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## Archive of Mathematica weekly newsletters

January 31, 2018 compiled on — Wednesday January 31, 2018 at 12:38 AM [public]

### 1 Tuesday, January 16, 2018

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Top new questions this week:
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[How can I access NASA images and APIs?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163638/how-can-i-access-nasa-images-and-apis

I &heartsuit; NASA. You &heartsuit; NASA. We all &heartsuit; NASA.

So how can I use the images and things they expose in their APIs in Mathematica?

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[Access last variable in a pure function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163469/access-last-variable-in-a-pure-function

# is the first argument of a pure function, #n the nth, ## are all
variables and ##n all beginning with the nth variable.

Now, I would like to access the last argument. In a list, this would be ...

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[Ordered RandomSample] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163498/ordered-randomsample

This feels like a basic question yet I failed to find an answer.

(*arbitrary list of unique elements, does not need to be sorted*)
list = CharacterRange["a", "h"];
n = 5;

RandomSample[ list, n]

...

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[Possible bug in Refresh[x, None] on the very first x = val] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163559/possible-bug-in-refreshx-none-on-the-very-first-x-val

Bug introduced in 8 or earlier and persisting through 11.2.0

>From Refresh docs:

Refresh[expr,None] specifies that the value of expr
should never automatically be refreshed.

ClearAll[z]
...

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[How to launch a separate Java VM on each sub-Kernel?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163387/how-to-launch-a-separate-java-vm-on-each-sub-kernel

I have some code that process very large flat files in to separate HSQL(Standalone) databases using ParallelSubmit and JDBC for each file using the strategy in this post (19542). Lately I keep ...

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[Three differential equations] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163566/three-differential-equations

I have the next figure with inflow and outflow rates:

And I need to calculate the time for which the pollution will be 50% from the initial value. Assuming that all lakes have the same pollution ...

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[How can I create an enumeration variable by groups?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163764/how-can-i-create-an-enumeration-variable-by-groups

I copied the title and concept for this question from here. I have

data = {{"ID", "Value"}, {1, 48}, {1, 45}, {1, 52}, {1, 43}, {1,
41}, {2, 50}, {2, 42}, {2, 51}, {2, 52}, {bb, 52}, {bb, 54},  ...

================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================

[Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica

I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad.

Is ...

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[Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18/where-can-i-find-examples-of-good-mathematica-programming-practice

I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ...

================================== Can you answer these? ==================================

[Why BoundingRegion does not work well?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163756/why-boundingregion-does-not-work-well

Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 11.2.0

I have a set of data points describing an ellipse in the plane. I want to obtain the best ellipse that fits them.

As a first attempt, I use ...

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[Are integrals with coalescing saddles available in the core Mathematica or in standard packages?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163581/are-integrals-with-coalescing-saddles-available-in-the-core-mathematica-or-in-st

I was having a look at the DLMF chapter on integrals with coalescing saddles, and there are a few things that I’d like to try out with the functions it describes, including e.g. the Pearcey integral, ...

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[Can FindFit be used with units?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163391/can-findfit-be-used-with-units

I am trying to use the units capabilities of Mathematica throughout a course that I am teaching, but am finding that it isn’t uniformly implemented across many functions. In particular, I would love ...

- asked by Kevin Ausman (1 vote)

### 2 Tuesday, January 9, 2018

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Top new questions this week:
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[Why is Unevaluated[#]& different from Unevaluated?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163291/why-is-unevaluated-different-from-unevaluated

{a, b, c} = {1, 2, 3};
Unevaluated /@ Unevaluated@{a, b, c}
(* {Unevaluated[a], Unevaluated[b], Unevaluated[c]} *)
Unevaluated[#]&amp; /@ Unevaluated@{a, b, c}
(* {Unevaluated[1], Unevaluated[2],  ...

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[Building a GitBook with Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163193/building-a-gitbook-with-mathematica

GitBook is a fun little website that will take Markdown source material and build a little book out of it.

How can I use Mathematica to build a GitBook with a minimum of effort?

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[How to create a vertical bullet gauge?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163201/how-to-create-a-vertical-bullet-gauge

Originally posted in MathematicaMeta SE, titled ”I can’t understand why Mathematica has an excellent (perhaps the best!) BulletGauge command (with multiple options)”, as a reflexion about the ...

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[Specialized form of Outer[f, list, list] for symmetric f] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163240/specialized-form-of-outerf-list-list-for-symmetric-f

Consider a function f that is symmetric with regard to its two arguments i.e. f[x,y] == f[y,x]. Using Outer one can for instance build a correspondence matrix that computes some distance measure f ...

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[How to convert a string having nested parentheses into an expression?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163184/how-to-convert-a-string-having-nested-parentheses-into-an-expression

I am a Wolfram Language/Mathematica beginner and trying to convert STEP ISO10303 commands into geometrical regions. A simple command looks like

(vector(a,(b,c)),line(d,(e,f))

I tried with String ...

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[Is there any way to speed up this code that’s Maximizing a function got from numerical integration?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163204/is-there-any-way-to-speed-up-this-code-thats-maximizing-a-function-got-from-num

I have this code below, which is calculating the Binding energy of an electron in a Quantum Well Wire with a hydrogenic impurity in it. Well you don’t have to care much about what kind of calculation ...

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[Joining all the keys of a list of rules that point to matching values] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163068/joining-all-the-keys-of-a-list-of-rules-that-point-to-matching-values

Suppose I have a list of rules whose keys are not of identical structure (in my case, the keys are either lists of at least one symbol or symbols alone):

rules = {{a} -&gt; 1, {b, c} -&gt; 1, d -&gt;  ...

================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================

[How to calculate scalar curvature Ricci tensor and Christoffel symbols in Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/8895/how-to-calculate-scalar-curvature-ricci-tensor-and-christoffel-symbols-in-mathem

I am seeking a convenient and effective way to calculate such geometric quantities. I’ve used packages like TensoriaCalc, but they don’t work at all time. Sometimes, I run into the following error: ...

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[xkcd-style Plots] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-style-plots

I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn’t manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don’t have enough command over PlotLegends to have these ...

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[Is ClearAttributes built-in functon work in current cell only?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163223/is-clearattributes-built-in-functon-work-in-current-cell-only

I have a question. Is ClearAttributes the built-in functon work in current cell only? This is my code:

In first cell:

Set[a, 6]

In second cell:

ClearAttributes[Set, HoldFirst]
Attributes[Set]
...

- asked by SIJA (1 vote)

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[How to convert Piecewise into KroneckerDelta form by FullSimplify?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163274/how-to-convert-piecewise-into-kroneckerdelta-form-by-fullsimplify

The question comes from the last example of this topic in the Wolfram documentation.

SeriesCoefficient[E^x^2, {x, 0, n}]

