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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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...

13 days ago

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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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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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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...

2 months ago

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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...

2 months ago

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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...

2 months ago

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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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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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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 recently stumbled across @yuruyurau, a computational artist on X.com, who posts code snippets in a language called...

3 months ago

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Call MATLAB from Google Colab
Yes, you can but its a bit experimental at the moment. Using MATLAB on Google Colab » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink

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Can I use google colab for running matlab codes
You can get MATLAB on Colab but it's very experimental at the moment. Using MATLAB on Google Colab » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & ...

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Using MATLAB on Google Colab
Google recently announced that Colab Terminal is Now Free For All Users and a few MathWorkers immediately thought to...

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When using "inv()" in a thread-based parallel environment, can multiple threads be applied to a single instance of "inv()"?
The inv function is multithreaded. You don't need to do anything to make use of multithreading here. Here are more details: Wh...

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Do these 3 things to increase the reach of your open source MATLAB toolbox
We all develop code for different reasons. However, once we decide to start sharing it with others, we tend to have one...

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What’s with all the big changes in R2025a?
Bio: Hi, it's Michelle here. You might know me as the woman who falls on her sword when MATLAB isn't meeting your needs...

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Can I get notification when a new version (e.g., 2025a) is released?
You could subscribe to The MATLAB Blog: MATLAB R2025a has been released – What’s new? » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink

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MATLAB R2025a has been released – What’s new?
As the first version following MathWorks' 40th anniversary in 2024, MATLAB R2025a is probably the biggest release I've ever...

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fuzzy logic help videos
Here is something from MathWorks that might help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__0nZuG4sTw

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Can the MATLAB Package Manager be used to distribute packages on GitHub or any cloud repository?
Currently (As of R2024b) only local folders are supported. Can you tell us more about your requirements though?

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Is it possible to use keyHash without the random seed per MATLAB session?
I'm afraid not, can you tell us more about your workflow? When you look across various other languages, no one seems to guarant...

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