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Kali
Last activity 2023 年 12 月 21 日

Help

Write a matlab script that will print the odd numbers, 1 through 20, in reverse.

I cannot figure out how to do this correctly, please help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

David
Last activity 2023 年 11 月 23 日

A really nice overview of LLMs by Andrej Karpathy

Emma Farnan
Last activity 2023 年 11 月 28 日

Add alpha capability to "Line" class

I think it would be a really great feature to be able to add an Alpha property to the basic "Line" class in MATLAB plots. I know that I have previously had to resort to using Patch to be able to plot semitransparent lines, but there are also so many other functions that rely on the "Line" class.

For example, if you want to make a scatter plot from a table with things specified into groups, you can use ScatterHistogram or gscatter but since gscatter uses the Line class, you can't adjust the marker transparency. So if you don't want the histograms, you are stuck with manually separating it and using scatter with hold on.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2046770-explaining-a-matlab-code/?s_tid=ans_lp_feed_leaf

John D'Errico
Last activity 2023 年 12 月 15 日

Should the AI apply to all questions posted on Answers?

I saw this post on Answers.

I was impressed at the capability of the AI, as I have been at other times when I posed a question to it, at least some of the time. So much so that I wondered...

What if the AI were automatically applied to EVERY question on Answers? Would that be a good or bad thing? For example, suppose the AI automatically offers an answer to every question as soon as it gets posted? Of course, users would still be allowed to post their own, possibly better answers. But would it tend to disincentivise individuals from ansering questions?

Perhaps as bad, would it push Answers into the mode of a homework solving forum? Since if every homework question gets a possibly pretty good automatic AI generated solution, then every student will just post all HW questions, and the forum would quickly become overwhelmed.

I suppose one idea could be to set up the AI to post an answer to all un-answered questions that are at least one month old. Then students would not gain by posting their homework.

Mishal Mohanlal
Last activity 2023 年 11 月 17 日

Compression only spring mass system

Hi Guys

Posting this based on a thought I had, so I don't really ahve any code however I would like to know if the thought process is correct and/or relatively accurate.

Consider a simple spring mass system which only allows compression on the spring however when there is tension the mass should move without the effect of the spring distrupting it, thus the mass is just thrown vertically upwards.

The idea which I came up with for such a system is to have two sets of dfferential equations, one which represents the spring system and another which presents a mass in motion without the effects of the spring.

Please refer to the below basic outline of the code which I am proposing. I believe that this may produce relatively decent results. The code essentially checks if there is tension in the system if there is it then takes the last values from the spring mass differential equation and uses it as initial conditions for the differential equation with the mass moving wothout the effects of the spring, this process works in reverse also. The error which would exist is that the initial conditions applied to the system would include effects of the spring. Would there be a better way to code such behaviour?

function xp = statespace(t,x,f,c,k,m)
    if (k*x(1)) positive #implying tension
      **Use last time step as initial conditions**
      **differential equation of a mass moving""
    end
    if x(1) negative #implying that the mass in now moving down therefore compression in spring
      **Use last time step as initial conditions**
      **differential equation for a spring mass system**
    end
end

Martin Ryba
Last activity 2023 年 12 月 12 日

AWGN SNR calibration for band limited signals

Seeing a colleague make this mistake (one I've had to fix multiple times in other's work too) makes me want to ask the community: would you like the awgn() function/blocks to give the option for creating a SNR at the bandwidth of the signal? Your typical flow is something like this:

Create a signal, usually at some nominal upsampling factor (e.g., 4) such that it's now nicely over sampled, especially if you're using a RRC or similar pulse shaping filter.
Potentially add a frequency offset (which might make the sample frequency even higher)
Add AWGN channel model for a desired SNR
Put this into your detector/receiver model

The problem is, when someone says, "I'm detecting XYZ at foo SNR," it should not magically improve as a function of the oversample. The problem isn't that awgn() generates white noise, that's what it's supposed to do and the typical receiver has noise across the entire band. The problem is that SNR is most properly defined as the signal power over the noise power spectral density times the signal's noise equivalent bandwidth. Now I looked and there's no handy function for computing NEBW for an input signal (there's just a function for assessing analysis windows). In practice it can get a bit tricky. The occupied bandwidth or HPBW are often close enough to the NEBW, we're usually not haggling over hundredths of a dB. So, in my not so humble opinion, the "measured" flag for awgn() should give an option for bandwidth matching or at least document the behavior better in the help page. All too often I'm seeing 3-6 (or worse) dB errors because people aren't taking the signal's bandwidth into account.

Hans Scharler
Last activity 2023 年 11 月 9 日

🚀 The MATLAB AI Chat Playground Has Launched

The MATLAB AI Chat Playground is open to everyone!

Check it out here on the community: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/playground

I just published a blog post announcing the release.

David
Last activity 2023 年 10 月 31 日

See what's going on at MATLAB Central without leaving MATLAB 🙂

Here's a MATLAB class I wrote that leverages the MATLAB Central Interface for MATLAB toolbox, which in turn uses the publicy available Community API. Using this class, I've created a few Favorites that show me what's going on in MATLAB Central - without having to leave MATLAB 🙂

The class has a few convenient queries:

Results for the last 7 days
Results for the last 30 days
Results for the current month
Results for today

And supporting a bunch of different content scopes:

All MATLAB Central
MATLAB Answers
Blogs
Cody
Contests
File Exchange
Exclude Answers content

The results are displayed in the command window (which worked best for me) and link to each post. Here's what that looks like for this command

>> CommunityFeed.thisMonth("app designer", CommunityFeed.Scope.ExcludeAnswers)

Let me know if you find this class useful and feel free to suggest changes.