However, my (v11.1) output is

$\begin{cases} \frac1{{\sf ... - asked by ooo (1 vote) —————————- [Code behind these Video Playback demos?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/163008/code-behind-these-video-playback-demos There are only two known examples of video playback (from a file) within a (non-cloud) notebook: Visualizations in Graph Theory with the Wolfram Language (at time 3:32) Mathematica and CUDA, ... - asked by user5601 (3 votes) ### 3 Tuesday, January 2, 2018 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [What’s the default colormap (or color scheme) used in mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162883/whats-the-default-colormap-or-color-scheme-used-in-mathematica For example, the colors used on this page: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourStyle.html or here: ... - asked by Alex (8 votes), answered by kglr (7 votes) —————————- [ with one boundary at infinity] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162691/frac-partial2-u-partial-x2-frac-partial-2-u-partial Is there a trick to make Mathematica solve with one boundary condition at ? Boundary ... - asked by Nasser (8 votes), answered by ZufolgeWeierstrass (13 votes) —————————- [How to make simple closed curve that can be smoothly morphed using locators] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162711/how-to-make-simple-closed-curve-that-can-be-smoothly-morphed-using-locators Given a simple closed curve in 2D with some locators on it, I would like to have be able to stretch and squish parts of the curve by moving the locators to morph the curve into another simple closed ... - asked by Michael McCain (8 votes), answered by halirutan (12 votes) —————————- [Approximation with radial basis functions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162768/approximation-with-radial-basis-functions I want to approximate some functions with basisfunctions, which can be easy Fourier-transformed. So I got the idea to approximate my function with Gaussian normal-distribution curves. This led me to ... - asked by pcalc (7 votes), answered by Anton Antonov (7 votes) —————————- [How to Discretize the Following Region Using Reasonable Bounds?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162674/how-to-discretize-the-following-region-using-reasonable-bounds I want to accurately discretize the implicit equation . To get the whole discretized shape, I’m forced to use oversized bounds x,-70,80 and y,-70,80 curve = ... - asked by Arbuja (7 votes), answered by Carl Woll (5 votes) —————————- [Replacement for GraphJoin] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162900/replacement-for-graphjoin According to MathWorld × GraphJoin, Mathematica could compute the join of two graphs with the GraphJoin command, part of Combinatorica. This command no longer works as of v10, and I cannot find a ... - asked by Bryan Clair (5 votes), answered by kglr (6 votes) —————————- [How can I make a DensityPlot3D over a triangle?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162852/how-can-i-make-a-densityplot3d-over-a-triangle I know that I can plot over 3D-regions like balls via DensityPlot3D[(x^2 + y^2 + z^2)^2, {x, y, z} Ball[{0, 0, 0}, 1]] But, not surprisingly, this breaks down for 2D-regions like triangles. How ... - asked by java4ever (5 votes), answered by rcollyer (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How do I clear all user defined symbols?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/850/how-do-i-clear-all-user-defined-symbols Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -&gt; Quit kernel and firing a new one up? - asked by niklasfi (66 votes), answered by Artes (63 votes) —————————- [How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/34073/how-to-calculate-contour-integrals-with-mathematica How to calculate the integral of over the unit circle counterclockwise for each branch of the integrand? - asked by user64494 (31 votes), answered by Artes (54 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Apply a classifier to a column in excel and export side by side result?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162901/apply-a-classifier-to-a-column-in-excel-and-export-side-by-side-result I’m relatively new to using Mathematica, and I was able to create a Classifier from a training set of about 3,000 pairs of non-numerical text strings. I have my test set of about 20,000 records in an ... - asked by M0RPH0RX (2 votes) —————————- [Solving a cumulative distribution from a first order condition] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162825/solving-a-cumulative-distribution-from-a-first-order-condition I could use some guidance in using Mathematica’s NDSolve. I’m attempting to numerically uncover a cumulative distribution function (CDF), , with density from a first order condition, ... - asked by J.R. (1 vote) —————————- [Fourier — Examples — Applications — Frequency Identification: high resolution: what trick is this?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162661/fourier-examples-applications-frequency-identification-high-resolution-w My question is regarding one of the examples in the Documentation Center for the built-in symbol Fourier: Fourier — Examples — Applications — Frequency Identification Fourier is used to find the ... - asked by Jack (1 vote) ### 4 Tuesday, December 26, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How fast is my fidget spinner spinning? A sound experiment!] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162303/how-fast-is-my-fidget-spinner-spinning-a-sound-experiment I would like to measure how fast my 6-bladed fidget spinner spins. To do so, after giving it a hard spin, I gently touch the spinner with a wooden stirring stick to create a buzzing sound which ... - asked by Miladiouss (17 votes), answered by Miladiouss (10 votes) —————————- [Sub-packages and auto-completion] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162386/sub-packages-and-auto-completion Cross-posted on Wolfram Community I have a Mathematica application that consists of two sub-packages, corresponding to the contexts foo‘ (foo.m) and foo‘b‘ (b.m). Some of the definitions in foo.m ... - asked by Szabolcs (11 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (2 votes) —————————- [Why does Cases not find a match to the pattern using _. when n is a number other than 1?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162559/why-does-cases-not-find-a-match-to-the-pattern-using-n-when-n-is-a-number-oth I am not good in patterns in Mathematica, and so can’t figure what I am doing wrong. This example works, when the exponent is 1 ClearAll[y,x,n] Cases[{( y[x]/x)^1}, (y[x]/x )^(n_.) :&gt; n] But ... - asked by Nasser (10 votes), answered by m_goldberg (9 votes) —————————- [How to make an Epilog moveable with drag and drop] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162572/how-to-make-an-epilog-moveable-with-drag-and-drop I would like to make an Epilog moveable. For example, the following code generates a Manipulate with a framed pane containing some notes. I would like the user to be able to move those notes anywhere ... - asked by Michael McCain (8 votes), answered by Mike Honeychurch (9 votes) —————————- [Map every second element of a list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162334/map-every-second-element-of-a-list I’ve loaded a CSV: Colors = Import[ "d:\\bitbucket\\diversity\\data\\nlcd\\nlcd-colors.csv", "CSV"] {{0., " 0.00000000000 0.00000000000 0.00000000000"}, {11., " 0.27843137255 0.41960784314 ... - asked by pnz (8 votes), answered by Kuba (13 votes) —————————- [Table of precedence values for all System‘ symbols] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162474/table-of-precedence-values-for-all-system-symbols Has anyone created a table listing the precedences for all symbols? Also, it would be nice if there were a function that for a given precedence value or interval, returned all the symbols with that ... - asked by Carl Woll (7 votes), answered by Carl Woll (8 votes) —————————- [How to make a custom DynamicImage which support mouse wheel and show pixel value?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162311/how-to-make-a-custom-dynamicimage-which-support-mouse-wheel-and-show-pixel-value The built-in DynamicImage just click the plus sign or minus sign to rescale the image. I have to say click is a not very good operation. Could we make the custom DynamicImage which support the mouse ... - asked by yode (7 votes), answered by M.R. (3 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [xkcd-style Plots] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-style-plots I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn’t manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don’t have enough command over PlotLegends to have these ... - asked by Amatya (553 votes), answered by Simon Woods (409 votes) —————————- [Why round to even integers?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/2116/why-round-to-even-integers According to the Mathematica help: Round rounds numbers of the form x.5 toward the nearest even integer. For example: Round[{0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5}] gives {0, 2, 2, 4, 4} What’s the ... - asked by wxffles (69 votes), answered by Per Alexandersson (43 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How can I check that a graph is edge weighted, fast?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162391/how-can-i-check-that-a-graph-is-edge-weighted-fast I need to check if a graph is edge-weighted while maintaining good performance. This should be an easy task, but it is not. It is a good example of why it is so terribly frustrating to work with ... - asked by Szabolcs (5 votes) —————————- [contour of inside of a volume] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162306/contour-of-inside-of-a-volume I have the following volume: RegionPlot3D[-j^2*y^2 + j*l &lt; 11, {l, 0, 10}, {j, 0, 10}, {y, 0, 1}] However, I am not able to obtain a 2D graph from it (contour), which shows the region inside the ... - asked by Darrin Cope (1 vote) —————————- [Finsler or Lagrange geometry package?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/162489/finsler-or-lagrange-geometry-package I was wondering if there exist any packages or examples of work on Finsler-Lagrange geometry. I need it to do symbolic calculations, as for example calculations of non-linear connection coefficients, ... - asked by Athis Startis (1 vote) ### 5 Tuesday, December 12, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Why does Mathematica results differ from C++ results within machine precision?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161716/why-does-mathematica-results-differ-from-c-results-within-machine-precision I am trying to wrap my head around floating-point precision. Performing the following numeric operation: 275./6.*1.03692775514337 in Mathematica and C++ and taking the difference of the two results ... - asked by Knowledge (22 votes), answered by ilian (44 votes) —————————- [Bug with Block & Lookup: Scope Variable Leak] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161616/bug-with-block-lookup-scope-variable-leak After debugging a large chunk of code, I could identify this MWE. ClearAll@test test[var_String]:= Block[{association}, association = &lt;|"x"-&gt; &lt;|"key01"-&gt; "ok"|&gt;|&gt;[var]; ... - asked by Murta (22 votes), answered by Albert Retey (15 votes) —————————- [Why is ”k” in the output of Sum[Log[k]/k^k, {k,1,Infinity}]?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161704/why-is-k-in-the-output-of-sumlogk-kk-k-1-infinity NSum[Log[k]/k^k, {k,1,Infinity}, WorkingPrecision-&gt;50] (* 0.219947267975228664843531307905860703797097130 *) But Sum[Log[k]/k^k, {k,1,Infinity}] (* -(PolyLog^(1,0))[0,1/k] *) What does "k" in ... - asked by Vaclav Kotesovec (13 votes) —————————- [Simulating molecular dynamics efficiently] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161471/simulating-molecular-dynamics-efficiently The following website offers a very nice molecular dynamics simulation: http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/md/. It is pretty neat and quite a few physical phenomena can be described from that small ... - asked by anderstood (13 votes), answered by Henrik Schumacher (16 votes) —————————- [Why is listable not an attribute of the Set function?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161428/why-is-listable-not-an-attribute-of-the-set-function The following is a list of attributes for the Set function: Attributes[Set] HoldFirst, Protected, SequenceHold Why is Listable not included? - asked by S.V (13 votes), answered by Kuba (16 votes) —————————- [How to improve quality of this Plot3D] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161771/how-to-improve-quality-of-this-plot3d I tried driving up PlotPoints and MaxRecursion but the intersections look weird, is there some other trick I can do? plot = Plot3D @@ {Abs[Sqrt[x] + Sqrt[y]] /. {x -&gt; Sin[2 x], y -&gt; Cos[2 ... - asked by Yaroslav Bulatov (10 votes), answered by Nasser (11 votes) —————————- [How can I tell Mathematica to interpret 0xffff as a hexadecimal number?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161646/how-can-i-tell-mathematica-to-interpret-0xffff-as-a-hexadecimal-number I am stuck. I would like Mathematica simply accept 0x as a prefix Operator for Hexadecimal Numbers. I know that 0x is interpreted as 0*x, so maybe this is just not possible. I am a programmer and am ... - asked by Mark (9 votes), answered by Carl Woll (16 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Image processing: Floor plan - detecting rooms’ borders (area) and room names’ texts] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/19546/image-processing-floor-plan-detecting-rooms-borders-area-and-room-names-t Here is a simple building floor plan. I would like to derive the rooms as (rectangular) components and the names of the rooms. This is very common representation of building floor plans. The ... - asked by s.s.o (52 votes), answered by nikie (52 votes) —————————- [How to create effect like Van Gogh’s stroke brush?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/39003/how-to-create-effect-like-van-goghs-stroke-brush I need to apply Van Gogh’s stroke brush effect to a random image Take the following image as an example: Thank you so much if you could help! - asked by user10495 (30 votes), answered by Simon Woods (42 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to export graphics to SVG in script executed through cron?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161756/how-to-export-graphics-to-svg-in-script-executed-through-cron I have a Wolfram script that generates plots, and exports them by evaluating expressions of the form Export[”/path/to/some.svg”, myPlot]; The script works as intended when I run it from the [Unix] ... - asked by kjo (3 votes) —————————- [Is it possible to prevent LUDecompositon from pivoting?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161552/is-it-possible-to-prevent-ludecompositon-from-pivoting By construction LUDecomposition performs LU-decomposition with pivoting, i.e. with row permutations (otherwise the decomposition may not exist). Is it possible to tell Mathematica not to use pivoting ... - asked by faleichik (1 vote) —————————- [How Many of R’s Functionalities Are Available From Inside Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161664/how-many-of-rs-functionalities-are-available-from-inside-mathematica When R is linked to Mathematica, how many of its functionalities are available from inside of Mathematica? - asked by Glenford Mc Ewen (2 votes) ### 6 Tuesday, December 5, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Sharing small code snippets] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161269/sharing-small-code-snippets As part of my never-ending goal of getting Mathematica code to be as easily shared as python packages I was recently thinking about how to make code easy to share. So what’s are some good ways to ... - asked by b3m2a1 (19 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (13 votes) —————————- [InverseTotient[ ]?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160949/inversetotient Maple has a function InverseTotient( c ), which returns all those natural numbers whose Euler totient function . Is there an equivalent inverse of EulerPhi[ ] in Mathematica? If ... - asked by Joseph O’Rourke (11 votes), answered by Michael E2 (18 votes) —————————- [What are the counterparts in Wolfram to left and right division of a matrix in other programming language, e.g. Julia and MATLAB?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161301/what-are-the-counterparts-in-wolfram-to-left-and-right-division-of-a-matrix-in-o Sometimes, to find the inverse of a matrix is a labor-consuming task or even ”disgusting”, especially when the matrix is ”ill”. It is said, e.g. in Julia, that the left/right division operation is ... - asked by Alexander Zeng (10 votes), answered by C. E. (12 votes) —————————- [How to perform Loop subdivision on a triangle mesh with Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161331/how-to-perform-loop-subdivision-on-a-triangle-mesh-with-mathematica Every now and then, the question pops up how a given geometric mesh (e.g. a MeshRegion) can be refined to produce a i.) finer and ii.) smoother mesh. For example, the following triangle mesh from the ... - asked by Henrik Schumacher (9 votes), answered by Henrik Schumacher (11 votes) —————————- [How to speed up ‘RotationMatrix‘?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161230/how-to-speed-up-rotationmatrix I frequently run into the situation that I have to apply RotationMatrix to a huge bunch of 3D vectors and angles for numerical computations. On the one hand, the syntax of RotationMatrix forces me to ... - asked by Henrik Schumacher (9 votes), answered by Henrik Schumacher (15 votes) —————————- [How to create (Header + Main area + Settings pane) notebook layout] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161203/how-to-create-header-main-area-settings-pane-notebook-layout cross-posted in community.wolfram.com The goal is something like in the picture below. Basic? I dare you to try to implement it in a manageable, scalable and flexible way. Requirements: The ... - asked by Kuba (7 votes), answered by Mike Honeychurch (1 vote) —————————- My understanding of the irective is that it should preserve the sizes of all elements in the expression. But when I try this: m1 = Inset[MaTeX["\\sqrt{\\phantom{a^2}b}", Magnification -&gt; ... - asked by Wynne (7 votes), answered by Nasser (12 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3069/elegant-operations-on-matrix-rows-and-columns Question The Mathematica tutorial has a section ’Basic Matrix Operations’, describing operations like transpose, inverse and determinant. These operations all work on entire matrices. I am missing a ... - asked by sjdh (148 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (50 votes) —————————- [How to create effect like Van Gogh’s stroke brush?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/39003/how-to-create-effect-like-van-goghs-stroke-brush I need to apply Van Gogh’s stroke brush effect to a random image Take the following image as an example: Thank you so much if you could help! - asked by user10495 (30 votes), answered by Simon Woods (42 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Is there any code formatting style reference?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161344/is-there-any-code-formatting-style-reference Is there any code formatting style reference for Wolfram Language similar to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ and https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html? I’m teaching some people ... - asked by qazwsx (4 votes) —————————- [Plot spectrum Fourier Transform] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/161381/plot-spectrum-fourier-transform i want to plot the spectrum of the following function. I hope that anybody is able to help me. I don’t know how to plot the dirac delta function. I tried it this way but it didn´t work so far. Thanks! ... - asked by Luke (1 vote) —————————- [Wrapper for mathematica code with GUI] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160966/wrapper-for-mathematica-code-with-gui I have a code written in Mathematica. What I am trying to do is to write a wrapper (say using Python) that will take user input for the Mathematica code, run the code, and create output. I do not ... - asked by CuriousCoder (2 votes) ### 7 Tuesday, November 28, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [The fastest thing since sliced cubes?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160527/the-fastest-thing-since-sliced-cubes I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole recently, and need a reality check. Suppose you have an arbitrary unit vector, , and you cut up the unit cube into slices orthogonal to with ... - asked by aardvark2012 (18 votes), answered by ybeltukov (7 votes) —————————- [Mathematica does not respect linearity of integral] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160655/mathematica-does-not-respect-linearity-of-integral I have the following issue, trying to evaluate an integral. Mathematica tells me Integrate[x^2 (1 + x^2)^(1/2) + y + z, {x, y, z} Sphere[{0, 0, 0}, 1]] (* 1/2 π (3 Sqrt[2] - Log[2 (2 + Sqrt[2])]) ... - asked by Simone Melchiorre Chiarello (14 votes), answered by Itai Seggev (8 votes) —————————- [How to obtain the cell-adjacency graph of a mesh?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160443/how-to-obtain-the-cell-adjacency-graph-of-a-mesh Given an arbitrary mesh region, how can I efficiently obtain the graph describing the adjacency structure of mesh cells? For example, given the following mesh, SeedRandom[123] pts = RandomReal[1, ... - asked by Szabolcs (10 votes), answered by Henrik Schumacher (11 votes) —————————- [Can a symbol have both OwnValues and DownValues?