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...

12 days ago | 0

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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...

2 months ago | 0

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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...

3 months ago | 0

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Vacuous Truth
all(logical.empty) Discuss!

3 months ago | 0

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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, ...

5 months ago | 3

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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...

5 months ago | 5

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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...

5 months ago | 4

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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...

5 months ago | 6

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Why should you share code?
In a discussion on LInkedin about my recent blog post, Do these 3 things to increase the reach of your open source MATLAB toolbo...

6 months ago | 6

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Markdown support in MATLAB R2025a is excellent
In case you missed it in my overview of the MATLAB R2025a release, Markdown support has been greatly improved. This picture say...

6 months ago | 7

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PIVlab surpasses 100K all-time File Exchange downloads
During the past twelve months, PIVlab, a MATLAB Community Toolbox for particle interference velocimetry (a technique for fluid f...

8 months ago | 8

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If you have parallel MATLAB code, try ThreadPool
Me: If you have parallel code and you apply this trick that only requires changing one line then it might go faster. Reddit use...

9 months ago | 6

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R2025a Prerelease Update 5 discussion
There has been a lot of discussion here about the R2025a Prerelease that has really helped us get it ready for the prime time. T...

9 months ago | 8

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What are the first steps to developing a new toolbox?
Imagine you are developing a new toolbox for MATLAB. You have a folder full of a few .m files defining a bunch of functions and ...

10 months ago | 5

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Join MathWorks and AWS in this hands on Quantum Computing Workshop: March 26 and 27 2025
Learn the basic of quantum computing, how to simulate quantum circuits on MATLAB and how to run them on real quantum computers u...

10 months ago | 4

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All you need is....
tiledlayout(4,1); % Plot "L" (y = 1/(x+1), for x > -1) x = linspace(-0.9, 2, 100); % Avoid x = -1 (undefined) y =1 ./ (x+1)...

10 months ago | 6

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MATLAB Without Borders: Connecting your projects with Python and other Open Source Tools.
On 27th February María Elena Gavilán Alfonso and I will be giving an online seminar that has been a while in the making. We'll b...

10 months ago | 10

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On love and research software: Learning about research code sharing for Valentine's day
For Valentine's day this year I tried to do something a little more than just the usual 'Here's some MATLAB code that draws a pi...

11 months ago | 2

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Run DeepSeek models on your own machine and interact with them using MATLAB
You've probably heard about the DeepSeek AI models by now. Did you know you can run them on your own machine (assuming its power...

11 months ago | 4

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Faster linear algebra for Apple Silicon users in the R2025a pre-release (available now!)
So you've downloaded the R2025a pre-release, tried Dark mode and are wondering what else is new. A lot! A lot is new! One thi...

11 months ago | 6

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Give Dark Mode a try in the R2025a pre-release
Hi everyone The R2025a pre-release is now available to licensed users. I highly encourage you to download, give it a try and gi...

12 months ago | 10

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Deep learning (and traditional Machine Learning) online training updates
The MATLAB Online Training Suite has been updated in the areas of Deep Learning and traditional Machine Learning! These are grea...

1 year ago | 5

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MATLAB en Español
Many of my best friends at MathWorks speak Spanish as their first language and we have a large community of Spanish-speaking use...

1 year ago | 6

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MATLAB and Numpy
I've always used MATLAB with other languages. In the early days, C and C++ via mex files were the most common ways I spliced two...

1 year ago | 4

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An unintentional MATLAB meme
I enjoyed this post on BlueSky yesterday (1) Ben Hayden: "When you are using matlab and you want to get the square root of the...

1 year ago | 9

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MATLAB Expo sessions on Open Source
Next week is MATLAB EXPO week and it will be the first one that I'm presenting at! I'll be giving two presentations, both of whi...

1 year ago | 3

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Who will be at SC24?
Hot off the heels of my High Performance Computing experience in the Czech republic, I've just booked my flights to Atlanta for ...

1 year ago | 2

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A legend is leaving the building: The Steve Eddins interview
One of the privileges of working at MathWorks is that I get to hang out with some really amazing people. Steve Eddins, of ‘Steve...

2 years ago | 5

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R2024a - What are you looking forward to?
The latest release is pretty much upon us. Official annoucements will be coming soon and the eagle-eyed among you will have star...

2 years ago | 9

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Run MATLAB code from Visual Studio Code
Updated release available today! MATLAB extension for Visual Studio Code: Now with code execution » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & S...

2 years ago | 8