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...

8 days ago

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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...

15 days ago

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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...

23 days ago

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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...

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...

2 months ago

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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...

3 months ago

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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...

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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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...

4 months ago

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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...

6 months ago

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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...

6 months ago

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Solving practical problems on quantum computers and quantum-inspired hardware with Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO)
In my first article on quantum computing I took a look at gate based quantum computing using the MATLAB Support Package for...

7 months ago

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Parallel computing in MATLAB: Have you tried ThreadPools yet?
Give ThreadPool a tryIf you have some parallel MATLAB code and want to try something that may make it go faster then I...

7 months ago

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We’ve been listening: MATLAB R2025a Prerelease update 5 now available
The first public version of the R2025a Prerelease went live in January and today we released update 5. This update to the...

7 months ago

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Advance Optimization Software: Fully Funded PhD with HiGHS and MathWorks at University of Edinburgh
Last year I discussed the collaboration between the open source optimization library, HiGHS and MathWorks. This included...

8 months ago

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MathWorks Call for Research Proposals Spring 2025
Do you conduct research on 'Engineered Systems'?If you are in the business of building or conducting research on 'Engineered...

8 months ago

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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...

9 months ago

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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...

9 months ago

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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...

9 months ago

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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...

10 months ago

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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...

11 months ago

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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...

11 months ago

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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...

11 months ago

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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...

12 months ago

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Creating seamless loop animations in MATLAB
This is a guest post by Vasileios Bellos that he originally wrote in the MathWorks Central Discussions channel. Vasileios is...

1 year ago

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4 ways of using MATLAB with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Ollama
Everyone's talking about Large Language Models (LLMs) and a huge number of you are using them too. Here are 4 ways to make...

1 year ago

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MATLAB now has over 1,000 functions that Just Work on NVIDIA GPUs
GPU support in MATLAB started in R2010bBack in R2010b, the first GPU enabled functions were made available in MATLAB via...

1 year ago