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160740/can-a-symbol-have-both-ownvalues-and-downvalues Mathematica Version 11.2 desktop / Windows 10 Pro 64-bit I am trying to understand if a symbol can have both OwnValues and DownValues. Is this acceptable or not acceptable? As an experiment, I ... - asked by John (10 votes), answered by m_goldberg (11 votes) —————————- [Differences between DSolve and NDSolve] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160560/differences-between-dsolve-and-ndsolve I have a question about the difference in the solution between DSolve and NDSolve. I want to solve the Friedmann equation of - asked by user85503 (10 votes), answered by Michael E2 (10 votes) —————————- [How to check if a vector is an eigenvector of a matrix using mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160801/how-to-check-if-a-vector-is-an-eigenvector-of-a-matrix-using-mathematica Here is a vector Here is a matrix $$\begin{pmatrix}2&amp; i&amp;0\\-i&amp;1&amp;1\\0 &amp;1&amp;0\end{pmatrix}$$ Is there a simple way to determine ... - asked by Conor Cosnett (8 votes), answered by Michael E2 (5 votes) —————————- [How do I read values from photocells connected to analog pins of Arduino Uno?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160761/how-do-i-read-values-from-photocells-connected-to-analog-pins-of-arduino-uno Generally, I need to connect my Arduino Uno to Mathematica and read 3 analog values from A0, A1, A2 in real-time. As I understand, I have 2 ways of connecting Arduino to Mathematica: First: I have a ... - asked by Aleksandr Berezutskii (8 votes), answered by Suba Thomas (2 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to manipulate 2D plots?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/7142/how-to-manipulate-2d-plots When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ... - asked by István Zachar (124 votes), answered by István Zachar (142 votes) —————————- [How to find the position of elements in a list satisfying criteria] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/180/how-to-find-the-position-of-elements-in-a-list-satisfying-criteria Say I have a list x={2,4,6,8,10} and I want to find out the positions of the elements that are greater than 7. Select[x, #&gt;7&amp;] gives the elements themselves, and Position[x,8] gives the ... - asked by PeterR (47 votes), answered by J. M. (46 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Default options of LinearSolve] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160693/default-options-of-linearsolve I would like to know what is the default options of LinearSolve when using LinearSolve[A,b], where A is a sparse matrix. There are several methods available such as Cholesky and Krysol etc., see here. ... - asked by Wilhelm (1 vote) —————————- [Prevent Semi-Transparent Pixels in Export] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160578/prevent-semi-transparent-pixels-in-export I’ve noticed that when I export plots in Mathematica without a background, a lot of the text ends being made of semi-transparent pixels. For example: myplot = ContourPlot[Cos[x] + Cos[y], x, 0, 4 ... - asked by ereHsaWyhsipS (1 vote) —————————- [Identifying the range of the voice] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160731/identifying-the-range-of-the-voice I’m trying to do an equalization in an audio program called Audition. To have a good voice equalization, I need to have a frequency range of my voice. A minimum value and a maximum frequency value. ... - asked by LCarvalho (2 votes) ### 8 Tuesday, November 21, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Is it possible to construct a fullform trace function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160184/is-it-possible-to-construct-a-fullform-trace-function Is it possible to construct a FullFormTrace function that takes an arbitrary expression and prints a sequence (or returns a list) of the evaluation steps in full form. For instance ... - asked by Bob Ueland (13 votes), answered by Edmund (15 votes) —————————- [Integrate gives wrong result for simple function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160278/integrate-gives-wrong-result-for-simple-function (probably) Bug introduced in 9.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.2 It looks like this. NIntegrate[1/(2 + Sin[x + y]), {x, 0, 2 Pi}, {y, 0, 2 Pi}] 22.7929 Integrate[1/(2 + Sin[x + y]), {x, 0, ... - asked by huotuichang (10 votes), answered by Nasser (8 votes) —————————- [Select the same elements from lists] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160222/select-the-same-elements-from-lists I need a special intersectant operation for List other than Set. There maybe some duplicate elements, also need to count instead of merging as Intersection. For example: ... - asked by GalAster (10 votes), answered by jjc385 (11 votes) —————————- [Building a convenient package distribution system] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160330/building-a-convenient-package-distribution-system The PacletManager is nice, but it’s not really a low-effort system to work with. Installing a package can be made pretty easy, but only if the location from which it is to be installed makes it so. ... - asked by b3m2a1 (8 votes) —————————- [How to merge two lists with different dimensions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160159/how-to-merge-two-lists-with-different-dimensions I have two list, just like a={a1,a2,a3,a4}; b={b1,b2,b3,b4,b5}; I want merge them and save to excel, as they have different dimention, so I want it have the following format. ... - asked by zongxian (7 votes), answered by Carl Woll (12 votes) —————————- [What is the elegant way of applying function to two lists?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160028/what-is-the-elegant-way-of-applying-function-to-two-lists I am interested in finding the most concise elegant way of doing the following: We have a function fun[x1,x2] and two lists: ls1={a1,a2,a3,a4,......} and ls2={b1,b2,b3,b4,......} I ... - asked by qahtah (7 votes), answered by halirutan (11 votes) —————————- [Legend displaying the expected number of points per unit area next to density plot] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160193/legend-displaying-the-expected-number-of-points-per-unit-area-next-to-density-pl I have 2d points and want to show a colored density plot of them. I also want to display a legend showing which point density (number of points per unit area) the colors in the plot represent. Let’s ... - asked by mrz (6 votes), answered by C. E. (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4025/creating-legends-for-plots-with-multiple-lines So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g. data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .} If I then do ListLinePlot[Table[{#1,Log[b,#2]}&amp;@@@data, {b,1,10,2}]] I have no way to generate a legend ... - asked by Eiyrioü von Kauyf (63 votes), answered by Jens (92 votes) —————————- [What does # mean in Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/19035/what-does-mean-in-mathematica I asked Mathematica to compute the following Solve[c (1-x)^2-x^(1/4) == 0, x] and it returned this: x = Root[#1^8 c^4 - 8 #1^7 c^4 + 28 #1^6 c^4 - 56 #1^5 c^4 + 70 #1^4 c^4 - 56 #1^3 c^4 + 28 ... - asked by ronanymous (21 votes), answered by Dr. belisarius (46 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Convergent infinite sum fails to converge in Sum[...]] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/160280/convergent-infinite-sum-fails-to-converge-in-sum It looks like this. Limit[Sum[1/((2 n + 1) Pi I - x), {n, -m, m}], m -&gt; ∞] = -(1/2) Tanh[x/2] Sum[1/((2 n + 1) Pi I - x), {n, -∞, ∞}] Sum::div: Sum does not converge. Turning on Regularization ... - asked by huotuichang (1 vote) —————————- [Stacked BarChart with Callout] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159945/stacked-barchart-with-callout BarChart examples include this code : BarChart[Table[Callout[RandomReal[{0, 1}], Unique["text"]], 2, 8], BarSpacing -&gt; 2, ChartLayout -&gt; "Stacked"] Its result should be : But I can’t ... - asked by qwerty (2 votes) —————————- [Possible to add a “Heading” for the columns in HDF5 format?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159978/possible-to-add-a-heading-for-the-columns-in-hdf5-format A similar post was found here, but it’s not using MMA. A small test to export HDF5 file, Export["test.h5", { "summary_Shoe" -&gt; anssummary, "summary_Tie" -&gt; anssummaryTie}] Woks fine. But ... - asked by Chen Stats Yu (3 votes) ### 9 Tuesday, November 14, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Drawing Clifford Attractors in Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159668/drawing-clifford-attractors-in-mathematica I came upon the ”Clifford Attractor” today, which are equations of the form: They create some incredible images by ... - asked by TreFox (24 votes), answered by Szabolcs (32 votes) —————————- [Mismatch between Mathematica and COMSOL in 3D FEM problem] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159506/mismatch-between-mathematica-and-comsol-in-3d-fem-problem I would like to solve an advection-diffusion problem on a torus domain. There are three Dirichlet conditions: One at the inlet (concentration ), one at the outlet () and one at the wall ... - asked by Alexander Erlich (16 votes) —————————- [Unexpected behaviors in built-in functions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159895/unexpected-behaviors-in-built-in-functions Existence of this topic is discussed in this mathematica.meta post. I’m sure I am not the only non-beginner in WL who from time to time finds themselves not being able to predict an outcome of a ... - asked by Kuba (14 votes), answered by Kuba (6 votes) —————————- [How to create a faded image using an existing image file] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159662/how-to-create-a-faded-image-using-an-existing-image-file The question is simple: How can I take an image of a perfect stamp (load an image file) such as and make it look old, worn, and faded, with missing arbitrary small bits, like the following stamp ... - asked by Vaggelis_Z (12 votes), answered by nikie (27 votes) —————————- [Building a Noisy Function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159614/building-a-noisy-function Here’s a nice function with a nice plot: f[t_] := Exp[-Abs[t]] Sin[t]; Plot[f[t], {t, -10, 10}, PlotRange -&gt; All] What I would like to do is to make it noisy... to add something to f[t] so ... - asked by bill s (10 votes), answered by David G. Stork (9 votes) —————————- [Inaccurate (non-smooth) boundary of the mesh generated by ToElementMesh] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159775/inaccurate-non-smooth-boundary-of-the-mesh-generated-by-toelementmesh I try to generate a mesh over a region, which has a wavy boundary at its bottom and needs very fine mesh around the bottom. However, the generated mesh boundary is not as smooth as the specified one. ... - asked by Wilhelm (8 votes), answered by user21 (4 votes) —————————- [remove transparency of background Image] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159837/remove-transparency-of-background-image I have the following image: As you can see the background is kind of white-ish. Now my question is: How can I remove this transperancy of the background image ? - asked by totyped (8 votes), answered by Coolwater (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Creating Mathematica packages] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29324/creating-mathematica-packages I’m building a package to help me write packages and their documentation. In this post I explained how to make a package and its documentation. In the answer I provided I describe how to build a very ... - asked by jmlopez (91 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (122 votes) —————————- [Difference between != and =!=] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153694/difference-between-and I (think I) understand the difference between == (semantic) and === (syntactic). So when comparing != and =!= I was expecting a similar difference. So can anyone explain why the third line in this ... - asked by GambitSquared (6 votes), answered by John Joseph M. Carrasco (12 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [On comparable hardware, is Mathematica known to perform better in one operating system over the others?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159699/on-comparable-hardware-is-mathematica-known-to-perform-better-in-one-operating Have any benchmarks been published by Wolfram Research to compare the performance of Mathematica in the major operating systems (Windows 10, Linux, MacOS)? If not, has anyone here performed such ... - asked by Shredderroy (7 votes) —————————- [Adjusting opacity in map overlays] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159843/adjusting-opacity-in-map-overlays I am currently working with rainfall data from hurricane Harvey in order to better understand how to allocate resources in the event of another disaster. I want to accomplish a few things given this ... - asked by Harrison Whorf (3 votes) —————————- [how to count or extract Cases out of list of association that matches pattern] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159783/how-to-count-or-extract-cases-out-of-list-of-association-that-matches-pattern I have list of associations lr1 = {&lt;|a -&gt; {0,0}, b -&gt; "TRUE"|&gt;, &lt;|b -&gt; "FALSE", a -&gt; {0,1}|&gt;, &lt;|a -&gt; {1,0}, b -&gt; "FALSE"|&gt;, &lt;|b -&gt; "TRUE", a -&gt; ... - asked by Dragutin (4 votes) ### 10 Tuesday, November 7, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Automatic edX Pdf Handout creator] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159065/automatic-edx-pdf-handout-creator I am trying to make an automatic handout creator for my courses on edX. It took me a long time to do it... (If you don’t know edX: https://www.edx.org/ I wrote a program that adds to each slide ... - asked by totyped (14 votes), answered by M. Stern (4 votes) —————————- [The area of a unit disk is ? (NIntegrate over a numerical region)] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159194/the-area-of-a-unit-disk-is-2-pi-nintegrate-over-a-numerical-region EDIT: The example below concerns the construction of a numerical region from a general boolean-valued function. The question of how to properly construct such a region has been answered below (by M. ... - asked by Will.Mo (13 votes), answered by m_goldberg (12 votes) —————————- [How many Capitals are closer to me than my own?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159041/how-many-capitals-are-closer-to-me-than-my-own A recent question in chat about ”When you are in Aachen, Germany, five other countries capitals are closer than Berlin.” triggered me to try to write something to find the cities automatically for ... - asked by pH13 - Yet another Philipp (9 votes), answered by J. M. (4 votes) —————————- [How to SortBy Last and in Reverse order?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159295/how-to-sortby-last-and-in-reverse-order I am looking at the two functions SortBy and ReverseSort. SortBy[{{1, 2, 3}, {2, 3, 1}, {3, 1, 2}, {2, 2}}, Last] {{2, 3, 1}, {2, 2}, {3, 1, 2}, {1, 2, 3}} How do I sort this by the ... - asked by Chen Stats Yu (7 votes), answered by J. M. (7 votes) —————————- [CatalanNumber[-1] formula on functions.wolfram.com unequals result from Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159143/catalannumber-1-formula-on-functions-wolfram-com-unequals-result-from-mathemat The formula for CatalanNumber[-1] on this functions.wolfram.com page gives: -(1/2) whereas CatalanNumber[-1] directly evaluated gives? -1 - asked by axelclk (7 votes), answered by J. M. (8 votes) —————————- [DiscretizeGraphics issues with transformations] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159035/discretizegraphics-issues-with-transformations I noticed DiscretizeGraphics does not work correctly with transformed Graphics such as Graphics[Rotate[Rectangle[], 30°]] Both using Rotate and GeometricTransformation together with ... - asked by Sascha (7 votes), answered by aardvark2012 (5 votes) —————————- [How to locate a stream line starting from a saddle point?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159093/how-to-locate-a-stream-line-starting-from-a-saddle-point I read in a table of gradient vectors and plot using the ListStreamPlot. I want to locate and color the line that represents the ”boundary” of the flux. A flux line that 1)starts from a saddle point ... - asked by Jun Liu (6 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18393/what-are-the-most-common-pitfalls-awaiting-new-users As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ... - asked by Dr. belisarius (407 votes), answered by Michael E2 (238 votes) —————————- [Image processing: Floor plan - detecting rooms’ borders (area) and room names’ texts] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/19546/image-processing-floor-plan-detecting-rooms-borders-area-and-room-names-t Here is a simple building floor plan. I would like to derive the rooms as (rectangular) components and the names of the rooms. This is very common representation of building floor plans. The ... - asked by s.s.o (52 votes), answered by nikie (52 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Editing pdf files with Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159074/editing-pdf-files-with-mathematica As an example, consider this pdf file. Would it be possible to edit the pdf, such as removing a logo, the page numbering and even frames, and save the result as a pdf? I would like to keep the pdf ... - asked by anderstood (4 votes) —————————- [A question concerning a generalization of HypergeometricPFQ] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159242/a-question-concerning-a-generalization-of-hypergeometricpfq I have been trying to find explicit formulas for the real and imaginary parts of the Wolfram function EllipticK. An interesting formula for the real part of EllipticK evaluated at a complex number is ... - asked by John M. Campbell (1 vote) —————————- [Export cdf does not work in MathKernel command line] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159210/export-cdf-does-not-work-in-mathkernel-command-line I am using Mathematica through command line MathKernel. I am not trying to draw any graphics in the console. But I should be able to export things a CDF. Why can’t I export a CDF through command line ... - asked by Neel Basu (2 votes) ### 11 Tuesday, October 31, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Implementing a planetary terrain generation algorithm] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158843/implementing-a-planetary-terrain-generation-algorithm From this (now deleted) question I found this site where the author discusses a simple technique for random terrain generation on a sphere. The method discussed is as follows: start with a ... - asked by b3m2a1 (18 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (19 votes) —————————- [Performance of Select] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158583/performance-of-select I have a data set of about 4*10^6 3d-coordinates. From this volume I am sequentially selecting coordinates along one axis and manipulating this subset. My question: can the Select function be ... - asked by mrz (15 votes), answered by kglr (23 votes) —————————- [Create a simple split tree] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158858/create-a-simple-split-tree I am trying to create a simple split tree. The growth should be only upwards, the vertical element length constant (1), the size of the horizontal bars should be halved in each iteration and the ... - asked by Niki (12 votes), answered by m_goldberg (10 votes) —————————- [Easy printing of executable code] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158901/easy-printing-of-executable-code I’m working on a package that has functions that call other existing and packaged functions. I’d like a way to output what some of those key calls are, so users can see what’s happening under the ... - asked by Chris K (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (10 votes) —————————- [Two bouncing balls in 1 dimension, issues with two different methods?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158857/two-bouncing-balls-in-1-dimension-issues-with-two-different-methods I’m trying to simulate 2 balls with the same mass and diameter bouncing one on top of another under gravity, see the illustration below (not ideal, but this is the best result I’ve got so far, the ... - asked by Yuriy S (8 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (7 votes) —————————- [Receive macOS notification when evaluation finishes] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158898/receive-macos-notification-when-evaluation-finishes Is Mathematica able to communicate with macOS’s native Notification Center in order to notify me if an evaluation finishes in any of my open notebooks? I’m looking for a solution similar to this one ... - asked by Casimir (8 votes), answered by Szabolcs (12 votes) —————————- [Why does repeated export of JPG-Images consume all memory?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158690/why-does-repeated-export-of-jpg-images-consume-all-memory I was looking in the history of asked questions for similar questions, but none of the alike questions answered my problem sufficiently. So I ask nevertheless. My system memory is leaked by simple ... - asked by sacratus (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Is it possible to draw this figure using Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110848/is-it-possible-to-draw-this-figure-using-mathematica The figure is See the how-to video or a speeded-up GIF. I believe it should be possible to draw this figure programmatically using some Random function, but I’m rather new to Mathematica, so I ... - asked by AccidentalFourierTransform (62 votes), answered by M.R. (87 votes) —————————- [Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3069/elegant-operations-on-matrix-rows-and-columns Question The Mathematica tutorial has a section ’Basic Matrix Operations’, describing operations like transpose, inverse and determinant. These operations all work on entire matrices. I am missing a ... - asked by sjdh (147 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (50 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Number Formatting Functions Do Not Evaluate with ExportString] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158694/number-formatting-functions-do-not-evaluate-with-exportstring I need to export in a particular text file format and tried NumberForm, PaddedForm, AccountingForm, and DecimalForm to see which would work best. To my surprise only NumberForm evaluates when ... - asked by Edmund (3 votes) —————————- [DSolve Throw::nocatch: Uncaught Throw[$Failed,balancefail] returned to top level. error in 11.2] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158817/dsolve-thrownocatch-uncaught-throwfailed-balancefail-returned-to-top-level

