just text generation machines that predict the next word based on patterns learned from huge...

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Vacuous Truth
all(logical.empty) Discuss!

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Learning MATLAB in 2025
I've been using MATLAB for almost 30 years, man and boy. In those 30 years, not only has MATLAB itself changed a lot but...

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Pizza!
Given a circular pizza with radius z and thickness a, return the pizza's volume. [ z is first input argument.] Non-scored bonus...

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Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4
Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4 So if n = 3, then return [1 2 2 3 3 3] And if n = 5, then return [1 2 2 3 3 3 4...

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Make the vector [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
In MATLAB, you create a vector by enclosing the elements in square brackets like so: x = [1 2 3 4] Commas are optional, s...

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AI-generated Quick Answers in the MATLAB Documentation
Here at MathWorks, we are all very proud of the quality of our documentation. We put a huge amount of effort into it and it...

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Add a “Swiftie” touch to your images with MATLAB
Today’s post is a bit different from my regular content over on the Startups, Accelerators, & Entrepreneurs Blog. I’m...

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Deep Learning training in MATLAB has just gotten faster on Apple Silicon Macs.
MATLAB R2025a has some great news for Apple Silicon Mac users: Apple Accelerate is the default BLAS. Since Apple...

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Matlab Support for float32/single and float16/half datatypes in GPU Sparse Matrix Multiplication
As of R2025a, single precision sparse matrices are now supported on CPU and GPU. More details available on this blog post New in...

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gpu support single sparse matrix?
Single Sparse is now supported, starting with R2025a on both the CPU and GPU. A detailed write up, including performance benchma...

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sparse matrix with data type as 'single'
This is now supported, starting from MATLAB R2025a. A detailed write up can be found at New in MATLAB: Single precision sparse m...

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LLMs with MATLAB updated to support GPT-5 models
Large Language Models (LLMs) with MATLAB was updated again today to support the newly released OpenAI models GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, ...

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New in MATLAB: Single precision sparse matrices
Sparse matrices have been in MATLAB for a long time but, up until now, the only types of sparse matrices you could create...

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Error in parallel pool
I'm curious, does a Thread pool work? parpool("Threads")

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Using gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models on your local machine with MATLAB
These got released last week and the process for using them on your local machine with MATLAB is very similar to how you use the...

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Video tutorial on getting started with testing in MATLAB
Long before I joined MathWorks, I was a member of the academic Research Software Engineering (RSE) community where part of my mi...

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The fastest way to solve small linear systems in MATLAB
While browsing MATLAB Answers today, I stumbled across a discussion about the fastest way to solve small linear systems in...

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Make a function time out in a parfor loop
You say you want to do this in a parfor-loop but is the use of parfor really a hard constraint? I interpret your problem statem...

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Pair programming with Claude to produce computational art in MATLAB
I found some beautiful computational art made by a developer called @yuruyurau who used a language called Processing. Unfortunat...

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Pair programming with Claude to produce computational art in MATLAB
I recently stumbled across @yuruyurau, a computational artist on X.com, who posts code snippets in a language called...

5 months ago