Ben Pasquariello
Last activity 2023 年 10 月 25 日

New Cheat Sheet for Organizing and Accessing Data in MATLAB

New Cheat Sheet Alert!

Level up your data organization and access skills in MATLAB with our latest cheat sheet! Download the full cheat sheet on MATLAB GitHub for Students here.

Julian
Last activity 2024 年 2 月 5 日

Naming x-values in bar(x,y)

I know the latest version of MATLAB R2023b has this feature already, put it should be added to R2023a as well because of its simplicity and convenience.

Basically, I want to make a bar graph that lets me name each column in a basic bar graph:

y=[100 99 100 200 200 300 500 800 1000];

x=["0-4" "5-17" "18-29" "30-39" "40-49" "50-64" "65-74" "75-84" "85+"];

bar(x,y)

However, in R2023a, this isn't a feature. I think it should be added because it helps to present data and ideas more clearly and professionally, which is the purpose of a graph to begin with.

Matt J
Last activity 2024 年 3 月 1 日

Implicit expansion for CAT()

Would it be a good thing to have implicit expansion enabled for cat(), horzcat(), vertcat()? There are often situations where I would like to be able to do things like this:

 x=[10;20;30;40];
 y=[11;12;13;14];
 z=cat(3, 0,1,2);
 
 C=[x,y,z]
 

with the result,

Chen Lin
Last activity 2023 年 11 月 3 日

AI + Community: How Can We Embrace Generative AI to Enhance Community Management

In the past year, we've witnessed an exponential growth of ChatGPT and other Generative AI tools. AI has quickly become a transformative force across industries, from tech giants to small startups, and even community sites like ours. For instance, Stack Overflow announced its plan to leverage AI tools to draft a question or tag content; Quora built a ChatGPT bot to answer questions; and GitHub is piloting the AI tool for personalized content.

This trend in the community landscape makes me wonder what MATLAB Central community, especially in MATLAB Answers, can do to integrate AI and enhance the community.

Share with us your ideas in the comment session. Ideally one comment per idea, so that others can vote on a secific idea or have deeper discussions about it.

Chen Lin
Last activity 2023 年 10 月 11 日

Do you like the channels we have in Discussions area?

We launched the Discussions area with 6 channels, based on the existing types of content we see today in the MATLAB Central community.

I'm curious which channels you are most interested in participating, or which channels are missing.

Tell us your thoughts here!

channels

Ben Pasquariello
Last activity 2024 年 1 月 19 日

MATLAB GitHub for Students!

Calling all students! New to MATLAB or need helpful resources? Check out our MATLAB GitHub for Students repository! Find MATLAB examples, videos, cheat sheets, and more!

Visit the repository here: MATLAB GitHub for Students

Mike Croucher
Last activity 2023 年 10 月 14 日

Want the smallest 10 elements of a large vector?

Imagine x is a large vector and you want the smallest 10 elements. How might you do it?

Details at Partial sorting in MATLAB » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)

Mayla
Last activity 2023 年 9 月 19 日

Problem 1899. Convert a Cell Array into an Array

Thats the task:

Given a square cell array:

x = {'01', '56'; '234', '789'};

return a single character array:

y = '0123456789'

I wrote a code that passes Test 1 and 2 and one that passes Test 3 but I'm searching a condition so that the code for Test 3 runs when the cell array only contains letters and the one for Test 1 and 2 in every other case. Can somebody help me?

This is my code:

 y = []
[a,b]=size(x)
%%TEST 3
delimiter=zeros(1,a)
delimiter(end)=1
delimiter=repmat(delimiter,1,b)
delimiter(end)=''
delimiter=string(delimiter)
y=[]
for i=1:a*b
      y = string([y x(i)])
end
y=join(y,delimiter)
y=erase(y,'0')
y=regexprep(y,'1',' ')
%%TEST 1+2
for i=1:a*b
      y = string([y x(i)])
      y=join(y)
  end
  y=erase(y,' ' )

Mayla
Last activity 2023 年 9 月 13 日

Problem 2022. Find a Pythagorean triple

That's the question: Given four different positive numbers, a, b, c and d, provided in increasing order: a < b < c < d, find if any three of them comprise sides of a right-angled triangle. Return true if they do, otherwise return false .

I wrote this code but it doesn't pass test 7. I don't really understand why it isn't working. Can somebody help me?

function flag = isTherePythagoreanTriple(a, b, c, d)
a2=a^2
b2=b^2
c2=c^2
d2=d^2
format shortG
  if a2+b2==c2
      flag=true
  else if a2+b2==d2
          flag=true      
  else if a2+c2==d2
           flag=true
  else if c2+b2==d2
           flag=true
  else flag=false
  end
  end
  end
  end
end

Mayla
Last activity 2023 年 10 月 24 日

Problem 44952. Find MPG of Lightest Cars

That's the question:

The file cars.mat contains a table named cars with variables Model, MPG, Horsepower, Weight, and Acceleration for several classic cars.

Load the MAT-file. Given an integer N, calculate the output variable mpg.

Output mpg should contain the MPG of the top N lightest cars (by Weight) in a column vector.

I wrote this code and the resulting column vector has the right values but it doesn't pass the tests. What's wrong?

function mpg = sort_cars(N)
load cars.mat
sorted=sortrows(cars,4)
mpg = sorted(1:N,2)
end

Joel Hottinger
Last activity 2023 年 6 月 16 日

No longer able to rate difficulty of qustions on Cody

I recently have found that I am no longer able to give my difficulty rating for questions on Cody after sucessfully completing a question. This is obviously not a big deal, I was just wondering if this was an issue on my end or if there was some change that I was not aware of.

The option to rate does not pop up after solving a problem, and the rating in general does not even show up anymore when answering questions (though it is visible from problem groups).

cody