Reported also to WRI. [CASE:3965533]

I am in the process of updating Kamke differentional equations tests for 11.2 when encountered a new error I have not seen before on one of the Kamke ODE’s ...

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[Solve for several constants using a set of initial conditions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158783/solve-for-several-constants-using-a-set-of-initial-conditions

I have a set of differential equations that I am trying to solve for chemical reaction rate constants. So far I can get DSolve to solve the ODEs with initial conditions which provides the chemical ...

- asked by razzle_dazzle_84 (1 vote)

### 12 Tuesday, October 24, 2017

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[Strange behavior of Table] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158186/strange-behavior-of-table

Whenever I run the code

a = 0;
code := (a++);
Table[code; a, {1000}]

I get a list of 1000 zeros. However, if I replace 1000 with 100, then a get a list equal to Range[100]. Is this a bug or am I ...

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[Large increase in integrate result leaf size after version 9. Looking for common cause] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158059/large-increase-in-integrate-result-leaf-size-after-version-9-looking-for-common

reported to WRI. [CASE:3960295]

I run the CAS integration tests which contains 15000 integrals over number of Mathematica versions.

I found that the average leaf size of the anti-derivatives ...

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[Convert Real packed array of pairs to Complex packed array] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158082/convert-real-packed-array-of-pairs-to-complex-packed-array

I have a Real packed array arr. It may have arbitrary depth but
Last@Dimensions[arr] == 2.  For example,

arr = N@Partition[Partition[Range[24], {2}], 3]

I want to convert it to a Complex packed ...

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[Conversion of Matrix of Characters to a Matrix of Zeros and Ones based on Column Frequency] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158465/conversion-of-matrix-of-characters-to-a-matrix-of-zeros-and-ones-based-on-column

I have a matrix of characters that I wish to convert to a matrix of 0’ s and 1’ s. Although the matrix is large[17, 4301], I subsample this for purposes of my question. The matrix is:

m = {{"T",  ...

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[What’s the fastest way to take Mean of a Tensor in given slot?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158345/whats-the-fastest-way-to-take-mean-of-a-tensor-in-given-slot

One should expect that the implementation of the built-in function Mean was quick. However, as I recently observed, this is not true at all, in particular for matrices. Just compare Mean to the ...

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[Animating a Potential Function (eigenfunctions of Laplace’s equation)] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158412/animating-a-potential-function-eigenfunctions-of-laplaces-equation

I have written the following DynamicModule. The idea is that you can change the boundary, calculate the eigenfunctions and then animate them. Here is the code:

DynamicModule[{pts, bdr = {{0, 0}, {1,  ...

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[How to implement a free version of WebImageSearch?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158134/how-to-implement-a-free-version-of-webimagesearch

I really don’t like functions that I have to pay for, if they can be implemented for free.

Is there a way to get around this pay-wall for WebImageSearch? Perhaps using some other free api or service? ...

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[How to express trigonometric equation in terms of of given trigonometric function?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/434/how-to-express-trigonometric-equation-in-terms-of-of-given-trigonometric-functio

How can I express a trigonometric equation / identity in terms of a given trigonometric function?

using following trigonometric identities

Sin[x]^2+Cos[x]^2==1
Sin[x]/Cos[x]==Tan[x]
...

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[Learn Mathematica (Wolfram) Language in one day] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138366/learn-mathematica-wolfram-language-in-one-day

Currently I am trying to learn Python. Searching for relevant material I came across

X in Y minutes

and books with titles such as Learn Python in one day, in 24 hours, etc.

Similar material exists ...

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[How to draw a generic 3D closed shape to be analyzed in AceFEM?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158446/how-to-draw-a-generic-3d-closed-shape-to-be-analyzed-in-acefem

I would like to draw a 3D shape to test my AceGen procedure. I will insert the AceFEM part of my code. In this example, I have performed the analysis on a hexahedron element.

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[Kernel crash with KeySelect and repeated keys on list of rules] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158421/kernel-crash-with-keyselect-and-repeated-keys-on-list-of-rules

After running

KeySelect[{"a" -&gt; 0, "a" -&gt; 1}, True &amp;]

my kernel either hangs forever (possibly with the eventual warning that ”the kernel is not responding to a Dynamic evaluation”) or ...

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[How to remove circled noise from image] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/158123/how-to-remove-circled-noise-from-image

Consider a simplified example:

noise

noise = Table[
RandomVariate[
NormalDistribution[1, 0.2]] Sin[Sqrt[x^2 + y^2]]^8, {x, -16,
16 - 16/512, 32/512}, {y, -16, 16 - 16/512, 32/512}];

...

### 13 Tuesday, October 17, 2017

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[Is building an event-based parser possible/reasonable in Mathematica (WL)?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157834/is-building-an-event-based-parser-possible-reasonable-in-mathematica-wl

Too long? Go to Problems section

Background

I like to learn by doing small, sometimes artificial, projects. Among other things I had ’parsers’, and ’stream methods / streams in MMA’ on my to learn ...

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[Test if a list is a constant integer multiple of another list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157783/test-if-a-list-is-a-constant-integer-multiple-of-another-list

I have a list of lists, and I want to eliminate all the lists that are constant integer multiples of another list. My initial approach was to divide the lists using nested tables.

ex1 = {{1, 1, 1},  ...

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Bug introduced between versions 10.1 and 10.4, and persisting through 11.2. Reported to Wolfram, Inc as CASE:3958778.

Using either 11.2 or 10.4 on Windows 10 (64 bit), I am unable to reproduce the ...

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[Does ‘SeedRandom‘ give the same set of random numbers across operating systems?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157621/does-seedrandom-give-the-same-set-of-random-numbers-across-operating-systems

If I use

SeedRandom[12345]
RandomReal[{0,1},100]

I get the same random numbers on two versions of Mathematica: 10.4.1.0 on Windows 10 and 11.1.1.0 on Windows 7.

But does the same seed get the ...

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[Fill the data of an Association based on a list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157852/fill-the-data-of-an-association-based-on-a-list

Consider the following the list and association.

list1 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10};
asc = &lt;|1 -&gt; a, 4 -&gt; b, 7 -&gt; c, 10 -&gt; d|&gt;;

I would like to create an association which ...

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[How to extract data points from two graphics and find the intersections between them?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157787/how-to-extract-data-points-from-two-graphics-and-find-the-intersections-between

I am working on a mathematical problem called ”Buffon’s Needle”. Here is the setup I made:

point[v_, u_] := Normalize[v - u] + u

experiment50 = Show[
Graphics[
Table[{
RGBColor[0, 0, 0],
...

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I have a very large ragged list result that is a list of list of pairs where sometimes the sub-list contains the empty list.

res = {{{20, 1}, {200, 2}}, {{}}, {{175, 1}}};

In the above minimal ...

================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================

[LATEXand Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/736/latex-and-mathematica

I quite often would like to draw graphics in my LATEXdocuments using Mathematica. I have encountered three problems. I would like to know if there are any workarounds to these problems

I would ...

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[Code that generates a mandala] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136974/code-that-generates-a-mandala

My little brother asked me to print original mandalas for coloring. I would like some idea on how to create them, but without color, so he can color them.

examples

================================== Can you answer these? ==================================

[Export BatchNormalizationLayer as MXNet] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157856/export-batchnormalizationlayer-as-mxnet

I just tried to import a net from mathemtica into pythons using MXNet. It works fine with the following manual.

However, as soon as I try to add a BatchNormalizationLayer to my net MXNets bind() ...

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[ListPlot point colors by list of colorfunctions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157963/listplot-point-colors-by-list-of-colorfunctions

I would like to display the positions of a collection of particles as a function of time (animated) and color code them based on their velocities. For example, consider 10 particles moving in a 2D ...

- asked by SeanM (1 vote)

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[Why are Label Pixelated?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157693/why-are-label-pixelated

It seems that Mathematica implements the processing of labels quite different for different plot-functions.

The good ->
Plot[]:

l1 = GraphPlot[Table[i -&gt; 1, {i, 0, 1}]]
TPlot = Plot[{Cos[x],  ...

### 14 Tuesday, October 10, 2017

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[How can I determine the type of a packed array?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157484/how-can-i-determine-the-type-of-a-packed-array

Packed arrays can be of type Integer, Real or Complex. Knowing that an array arr is packed, how can I efficiently determine its type?

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[Deleting sublists from lists] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157267/deleting-sublists-from-lists

I have a list consisting of symbols and integers. I would like to delete the integers from the list only if a symbol precedes and follows each integer:

testList={a,b,3,c,4,5,d,e,f,1,g,4}

becomes:

...

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[Summation bug in 11.2] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157290/summation-bug-in-11-2

If I sum all the positive-numbered Fourier coefficients of , I get the correct answer. If I sum the negative-numbered ones, I get a wrong answer. Splitting the sum into two parts somehow ...

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[Calculating the size of objects in the picture] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157374/calculating-the-size-of-objects-in-the-picture

I’m new to Wolfram Mathematica. I have an initial image:

My goal is to find a radius of the water drop, like so:

With that in mind, I’ve changed the initial photo:

resultImage = ...

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[Overlapping graphic primitives] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157489/overlapping-graphic-primitives

I am trying to make a figure in Mathematica using some graphic primitives:

rod[l_, r_] :=   GraphicsGroup[{Opacity[.1], {Disk[{-l/2 + r, 0},
r, {\[Pi]/2 , 3 \[Pi]/2}]}, {Disk[{l/2 - r, 0},
r,  ...

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[How can I implement my own documentation search function?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157303/how-can-i-implement-my-own-documentation-search-function

The current documentation search doesn’t allow for very sophisticate searching, can I write my own function to search through the docs?

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[Can I implement something like the old documentation help browser?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157317/can-i-implement-something-like-the-old-documentation-help-browser

Old versions of Mathematica had a help browser that was more click through and structured. How can I reimplement something like that for the new (since v6) docs?

================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================

[What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18393/what-are-the-most-common-pitfalls-awaiting-new-users

As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...

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[How do I clear all user defined symbols?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/850/how-do-i-clear-all-user-defined-symbols

Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -&gt; Quit kernel and firing a new one up?

================================== Can you answer these? ==================================

[Memoization of built in function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157429/memoization-of-built-in-function

What is the best way to let mathematica memoize built-in function like e.g.

SphericalHarmonicY[l,m,th,ph]

One possibility would be for sure:

sphericalHarmonicY[l_,m_,th_,ph_]:=  ...

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[Can’t import Gluon into mma] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157466/cant-import-gluon-into-mma

This is a simple DNN from Fast, portable neural networks with Gluon HybridBlocks:

This is json file and params file of Gluon(MXNet)

import mxnet as mx from mxnet.gluon import nn print(”mxnet ...

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[NIntegrate and definite Integrate give different results] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157300/nintegrate-and-definite-integrate-give-different-results

Suppose the function

f[x_,q_]=(15876 Exp[-0.527076 q^2] (x^2-2 x+2) SphericalBesselJ[1,5 q]^2 (q^2-8100 x^2))/(3425*Pi*q^5*x);

I need to perform the integration over q in the domain ...

- asked by John Taylor (1 vote)

### 15 Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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[Frown for a sex change, or, how do I unbork the ”FacialGender” classifier in 11.2?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156847/frown-for-a-sex-change-or-how-do-i-unbork-the-facialgender-classifier-in-11

The limits of machine learning. I thought the new ”FacialGender” option for Classifier would be an amusing thing to explore.

So far, so good. But that’s me with bed-head. So let’s try a picture ...

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[Improve the mesh smoothing procedure] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156611/improve-the-mesh-smoothing-procedure

The following functions are my (naive) try of implementing the Laplacian smoothing. I find interior nodes in the mesh ...

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[Possible bug in RegionUnion or related functions?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/157031/possible-bug-in-regionunion-or-related-functions

Functions for derived geometric regions (RegionUnion and related) have been significantly updated in MMA 11.2 and now this simple example doesn’t work any more as expected. Could this be a bug or I am ...

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[Dataset - append row with a value which depends on two other rows] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156980/dataset-append-row-with-a-value-which-depends-on-two-other-rows

I have go through the forum but did not see this question. Hope I don’t miss it.

I want to add a new colum ”C” to a dataset with existing columns named ”A” and ”B”. The value of ”C” shall be the ...

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[How to tell Mathematica to do this with decimal part of real number?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156823/how-to-tell-mathematica-to-do-this-with-decimal-part-of-real-number

My apologies if this was asked here before.

My friend and I want to do this:

Suppose that we have some real number where are digits in the set ...

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[FullForm of b/c and c/b with different order] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156757/fullform-of-b-c-and-c-b-with-different-order

I am studying Mathematica myself and doing some exercises for improvement.

Question: Try to guess the internal forms of b/c and c/b. Verify your

Here is what I got by ...

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[Generate random walk on a graph] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156626/generate-random-walk-on-a-graph

I have a graph with 100 nodes and 200 edges. How can I generate a random walk in it and animate it?

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[How to find the position of elements in a list satisfying criteria] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/180/how-to-find-the-position-of-elements-in-a-list-satisfying-criteria

Say I have a list x={2,4,6,8,10} and I want to find out the
positions of the elements that are greater than 7.

Select[x, #&gt;7&amp;] gives the elements themselves, and Position[x,8] gives the  ...

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[How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/34073/how-to-calculate-contour-integrals-with-mathematica

How to calculate the integral of over the unit circle counterclockwise for each branch of the integrand?

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[How to decode Ascii85 format (AKA base85)?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156667/how-to-decode-ascii85-format-aka-base85

The ASCII85 encoding is a binary string encoding where every four bytes are encoded with five ASCII letters, using 85 different types of characters.

Unfortunately, it’s not in $CharacterEncodings: ... - asked by M.R. (2 votes) —————————- [FIR filter and the relation between Sample rate and cut-off frequency] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156685/fir-filter-and-the-relation-between-sample-rate-and-cut-off-frequency I have problem to unterstand the logic of the cut-off frequency of the FIR filter. Suppose my sample rate is 2MHz and I want to design a lowpass filter with a cut-off frequency 100Hz. What will be ... - asked by shabir barzanjeh (2 votes) —————————- [FindCluster only finds cluster ”with a little help”] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156984/findcluster-only-finds-cluster-with-a-little-help Currently I made some slides to illustrate clustering. As an example I made a point set of two clusters: {clusters, graph} = Block[{c1, c2, cluster1, cluster2}, c1 = {1, 2}; cluster1 = (# + ... - asked by mgamer (4 votes) ### 16 Tuesday, September 26, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Finite element mesh not resolving features] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156174/finite-element-mesh-not-resolving-features I am trying to make a finite element mesh in 2D. The features are not found by ToElementMesh. This is a shelf bracket with nails. I build the region using RegionDifference and RegionUnion and the ... - asked by Hugh (11 votes), answered by Young (9 votes) —————————- [Are the mail settings as given in preferences still programmatically accessible in V 11.2] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156183/are-the-mail-settings-as-given-in-preferences-still-programmatically-accessible In versions before 11.2 (and after 9) one could get the current settings as defined in the preferences (Internet &amp; Email -> Mail Settings) with Options[SendMail]. As the options for SendMail have ... - asked by Albert Retey (11 votes), answered by rhermans (9 votes) —————————- [Implement fractional Laplacian] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156420/implement-fractional-laplacian What is a way to implement the Fractional Laplacian with Mathematica? How can we apply such implementation to numerically solve the problem $$(-\Delta)^su = 1 \text{ in } B_1(0), \\ u = 0 \text{ in ... - asked by Jay (9 votes), answered by Henrik Schumacher (14 votes) —————————- [Blur, GaussianFilter and ImageConvolve doesn’t work on some images] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156210/blur-gaussianfilter-and-imageconvolve-doesnt-work-on-some-images In versions 8.0.4 and 9.0.1 applying Blur to an image gives expected result: img = Import["http://i.stack.imgur.com/UsJTa.png"] blurred = Blur[img, 5] ColorSeparate[blurred] But ... - asked by Alexey Popkov (9 votes), answered by Alexey Popkov (11 votes) —————————- [Error and uncertainty propagation: Is using Precision/Accuracy a sound strategy?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156481/error-and-uncertainty-propagation-is-using-precision-accuracy-a-sound-strategy Questions What are the available resources to deal with experimental error and uncertainty propagation in Mathematica? Given that Mathematica already uses linearized model of error propagation on ... - asked by rhermans (8 votes) —————————- [Unexpected behavior using ‘ReplaceAll[]‘ for nested lists] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156538/unexpected-behavior-using-replaceall-for-nested-lists ReplaceAll[] might lead to unexpected behavior (at least it surprised me). I use ReplaceAll[] to convert a list (basically data cleanup). For the command: {{1, "2"}, {2, "3"}} /. {x_, _ } :&gt; {x, ... - asked by Dennis (7 votes), answered by Szabolcs (9 votes) —————————- [What are the possible Method option values for plotting functions?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156475/what-are-the-possible-method-option-values-for-plotting-functions Many plotting functions have a Method options with descriptions like this: Plot: ”the method to use for refining curves” RegionPlot: ”the method to use for refining regions” ContourPlot: ”the method ... - asked by Szabolcs (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to perform a multi-peak fitting?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/how-to-perform-a-multi-peak-fitting I am wondering how to implement the multi-peak detecting and fitting in Mathematica. Following is an example of fitting the data using three peaks (such that the data ~ peak1 + peak2 + peak3). The ... - asked by Everett You (46 votes), answered by Silvia (47 votes) —————————- [How do I clear all user defined symbols?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/850/how-do-i-clear-all-user-defined-symbols Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -&gt; Quit kernel and firing a new one up? - asked by niklasfi (55 votes), answered by Artes (54 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Possible Symbolic Integration Bug] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156215/possible-symbolic-integration-bug Bug introduced between 5 and 8 and persisting through 11.2 I think I may have found a bug, and want to verify is this reproducible in other versions and platforms and not a mistake of mine. I ... - asked by yyli (5 votes) —————————- [Finding the slowest decay to a value for a 2D function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156338/finding-the-slowest-decay-to-a-value-for-a-2d-function I have a function acf2[x,y] that describes the auto-correlation function of a simulated real surface, with a peak at the origin (acf2[0,0] = 1), and need to find the maximum distance from the origin ... - asked by L.Todhunter (1 vote) —————————- [Can Mathematica run javascript on a website?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156377/can-mathematica-run-javascript-on-a-website One way of running Javascript on a website is to use for instance Greasemonkey. By any chance, would it be possible to execute Javascript commands from Mathematica? - asked by anderstood (1 vote) ### 17 Tuesday, September 19, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Pop-up appeared and then disappeared during first documentation search in 11.2] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155717/pop-up-appeared-and-then-disappeared-during-first-documentation-search-in-11-2 After installing Mathematica 11.2, the first time I searched for something in the help center a pop-up appeared and then disappeared. It didn’t appear on a subsequent search, even if I restarted ... - asked by Itai Seggev (23 votes), answered by Itai Seggev (26 votes) —————————- [ExternalEvaluate for Python fails with Import::nopythonevals] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155821/externalevaluate-for-python-fails-with-importnopythonevals I tried using ExternalEvaluate on OS X with Anaconda Python, and every ExternalEvaluate call failed with the Import::nopythonevals message. This happened even though an external evaluator was ... - asked by Szabolcs (15 votes), answered by Szabolcs (12 votes) —————————- [Visualizing a holomorphic bijection between the unit disc and a domain] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155954/visualizing-a-holomorphic-bijection-between-the-unit-disc-and-a-domain One can construct a holomorphic bijection between the (open) unit disc , and a domain where denotes the ball of radius ... - asked by Jack (12 votes), answered by Michael E2 (13 votes) —————————- [How to create search indices for custom documentation pages?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155932/how-to-create-search-indices-for-custom-documentation-pages I have a package that uses custom documentation pages that are not generated with Wolfram Workbench. How can I create search indices for these pages? Requirements: Searching should work in ... - asked by Szabolcs (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (1 vote) —————————- [Compile M11.1-compatible LibraryLink libraries using M11.2] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155940/compile-m11-1-compatible-librarylink-libraries-using-m11-2 WolframLibraryVersion, defined in WolframLibrary.h, was bumped from 3 to 4 in Mathematica 11.2. This causes libraries compiled with M11.2 to fail to load in earlier versions. Is it possible to ... - asked by Szabolcs (9 votes) —————————- [How to insert dimensions in graphics?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155677/how-to-insert-dimensions-in-graphics I’m creating figures (a T beam section) using the Graphics function. Like this: a = Graphics[Polygon[{{0, 80}, {0, 85}, {100, 85}, {100, 80}}]]; b = Graphics[Polygon[{{47.5, 80}, {52.5, 80}, {52.5, ... - asked by Diogo (9 votes), answered by wxffles (10 votes) —————————- [Mathematica 11.2 Import Statement Produces Errors & Truncates CSV Data Created in 11.1] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155908/mathematica-11-2-import-statement-produces-errors-truncates-csv-data-created-i Bug introduced in 11.2.0 TL;DR Issue 1 (bug): Import of CSV files with column specification fails when "HeaderLines" or "SkipLines" option is used: Import["ExampleData/financialtimeseries.csv", ... - asked by Joseph Karpinski (8 votes), answered by Itai Seggev (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66273/how-to-tell-mathematica-that-certain-variables-are-real-imaginary-integer-value I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations (expectation values etc.) by running them through Mathematica. When I say, for example, u[x_] := Sqrt[2/L] * Sin[Pi * n * x / L] and then ... - asked by Matthew Brunetti (17 votes), answered by SquareOne (11 votes) —————————- [How do I clear all user defined symbols?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/850/how-do-i-clear-all-user-defined-symbols Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -&gt; Quit kernel and firing a new one up? - asked by niklasfi (55 votes), answered by Artes (54 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Covariant derivative given Christoffel symbols] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155871/covariant-derivative-given-christoffel-symbols I’ve been trying to take covariant derivative of various quantities along various surfaces in Mathematica, but I keep running into issues, frequently I get a tensor with the wrong dimension. Using the ... - asked by Noahb32 (1 vote) —————————- [How to pass in-memory images through ExternalEvaluate?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/156051/how-to-pass-in-memory-images-through-externalevaluate Version 11.2 has a new import/export format PythonExpression. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out-of-the-box with images: And using the ImageData directly is too slow: Anyhow, I have some image ... - asked by M.R. (4 votes) —————————- [GeneralizedLinearModelFit IRwLS] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155692/generalizedlinearmodelfit-irwls I’m interested in Mathematica’s capabilities with regard to robust fitting vs. outliers. In the Statistical Model Analysis Tutorial under the Generalized Linear Models section heading, there is this ... - asked by Chris Chiasson (1 vote) ### 18 Tuesday, September 12, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Framework behind Graph plots. DynamicNamespace and friends] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155237/framework-behind-graph-plots-dynamicnamespace-and-friends As shown in DynamicLocation usage, we can use it to quickly create very nice functionality, that it to refer to graphics’ primitives relative coordinates without calculations of boundary etc. As ... - asked by Kuba (15 votes), answered by Kuba (12 votes) —————————- [DynamicLocation usage] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155157/dynamiclocation-usage Background DynamicLocation can be very useful: LocatorPane[Dynamic@x, Graphics[ { EdgeForm @ Thick, FaceForm @ None, Rectangle[BoxID -&gt; "box"] , Arrow[{Dynamic[x], ... - asked by Kuba (14 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (9 votes) —————————- [How can I use GitHub as a paclet server?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155123/how-can-i-use-github-as-a-paclet-server I want to use GitHub as a paclet server, but this fails: PacletInstall[ "ServiceConnection_StackExchange", "Site" -&gt; "https:/github.com/b3m2a1/PacletServer" ] PacletSiteUpdate::err: An error ... - asked by b3m2a1 (13 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (16 votes) —————————- [Permanently extending the behaviour of functions (like decorators)] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155567/permanently-extending-the-behaviour-of-functions-like-decorators Suppose I have a function, e.g. f[x_] := x^2 It works like this: f[5] (* 25 *) I would like to permanently modify it so that calling f[5] will perform some action before and after the evaluation ... - asked by Szabolcs (11 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (9 votes) —————————- [Is Tooltip broken in MMA 11.1.1?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155434/is-tooltip-broken-in-mma-11-1-1 Bug introduced in 11.1.0 and persisting through 11.1.1 I have just discovered that Tooltip works differently from as described in the documentation, at least in my version of MMA (11.1.1.0, Windows ... - asked by Oleg Soloviev (9 votes) —————————- [Install paclets into BaseDirectory on multi-user system] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155122/install-paclets-into-basedirectory-on-multi-user-system PacletInstall will install paclets into the UserBaseDirectory by default. How can we install them in BaseDirectory so that all users on the system will have access? Is this currently possible? ... - asked by Szabolcs (9 votes), answered by halirutan (5 votes) —————————- [How can I reproduce the result of PrincipalComponents] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155467/how-can-i-reproduce-the-result-of-principalcomponents matrix = N[{{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {4, 10}}] {{1., 2.}, {2., 3.}, {4., 10.}} res1 = PrincipalComponents[matrix, Method -&gt; "Correlation"] {{1.10388, 0.130549}, {0.478746, -0.170139}, {-1.58262, ... - asked by HyperGroups (8 votes), answered by J. M. (13 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad. Is ... - asked by Tianxiang Xiong (52 votes), answered by Artes (40 votes) —————————- [What does # mean in Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/19035/what-does-mean-in-mathematica I asked Mathematica to compute the following Solve[c (1-x)^2-x^(1/4) == 0, x] and it returned this: x = Root[#1^8 c^4 - 8 #1^7 c^4 + 28 #1^6 c^4 - 56 #1^5 c^4 + 70 #1^4 c^4 - 56 #1^3 c^4 + 28 ... - asked by ronanymous (20 votes), answered by Dr. belisarius (43 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Question about RandomSeed option in AdaptiveMonteCarlo NIntegrate method] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155249/question-about-randomseed-option-in-adaptivemontecarlo-nintegrate-method I’ve been familiarising myself with the different options available in the AdaptiveMonteCarlo method for NIntegrate but one of the things that I can’t really understand is what the numbers correspond ... - asked by user35305 (1 vote) —————————- [Delete duplicates in a list compiled of different lists and also delete] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155261/delete-duplicates-in-a-list-compiled-of-different-lists-and-also-delete I've got three lists: Lst1 has 100 different values for "r". Lst2 has 100 different values for "a". And Lst3=Pi*Lst1^2*Lst2. In Lst3 I've got duplicates and I want to get rid of them, but I also want ... - asked by Cornelis (1 vote) —————————- [How to implement LinkLaunch-like functionality with timeout?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155493/how-to-implement-linklaunch-like-functionality-with-timeout tl;dr: What is the best way (and correct sequence of operations) to connect two programs using MathLink while anticipating failures / timeouts? Launch program and connect, with timeout I have a ... - asked by Szabolcs (4 votes) ### 19 Tuesday, September 5, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Finding largest/smallest element] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154944/finding-n-textth-largest-smallest-element Ordering can quickly find the position of the largest/smallest element in a list, but finding the position of the largest/smallest element is much slower: data = RandomReal[10, 10^7]; ... - asked by Carl Woll (13 votes), answered by Carl Woll (12 votes) —————————- [Fast pairwise SameQ test of an ordered list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155017/fast-pairwise-sameq-test-of-an-ordered-list I have an ordered list of numbers, and I want to find out whether adjacent numbers are SameQ or not, returning a list of 0s and 1s of length . One approach is something like: ... - asked by Carl Woll (11 votes), answered by jkuczm (8 votes) —————————- [Given an ordered set S, find the points in S corresponding to another list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154893/given-an-ordered-set-s-find-the-points-in-s-corresponding-to-another-list Given a sorted list of numbers , I want to create a function that accepts a list of numbers and for each number it returns the index of the largest number such that ... - asked by Carl Woll (11 votes), answered by nikie (13 votes) —————————- [Geolocate multiple IP addresses] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155076/geolocate-multiple-ip-addresses I would like to geolocate a few hundred IP addresses (as part of analysing server logs). What is the best way to do this using Mathematica? Does Mathematica have any builtin functionality for this? ... - asked by Szabolcs (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (9 votes) —————————- [How to connect two images] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155093/how-to-connect-two-images I have talk about how to catenate two images whose have same part totally in my this post. But in this case two images have similar information, not totally same. img1 = Import @ ... - asked by yode (9 votes), answered by Kuba (8 votes) —————————- [Filter elements in descending order] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154761/filter-elements-in-descending-order I want to solve the following problem efficiently: Given a list of pairs (value, data), I want to remove all the pairs so that the resulting list has the value property of its elements sorted. That ... - asked by José D. (9 votes), answered by Mathe172 (9 votes) —————————- [Changing numbers inside list to a list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154911/changing-numbers-inside-list-to-a-list I have a list wich contains numbers and other lists, and what I want is to change every number x to x,0. So if the function I’m seeking is called f, then a = {1,Pi,2+3I,{1,2},{3,4},-2} f[a] ... - asked by Garmekain (8 votes), answered by John Joseph M. Carrasco (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Is it possible to draw this figure using Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/110848/is-it-possible-to-draw-this-figure-using-mathematica The figure is See the how-to video or a speeded-up GIF. I believe it should be possible to draw this figure programmatically using some Random function, but I’m rather new to Mathematica, so I ... - asked by AccidentalFourierTransform (62 votes), answered by M.R. (86 votes) —————————- [Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3242/can-mathematica-do-symbolic-linear-algebra For instance, is there some way I can say ”let A and B be arbitrary real and matrices, Simplify[Transpose[Transpose[A].Transpose[B]]]” and Mathematica would simplify it to B.A? ... - asked by nikie (47 votes), answered by helen (25 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Strange result for an improper integral ] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/155066/strange-result-for-an-improper-integral-int-01-fracx-1-2ex-1-s The improper integral is convergent conditionally. (Applying Dirichlet Test, ... - asked by user250236 (1 vote) —————————- [Perplexing simplification of RotationMatrix] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154793/perplexing-simplification-of-rotationmatrix The result of FullSimplify[RotationMatrix[θ, {Cos[ψ], Sin[ψ], 0}], ψ &gt; 0].{0, 0, 1} in Mathematica 11 is {Sign[Sec[ψ]]^2 Sin[θ] Sin[ψ], -Cos[ψ] Sin[θ], Cos[θ]} instead of the nicer result ... - asked by theindigamer (1 vote) —————————- [collecting terms with different order] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154849/collecting-terms-with-different-order I am using homotopy perturbation method to solve nonlinear ODE. The first step is to introduce P parameter and collect different order of P. The code is like this: Collect[(1 - p) ((((1 + ... - asked by sajad.sharhani (1 vote) ### 20 Tuesday, August 29, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Inserting some zeros in a list by a rule of positions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154551/inserting-some-zeros-in-a-list-by-a-rule-of-positions I have a list: mainlist={0.23, 0.34, 0.8, 0.0, -0.2, 0.4, -0.1}; I have to extend the above list to another one finalresult with Length=17. But in finalresult the elements of the mainlist must be ... - asked by Inzo Babaria (12 votes), answered by John Joseph M. Carrasco (14 votes) —————————- [How to use Streaming package in v11.1?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154439/how-to-use-streaming-package-in-v11-1 I am trying to use the streaming package for lazy list operations demonstrated in this post. But I found that the package was significantly changed in version 11. After some observations, I found that ... - asked by happy fish (11 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (9 votes) —————————- [Interior of discretized region] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154544/interior-of-discretized-region I have some domain of interest: r = 0.3; dom = ImplicitRegion[(x - 1/2)^2 + (y - 1/2)^2 &gt;= r^2, {{x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}}]; Now I can extract mesh of the whole domain or just boundary: ... - asked by user16320 (9 votes), answered by C. E. (10 votes) —————————- [Orientation of boundary domain normals] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154656/orientation-of-boundary-domain-normals I would like to use BoundaryNormals provided by the ElementMesh object. To demonstrate my problem I will take my favorite domain: dom = ImplicitRegion[(x - 1/2)^2 + (y - 1/2)^2 &gt;= (1/4)^2, {{x, 0, ... - asked by user16320 (8 votes), answered by user16320 (4 votes) —————————- [Best Practices for Creating CDF e-textbook] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154550/best-practices-for-creating-cdf-e-textbook I attended a talk given by Eric Schulz a few years ago. It was similar to his talk ”Sharing Wisdom Gained from Publishing a CDF Ebook” given here. I am Math instructor and have been creating ... - asked by Michael McCain (8 votes) —————————- [Markdown parser in Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154634/markdown-parser-in-mathematica Is there already a markdown to XML parser implemented in Mathematica? I wrote a one for my pelican rewrite, but realized I should have asked here first. Mine is almost certainly faulty in a few major ... - asked by b3m2a1 (7 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (3 votes) —————————- [ListContourPlot with hatched regions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154481/listcontourplot-with-hatched-regions I’m using ListContourPlot on a table of data, and I’d like to hash the regions rather than colour them, so the plot works in black and white. data = Flatten[Table[{x, y, Cos[x] + Cos[y]}, {x, 0, 3, ... - asked by KraZug (7 votes), answered by John Joseph M. Carrasco (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4025/creating-legends-for-plots-with-multiple-lines So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g. data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .} If I then do ListLinePlot[Table[{#1,Log[b,#2]}&amp;@@@data, {b,1,10,2}]] I have no way to generate a legend ... - asked by Eiyrioü von Kauyf (61 votes), answered by Jens (91 votes) —————————- [Learn Mathematica (Wolfram) Language in one day] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138366/learn-mathematica-wolfram-language-in-one-day Currently I am trying to learn Python. Searching for relevant material I came across X in Y minutes and books with titles such as Learn Python in one day, in 24 hours, etc. Similar material exists ... - asked by dimitris (26 votes), answered by masterxilo (11 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [NetTrain with External GPU?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154380/nettrain-with-external-gpu I’d like to use the new Neural Networks functionalities in v11 on my Macbook Pro, unfortunately, most macs do not have the supported Nvidia cards. However, there is the option for using an external ... - asked by M.R. (3 votes) —————————- [Solution (numerical or symbolic) of functional equations?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154515/solution-numerical-or-symbolic-of-functional-equations Can I solve functional equations with Mathematica? How? For example, I am trying to solve: for specific values of . Can ... - asked by becko (1 vote) —————————- [Amplitude of a transfer function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154489/amplitude-of-a-transfer-function I’m looking to calculate the amplitude of a transfer function which is defined in a symbolic way : T=(1 + 2 I r λ)/(1 - r^2 + 2 I r λ) I try this, i doesn't work Assuming[{λ &gt; 0, r &gt; 0}, ... - asked by Bendesarts (1 vote) ### 21 Tuesday, August 22, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Mathematica vs. Comsol for finite element analysis?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154254/mathematica-vs-comsol-for-finite-element-analysis Being relatively new to finite element analysis, I was wondering how expert users assess Mathematica’s capabilities in solving PDEs via the finite element method compared to other commercial tools ... - asked by Alexander Erlich (13 votes), answered by Alexei Boulbitch (7 votes) —————————- [Mathematica Syntax Coloring in GitHub README] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153836/mathematica-syntax-coloring-in-github-readme GitHub doesn’t auto-detect and color Mathematica code in its markdown. Can we make it do so? This may be trivial, but many README files don’t seem to have it. - asked by b3m2a1 (10 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (13 votes) —————————- [HoldPattern vs Unevaluated] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153844/holdpattern-vs-unevaluated For learning purposes I created this code: {g, 3*(10 + g)} /. HoldPattern[Plus[t__]] :&gt; (Plus[t] /. g -&gt; h) I am learning about HoldPattern. As I understand it HoldPattern makes sure that the ... - asked by GambitSquared (8 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (9 votes) —————————- [Who is to blame: parsing UTF8 encoded JSON HTTPResponse fails] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154245/who-is-to-blame-parsing-utf8-encoded-json-httpresponse-fails Background V11.1.1 I’m using URLRead to fetch some data, can’t show everything but headers contain: "content-type-&gt;application/json; charset=utf-8" and body (returned from URLRead) contains ... - asked by Kuba (7 votes), answered by Alexey Popkov (5 votes) —————————- [Number elements in a list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153951/number-elements-in-a-list I’m trying to learn more about list replacement without using Table. I have a list like this: list = {{{"a", "b", "c"}, {"d", "e", "f"}, {"g", "h", "i"}}} Now, I want to modify the list elements, ... - asked by holistic (7 votes), answered by MarcoB (9 votes) —————————- [Fill a sphere above an arbitrary curve] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153994/fill-a-sphere-above-an-arbitrary-curve I have a function which generates a curve on the surface of a unit sphere, parameterised by the azimuthal angle. How can I plot a sphere with two different colour above and below this curve? f[t_] := ... - asked by Tom (6 votes), answered by Kuba (9 votes) —————————- [is it possible to change/customize some conversions done by TeXForm?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153876/is-it-possible-to-change-customize-some-conversions-done-by-texform I use TeXForm to convert output of some computation to Latex. I’d like to ask if there is a way to override/change/customize some of these conversions, related to just the name Mathematica assigns to ... - asked by Nasser (6 votes), answered by jkuczm (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to manipulate 2D plots?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/7142/how-to-manipulate-2d-plots When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ... - asked by István Zachar (122 votes), answered by István Zachar (137 votes) —————————- [Mathematica erroneously says this integral does not converge] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144965/mathematica-erroneously-says-this-integral-does-not-converge Mathematica (as of v. 11.1.0) does not recognize that this special case of Frullani’s integral converges: Integrate[(ArcTan[a*x] - ArcTan[b*x])/x, {x, 0, Infinity}] (* Integrate::idiv: Integral of ... - asked by Pillsy (14 votes), answered by Michael E2 (20 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Is there a good explanation of the output of FeatureExtract anywhere?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/154044/is-there-a-good-explanation-of-the-output-of-featureextract-anywhere I have been looking at the official documentation of FeatureExtract, and I’m having a bit of difficulty interpreting the output–or understanding the reasons for some of the choices that were made. ... - asked by Shredderroy (1 vote) —————————- [How to work out sums symbolically?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153820/how-to-work-out-sums-symbolically Intro Consider these two equal expressions of the variance and$$\frac{\sum _{i=1}^n \left(x(i)-\frac{\sum ... - asked by Remi.b (1 vote) —————————- [Expectation value of standard deviation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153848/expectation-value-of-standard-deviation I was trying to calculate the expectation value of the standard deviation, if I only take two data points into account. My code is the following: n[x_] = PDF[NormalDistribution[μ, σ], x]; σ2[x1_, ... - asked by Glostas (1 vote) ### 22 Tuesday, August 15, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to remove a paclet downloaded from Wolfram Research Server?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153752/how-to-remove-a-paclet-downloaded-from-wolfram-research-server How can I remove a paclet that was automatically downloaded when I used a function for the first time (i.e. NetChain)? I believe the download was faulty, preventing me from using any of the ... - asked by mpourrah (8 votes), answered by Itai Seggev (10 votes) —————————- [Best way to expand vocabulary of Mathematica functions?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153469/best-way-to-expand-vocabulary-of-mathematica-functions I’m enjoying slowly learning Mathematica but noticing one skill I’m lacking is a comprehensive vocabulary of Mathematica functions. 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(* "11.1.1 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (April 18, 2017)" *)

p1 =  ...

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Any idea why NDSolve can easily handle the first of these examples, but not the 2nd? I have a system of ODE’s involving integrals without closed-form solutions, and keep getting the 2nd error message. ...

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I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad.

Is ...

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[Is there an open source implementation of Mathematica-the-language?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4454/is-there-an-open-source-implementation-of-mathematica-the-language

I’ve seen questions before such as ”What is the best open-source equivalent for Mathematica?”, but that specific question (and that line of inquiry in general) cares more about the computer algebra ...

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I am trying to get the frequency spectrum of a periodic data. Since the data set is short, the outcome of the frequency peaks are not sharp enough, which prevents me for further analysis. I know the ...

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[Plotting InterpolationFunction over Quantities] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153458/plotting-interpolationfunction-over-quantities

What’s the proper syntax to plot Interpolation functions defined over Quantities?

points = {{0, 0}, {1, 1}, {2, 3}, {3, 4}, {4, 3}, {5, 0}};

Change domain to Quantities:

points2 = points //  ...

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[Fastest form of a function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153602/fastest-form-of-a-function

I’m trying to find the fastest form for a function. I have a few approaches with test results.The function I’m working with is the 3rd derivative of the incomplete beta function with respect to its ...

- asked by FalafelPita (1 vote)

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[Why can’t I inject expressions in Compile using (only) With] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153064/why-cant-i-inject-expressions-in-compile-using-only-with

Generally speaking, With can be used to inject into arbitrarily held expressions, for example:

With[{args = 2},
Hold @ Hold @ HoldComplete[args]
]
(* Out[1]= Hold[Hold[HoldComplete[2]]] *)
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[Why Mathematica can not factorize polynomials over algebraic fields?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/152949/why-mathematica-can-not-factorize-polynomials-over-algebraic-fields

I noticed that a factorization over algebraic fields is useless in Mathematica. Here is the example over the field containing I*Sqrt[3]:

Pol=4 (3 I Sqrt[3] (-12 + 6 x - 4 x^2 + x^3) y^3 z +
9 (12 -  ...

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[RegionMeasure is wrong for simple 1D Path] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153323/regionmeasure-is-wrong-for-simple-1d-path

Bug introduced in 11.1

Take the simple path defined by a line through a set of points

pts = {{0, 0}, {0, 1.5}, {0.05, 1.5}, {0.05, 0.5}, {0.1, 0.5}, {0.1,  1.5},
{0.15, 1.5}, {0.15, 0.5}, {0.2,  ...

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[Why am I seeing what looks like a violation of operator precedence?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153258/why-am-i-seeing-what-looks-like-a-violation-of-operator-precedence

Why is it that when I evaluate

2*2.848529281693615+3*-0.5155083247776808

I get

(* -2.93688 *)

which is wrong.

2*2.848529281693615 + (3*-0.5155083247776808)
(* 4.15053 *)

Any help would be ...

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[Need a gentle introduction to stylesheet writing] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/153102/need-a-gentle-introduction-to-stylesheet-writing

I have searched Mathematica.SE for stylesheet and found a lot of useful information on specific issues but no general introduction. There were 746 hits, and it is very time consuming for anyone to ...

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[Unexpected behavior when directly assigning to DownValues] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/152999/unexpected-behavior-when-directly-assigning-to-downvalues

I’m encountering some unexpected behavior when assigning to DownValues. When I assign two definitions for test[1] as below, Mathematica stores both definitions:

DownValues[test] =  ...

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[Except @ OptionsPattern[] affects OptionValue] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/152984/except-optionspattern-affects-optionvalue

The background

This example works as expected, small function with a special case rule:

foo // ClearAll
foo // Options = {"bar" -&gt; 1};

foo[x_, y : Except[_Rule], patt : OptionsPattern[]
...

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Bug caused by paclet update and fixed by paclet update.

I updated to Windows 10 and have been running Mathematica fine on it for over a month. For some reason, it has just stopped working. I don’t ...

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[Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[θ], r Sin[θ], r^2}, {r, 0,  ...

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I need to define an operator that does as follow for any function .

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What should I use instead? - asked by Szabolcs (52 votes), answered by Szabolcs (62 votes) —————————- [Image processing: Floor plan - detecting rooms’ borders (area) and room names’ texts] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/19546/image-processing-floor-plan-detecting-rooms-borders-area-and-room-names-t Here is a simple building floor plan. I would like to derive the rooms as (rectangular) components and the names of the rooms. This is very common representation of building floor plans. The ... - asked by s.s.o (52 votes), answered by nikie (52 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Unexpected Behavior of Parametric Sensitivity in ParametricNDSolveValue] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151294/unexpected-behavior-of-parametric-sensitivity-in-parametricndsolvevalue While exploring alternative methods of solving 33538, I encountered difficulties with the parametric sensitivity capability of ParametricNDSolveValue. (Useful background on parametric sensitivity is ... - asked by bbgodfrey (2 votes) —————————- [FindShortestTour suddenly runs far slower for large numbers of points] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151513/findshortesttour-suddenly-runs-far-slower-for-large-numbers-of-points I was doing a benchmark of FindShortestTour and I noticed something really weird. Around 10000 points, FindShortestTour suddenly takes 6 times as long without explanation: times = Table[ pts = ... - asked by Jorge Perez (2 votes) —————————- [Manual CellGroups: problem with closing nested CellGroupData] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151336/manual-cellgroups-problem-with-closing-nested-cellgroupdata Background CellGroupData second argument allows to specify which cells are visible. I faced problems though. This example works well, the second group is not visible: Notebook[{ Cell @ ... - asked by Kuba (1 vote) ### 27 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Replace elements that do not match a pattern] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149736/replace-elements-that-do-not-match-a-pattern I have the following matrix mat={{0,a,b},{c,0,d},{0,0,e}} I would like to replace the zero elements of it with 1 and the remaining with zero. The first step would be mat/.{0-&gt;1} However I ... - asked by Galuoises (12 votes), answered by eldo (7 votes) —————————- [Image segmentation by pixel value] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149966/image-segmentation-by-pixel-value I’m looking for a way to segment a grayscale image (or a 2D array) by its pixel values. We look at two neighboring pixels, if their values are close within a certain threshold, then we say they are ... - asked by xslittlegrass (11 votes), answered by nikie (11 votes) —————————- [Can trees be made into graphs?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151155/can-trees-be-made-into-graphs When one has the output of a function like TreeForm, for instance: Can this be turned into a Graph object? I would like to be able to apply functions like VertexList, VertexDegree, AdjacencyList, ... - asked by M. Brandt (8 votes), answered by C. E. (5 votes) —————————- [Layout tips to keep UI responsive] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149835/layout-tips-to-keep-ui-responsive Bug introduced in V10.4 or earlier and persisting through V11.1.1 CASE:3914402 Here is an example of a problem I have. Gutted version of something much bigger: handler2 = Framed[#, ... - asked by Kuba (8 votes), answered by Kuba (1 vote) —————————- [How to use LATEXin Mathematica text] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151102/how-to-use-latex-in-mathematica-text I would like to formulate a question in a notebook for my students using LATEX(or MathML) to typeset functions and matrices. I specifically want a language other than Mathematica as students ... - asked by user49947 (7 votes), answered by Nasser (6 votes) —————————- [getting zero for special positions in a matrix] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149767/getting-zero-for-special-positions-in-a-matrix There are a list list={{1, 2, 3, 2, 3}, {3, 1, 1, 2, 3}, {3, 2, 1, 3, 2}, {1, 2, 1, 1, 1}}; I wish to have all elements be zero except the first and the fourth in each row: desired: list={{1, 0, ... - asked by Irreversible (7 votes), answered by tomd (7 votes) —————————- [To Work with Barchart or DiscretePlot?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149960/to-work-with-barchart-or-discreteplot I would like to create a graph similar to this below using some slightly dotted bar style like the one shown in the figure ... And I’m trying to open a space between bars 6 and 8, but I’m failing. ... - asked by LCarvalho (7 votes), answered by kglr (6 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to manipulate 2D plots?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/7142/how-to-manipulate-2d-plots When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ... - asked by István Zachar (117 votes), answered by István Zachar (134 votes) —————————- [Learn Mathematica (Wolfram) Language in one day] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138366/learn-mathematica-wolfram-language-in-one-day Currently I am trying to learn Python. Searching for relevant material I came across X in Y minutes and books with titles such as Learn Python in one day, in 24 hours, etc. Similar material exists ... - asked by dimitris (25 votes), answered by masterxilo (9 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Sorting a list of rules] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149862/sorting-a-list-of-rules When we give several definitions for a function f, the DownValues of f are automatically sorted with respect to the domain defined by the pattern: f[x_]:=2; f[x_?Positive] := 3; f[1]=4; ... - asked by Fred Simons (3 votes) —————————- [Plotting orbits of trajectories of bodies sharing the earth’s orbit in coordinates centered at the barycenter of the solar system] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151069/plotting-orbits-of-trajectories-of-bodies-sharing-the-earths-orbit-in-coordinat I am attempting to try and plot the trajectories of a trio of satellites that are orbiting with the earth-moon system around the solar system’s barycenter. Originally, I had the satellites in orbit ... - asked by SSoltero (1 vote) —————————- [Mathematica not releasing RAM] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/151127/mathematica-not-releasing-ram The following code is supposed to sequentially read data from a large CSV file and put it row by row into an SQL server. Although I thought RAM consumption should be constant the system keeps asking ... - asked by user13892 (2 votes) ### 28 Tuesday, July 4, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Is there a simple and fast way to delete dependent lines of a matrix] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149281/is-there-a-simple-and-fast-way-to-delete-dependent-lines-of-a-matrix I am building a matrix, but some of the lines are dependant. I would like to only keep independant lines (so erase all lines that depend from another). I could compute the nullspace of the transpose ... - asked by StarBucK (10 votes), answered by george2079 (10 votes) —————————- [Vertex coloring for bi-connected graphs] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149247/vertex-coloring-for-bi-connected-graphs In graph theory, a bi-connected component is a maximal bi-connected subgraph of a graph –i.e., a connected subgraph that would remain connected if any one of its vertexes were to be removed. An ... - asked by David G. Stork (10 votes), answered by kglr (9 votes) —————————- [Compile and uncompilable function bug?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149343/compile-and-uncompilable-function-bug I think I found a bug, but I still have MMA version 11.0.1 installed. Can somebody please check if this persists in the latest version? When I compile this function: cf = Compile[{{n, _Integer}}, ... - asked by JEM_Mosig (10 votes), answered by Michael E2 (12 votes) —————————- [How to make the result of InputForm balance the bracket] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149558/how-to-make-the-result-of-inputform-balance-the-bracket I always use InputForm to check the result object,such as Dataset or Graphics or other objects.But if you are in the result of InputForm,you cannot use the Front-End function of balance the bracket. ... - asked by yode (9 votes), answered by Carl Woll (6 votes) —————————- [KeyValuePattern in matching and replacement in nested associations] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149402/keyvaluepattern-in-matching-and-replacement-in-nested-associations This case revealed I am missing something in pattern matching and evaluation in case of match, or I can’t grasp it due to the busy week I have. Either way, I find this problem interesting for wider ... - asked by Kuba (9 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (5 votes) —————————- [Align two images with respect to sperm head] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149280/align-two-images-with-respect-to-sperm-head My biologist friend has to align sperm images according to their heads. He usually does that manually by rotating each image. The problem is that there are so many images and it takes a lot of time. ... - asked by Anjan Kumar (9 votes), answered by nikie (7 votes) —————————- [A more convenient Fourier series] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149468/a-more-convenient-fourier-series Personally, I feel the design of FourierSeries/FourierSinSeries/FourierCosSeries/FourierTrigSeries not convenient enough because: They can’t give general formula of series as output, one must set a ... - asked by xzczd (7 votes), answered by xzczd (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Why should I avoid the For loop in Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134609/why-should-i-avoid-the-for-loop-in-mathematica Some people advise against the use of For loops in Mathematica. Why? Should I heed this advice? What is wrong with For? What should I use instead? - asked by Szabolcs (51 votes), answered by Szabolcs (61 votes) —————————- [My Girlfriend is going to prison...Save her with Math] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135937/my-girlfriend-is-going-to-prison-save-her-with-math Salacious title, but true story. dmethyl1 = { {0, 0}, {.25, 1}, {.5, 7}, {1, 26}, {1.5, 40}, {2, 45}, {2.5, 45}, {3, 44}, {3.5, 44}, {4, ... - asked by Prisoners Dilema (39 votes), answered by bobthechemist (24 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Serious regression in Integrate in 11.1.1? Division by zero generated] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149495/serious-regression-in-integrate-in-11-1-1-division-by-zero-generated What is going on here? In version 11.1.1 on windows 7 Using Version 11.0.1 also on windows 7 Source code ClearAll[x, n, c, a ,b] Integrate[(a + b*(c*x^n)^(2/n))^3, x] Why does ... - asked by Nasser (7 votes) —————————- [Hiding inputs with specific function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149298/hiding-inputs-with-specific-function I believe this question could be a duplication, but I did some searches with the term ”hide the input cell”, but none answered me. Only inputs with this function. I have several input cells using the ... - asked by LCarvalho (3 votes) —————————- [Gravitational Lensing Simulation, Coordinate and Rendering Issues] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149447/gravitational-lensing-simulation-coordinate-and-rendering-issues I am trying to replicate this gravitational simulation online application called LensToy using Mathematica instead. I have two issues. First, unlike LensToy, my rendering is extremely slow and drives ... - asked by mpourrah (2 votes) ### 29 Tuesday, June 27, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Display 10^n as power] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148794/display-10n-as-power How can I tell MMA to display input of the form 10^n as and not e.g. as 1000 for or the rational for . This would help to keep tables compact when some ... - asked by Casimir (13 votes), answered by eldo (10 votes) —————————- [How to remove unknown zero-width character from string?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148899/how-to-remove-unknown-zero-width-character-from-string I have text that contains a zero-width character that I am not able to remove. A minimum example is in str below where the character is at the start of the text. str = "​4-6"; res = ToExpression /@ ... - asked by Edmund (12 votes), answered by Carl Woll (10 votes) —————————- [Series sum approximation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149090/series-sum-approximation Since there is no closed formula, as far as I know, to find the sum of I used //N to find an approximation and Mathematica gave me ... - asked by Raffaele (11 votes), answered by TeM (18 votes) —————————- [How to extract first 9 rows from every block of 22 rows?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149026/how-to-extract-first-9-rows-from-every-block-of-22-rows I’m working with a list of lists (a large table). How would I extract the first 9 rows from every 22 rows of this list? Essentially, I’d like to drop rows 10 to 22, and then 32 to 44, and so on, ... - asked by musicmaker (11 votes), answered by C. E. (11 votes) —————————- [Confusion about HoldFirst attribute of Set] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148956/confusion-about-holdfirst-attribute-of-set Set has the attribute HoldFirst. Expectedly the following does not work, i.e. it does not assign the OwnValue of 3 to x: In[1]:= {x, y}[[1]] = 3 During evaluation of In[1]:= Set::setps: {x,y} in the ... - asked by kalix (8 votes), answered by Kuba (10 votes) —————————- [What algorithm is Mathematica using to find the smallest eigenvalue so quickly?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148759/what-algorithm-is-mathematica-using-to-find-the-smallest-eigenvalue-so-quickly My question is what kind of black magic is Mathematica doing to obtain the correct answer so quickly compared to other programming languages? Details: I’ve written a Mathematica notebook to find the ... - asked by Daniel Walsh (8 votes) —————————- [Simplify expression with Sqrt] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149186/simplify-expression-with-sqrt Hi folks I have a simple Simplify[] question the following expression simplifies nice: Sqrt[4 (a + b) - 4 c] // Simplify 2 Sqrt[a + b - c] the next one refuses Sqrt[4 (a + b) - 4 (c + d)] // ... - asked by Robert Nowak (6 votes), answered by Shadowray (5 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29203/calculate-the-2d-fourier-transform-of-an-image I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0. I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase spectrum, as well as reconstruct the ... - asked by user8727 (5 votes), answered by Nasser (27 votes) —————————- [Entering numbers in Scientific Notation?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/36792/entering-numbers-in-scientific-notation I need to play with a lot of powers such as 10^-3. 1E-3 does not work for it. Is there any short form for it? - asked by hhh (32 votes), answered by Rahul (43 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Cross-section of graph] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148902/cross-section-of-graph I am trying to use the following code to plot the cross-section of the graph z=x^2+y^2 and x=t. I use Manipulate to vary t. h = z - x^2 - y^2; g = x; Manipulate[ Show[ ContourPlot3D[{h == 0, g == ... - asked by henryforever14 (1 vote) —————————- [How to embed Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha results in a website] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/149063/how-to-embed-mathematica-or-wolfram-alpha-results-in-a-website Is it possible to dynamically embed responses into a blog post? So the user would see: There are 390900 plant species in the world. With pseudo code: There are #{worlfram(number of plant species)} ... - asked by Mr. Demetrius Michael (1 vote) —————————- [Package MathWorld] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148837/package-mathworld I’m looking for MathWorld packages, but I can not find anywhere. I found an question that came very close but did not help me. I got lost on the site and did not find anything. I need to use the ... - asked by LCarvalho (4 votes) ### 30 Tuesday, June 20, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Good references for parallel programming in Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148489/good-references-for-parallel-programming-in-mathematica There are plenty of good references for all sorts of Mathematica programming: This forum is a great example for specific questions/”getting things done”. Books like those by R.Maeder (esp. the now ... - asked by Gaius (17 votes) —————————- [Dot not well-defined: are there better examples?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148465/dot-not-well-defined-are-there-better-examples Dot is not ”well-defined” in Mathematica - we cannot simultaneously have it being associative and working with 1D and 2D arrays. For example, the order we substitute for variables should not change ... - asked by mikado (10 votes), answered by Shadowray (9 votes) —————————- [Internal‘Bag memory usage] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148594/internalbag-memory-usage 1. How does Internal‘Bag handle memory inside a compiled function? (examples below) 2. Is there a way to explicitly free up memory used by Internal‘Bag without exiting the function? Preface: The ... - asked by aardvark2012 (9 votes) —————————- [Preventing an unwanted vertical line from appearing my plot] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148502/preventing-an-unwanted-vertical-line-from-appearing-my-plot How can I eliminate (remove) the unwanted vertical line x = 1 when I make the plot shown below. p3 = Plot[ {0.5/(-0.1 x + 0.1), 0.04/(-0.004 x + 0.004), 1.359/(-0.08 x + 0.08), ... - asked by Irreversible (9 votes), answered by m_goldberg (1 vote) —————————- [Integer to Alpha Representation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148446/integer-to-alpha-representation I wanted a nice way to convert natural numbers to alphabetic representations like: 1-&gt;"A", 2-&gt;"B", ... 26-&gt;"Z", 27-&gt;"AA, ... 26*2-&gt;"AZ", 26*2+1-&gt;"BA", ... And I knew this was ... - asked by b3m2a1 (8 votes), answered by Carl Woll (6 votes) —————————- [How to display numbers as multiples of a square root] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148551/how-to-display-numbers-as-multiples-of-a-square-root The extension field can be represented by a - dimensional vector space over with basis . I made a matrix ... - asked by nilo de roock (8 votes), answered by Carl Woll (7 votes) —————————- [Visually permute rows of a matrix via mouse dragging] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148448/visually-permute-rows-of-a-matrix-via-mouse-dragging I’m looking for a way to permute the rows of a matrix visually via mouse dragging, for example by clicking and dragging on a row in the MatrixPlot corresponding to the matrix. What would be the best ... - asked by glS (8 votes), answered by glS (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66273/how-to-tell-mathematica-that-certain-variables-are-real-imaginary-integer-value I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations (expectation values etc.) by running them through Mathematica. When I say, for example, u[x_] := Sqrt[2/L] * Sin[Pi * n * x / L] and then ... - asked by Matthew Brunetti (17 votes), answered by SquareOne (11 votes) —————————- [Entering numbers in Scientific Notation?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/36792/entering-numbers-in-scientific-notation I need to play with a lot of powers such as 10^-3. 1E-3 does not work for it. Is there any short form for it? - asked by hhh (32 votes), answered by Rahul (43 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Which method should I use for a numerical triple Integration?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148629/which-method-should-i-use-for-a-numerical-triple-integration Which method should I use for this numerical integration? Does it converge? My constants are: P = 10.5; m = 48.2; c = 1; α = 0.01; V0 = 10; EE = 2.3; II = 1.; k = 68.9*10^3; My Integration is ... - asked by Edmond Muho (2 votes) —————————- [possible memory problem with WatershedComponents] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148318/possible-memory-problem-with-watershedcomponents This could be regarded as a follow-up question to a previous post of mine (link). When I use the WatershedComponents function on a large image (about 6000 x 10000 pixels) Mathematica comes up with an ... - asked by Kardashev3 (4 votes) —————————- [Swedish characters in Databin] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148550/swedish-characters-in-databin I want to store strings with Swedish characters like å, ä and ö in a Databin, but get the following result: bin = CreateDatabin[]; DatabinUpload[bin, {"a", "ä"}]; Values[bin] {a,"a""} Does anyone ... - asked by Sverker (5 votes) ### 31 Tuesday, June 13, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Same region, different meshes] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148210/same-region-different-meshes I’m playing around with ToElementMesh and I noticed the following behaviour that puzzles me. Consider the two regions &lt;&lt; NDSolveFEM Ω1 = Polygon[{{-1/2, -1}, {-1/2, 1}, {1/2, 1}, {1/2, ... - asked by Massimo Ortolano (11 votes), answered by user21 (9 votes) —————————- [Rearrange the list in a specific way] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147876/rearrange-the-list-in-a-specific-way Suppose I have a list like {"e", "c", "a", "d", "b"} and list of rules {1 -&gt; 5, 2 -&gt; 3, 3 -&gt; 1, 4 -&gt; 4, 5 -&gt; 2}. The second list says that for example element on position 1 shoud be on ... - asked by David Baghdasaryan (11 votes), answered by Shadowray (16 votes) —————————- [Self contained APIFunction. Collecting definitions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148207/self-contained-apifunction-collecting-definitions Cross posted on community.wolfram.com Background After failed attempt (1) to create a complex API, by nicely linking my APIFunction to a cloud based package, I decided to go with the flow and trust ... - asked by Kuba (10 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (4 votes) —————————- [Substitute some 1s with 0s in random list] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148134/substitute-some-1s-with-0s-in-random-list How is it better to substitute list of random combination of 1 and 0 (binary image) so that only first (or central) instance of 1 left in each group. list = 0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0 should be ... - asked by io_tuta (9 votes), answered by Carl Woll (10 votes) —————————- [Pattern matching Association in rules] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148074/pattern-matching-association-in-rules I would appreciate an explanation of how Associations behave in pattern matching, especially when matching rules, and using HoldPattern. Consider the following: assocRuleList = {&lt;||&gt; :&gt; ... - asked by ZeitPolizei (9 votes), answered by WReach (7 votes) —————————- [How to combine Neural Network and Audio like Classify?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148158/how-to-combine-neural-network-and-audio-like-classify I want to combine Audio object and Neural Network ,first thing I remember is Classify windInstrument = ExampleData[{"Sound", #}] &amp; /@ {"AltoFlute", "AltoSaxophone", "BassClarinet", "BassFlute", ... - asked by partida (8 votes) —————————- [ROT13 and upside-down text (flip text)] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147829/rot13-and-upside-down-text-flip-text How can we transform text in order to achieve ROT13 and flip text using Wolfram Mathematica? 1. ROT13 2. Flip text - asked by rhermans (8 votes), answered by rhermans (11 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Mathematica 10.0.x freezes in Initializing kernels] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/92931/mathematica-10-0-x-freezes-in-initializing-kernels Bug caused by paclet update and fixed by paclet update. I updated to Windows 10 and have been running Mathematica fine on it for over a month. For some reason, it has just stopped working. I don’t ... - asked by mitcheljh (73 votes), answered by ilian (94 votes) —————————- [1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/627/1-plot-2-scale-axis I would like to plot those two datasets on top of each other. But they have very different range on the axis. How can I have two different axis? I found the following on the help menu but quite ... - asked by 500 (115 votes), answered by ArgentoSapiens (110 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to improve the creation of tables of code and comments] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148160/how-to-improve-the-creation-of-tables-of-code-and-comments While writing a response to a certain MSE question I made a function that tabulates code and comments. (See the definition below.) Here is an example: code = " FoldList[(* reduction function *) ... - asked by Anton Antonov (5 votes) —————————- [Export as HTML: Image of text is squished] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147819/export-as-html-image-of-text-is-squished When exporting a notebook to HTML, the notebook’s cells render as images, but the text is often squished. For example, this notebook: ... renders as If I manually line-break the code, the ... - asked by ConvexMartian (3 votes) —————————- [How to implement the same function use *Layer function?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148181/how-to-implement-the-same-function-use-layer-function Reading YOLO method to detect object in the image(paper),I want to train this tiny-VOLO v1 on Mathematica,but the special loss function is very difficult to write. Total loss is: For brief,I use ... - asked by partida (5 votes) ### 32 Tuesday, June 6, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [List of symbols without built-in meaning] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147328/list-of-symbols-without-built-in-meaning Is there a list of all symbols with special display forms but no built-in meaning? That is, operators that are described in the tutorial Operators without Built-in Meanings? - asked by Carl Woll (17 votes), answered by Carl Woll (17 votes) —————————- [Does Mathematica support deep links?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147374/does-mathematica-support-deep-links So GitHub sent me on quite the journey, after it opened its desktop app from my browser. Copying the link I found something looking like: "github-mac://...". I spent the next like 15 minutes trying ... - asked by b3m2a1 (12 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (12 votes) —————————- [How and why to use monadic programming in Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147679/how-and-why-to-use-monadic-programming-in-mathematica This is a methodological question with two parts: How to use monadic programming in Mathematica? and Why use monadic programming in Mathematica? In my opinion the questions are inter-related – ... - asked by Anton Antonov (10 votes) —————————- [Google Drive API connection: (or how can I build a service connection to an OAuth2 service?)] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147451/google-drive-api-connection-or-how-can-i-build-a-service-connection-to-an-oaut From here I know how to build a a basic service connection. And that’s fine in simple authentication cases but how do I do this for OAuth services? Even more specifically, how can I do this for ... - asked by b3m2a1 (10 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (9 votes) —————————- [Performance of Nest vs. Do] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147545/performance-of-nest-vs-do When I am iterating the logistic function using a pure function, comparing Do and Nest: x = 0.1; Do[x = 3 x (1 - x), 300] // RepeatedTiming Nest[3 # (1 - #) &amp;, .1, 300] // RepeatedTiming - asked by Stitch (9 votes), answered by Karsten 7. (9 votes) —————————- [Huge arrows in 3D graphics] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147586/huge-arrows-in-3d-graphics Hi. Consider the following code: f1 = Plot3D[-Exp[-x^2-y^2],{x,-5,5},{y,-5,5},PlotRange-&gt;All] f2 = Graphics3D[Table[{Arrowheads[.01],Arrow[{{2Cos[i],2Sin[i],0},{2.5Cos[i], ... - asked by AccidentalFourierTransform (9 votes), answered by Jens (9 votes) —————————- [Clean package update for API/FormFunctions on Wolfram Cloud] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147330/clean-package-update-for-api-formfunctions-on-wolfram-cloud Cross posted on community.wolfram.com (new comments) TLDR There is a pool of kernels/sessions available for each user, you don’t have control over the pool only over specific kernel you currently ... - asked by Kuba (7 votes), answered by b3m2a1 (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [My Girlfriend is going to prison...Save her with Math] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135937/my-girlfriend-is-going-to-prison-save-her-with-math Salacious title, but true story. dmethyl1 = { {0, 0}, {.25, 1}, {.5, 7}, {1, 26}, {1.5, 40}, {2, 45}, {2.5, 45}, {3, 44}, {3.5, 44}, {4, ... - asked by Prisoners Dilema (37 votes), answered by bobthechemist (24 votes) —————————- [Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4025/creating-legends-for-plots-with-multiple-lines So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g. data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .} If I then do ListLinePlot[Table[{#1,Log[b,#2]}&amp;@@@data, {b,1,10,2}]] I have no way to generate a legend ... - asked by Eiyrioü von Kauyf (60 votes), answered by Jens (89 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [URLFetch parameters interfere with POST] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147526/urlfetch-parameters-interfere-with-post (orig: URLFetch Multipart POST fails to post Body?) Update 2: So after much weeping and gnashing of teeth our Lord and Savior Mathematica deemed me worthy of figuring out (some of) what the hell was ... - asked by b3m2a1 (1 vote) —————————- [What is the best method for solving under a 5-minute computation time?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147520/what-is-the-best-method-for-solving-da-b-r-t-under-a-5-minute-computation-ti Consider set , a subset of rational numbers, where is a function. I want to compute ... - asked by Arbuja (1 vote) —————————- [Loop construction with multiple expressions for solving differential equation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147523/loop-construction-with-multiple-expressions-for-solving-differential-equation I want to solve the following ODE. with the following conditions and Regardless of the ... - asked by Konstantinos (2 votes) ### 33 Tuesday, May 30, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Estimate the ”Blurry” distribution of an image] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146989/estimate-the-blurry-distribution-of-an-image I’m trying to analyze an image obtained by scanning electron microscope(SEM) where different parts of the same image has has different blurring radius. My goal is to determine how blurry different ... - asked by Wjx (17 votes), answered by Shadowray (20 votes) —————————- [Nest list with two functions] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147055/nest-list-with-two-functions Is it possible to use the NestList command with two functions, one at every even step and apply the other at every odd step. If this is possible could someone share an example ? - asked by David (12 votes), answered by Shadowray (14 votes) —————————- [Exporting structured data to HDF5] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146859/exporting-structured-data-to-hdf5 Sadly the documentation is lacking any useful examples on how to Export more complex data in HDF5. There is only Export["file.h5",{expr1,...},{"Datasets", {"dataset1",...}}] creates an HDF5 file, ... - asked by Sascha (10 votes), answered by Sascha (5 votes) —————————- [Using Mathematica to create an H-Tree] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146797/using-mathematica-to-create-an-h-tree Can folks show me several methods I can use to draw the following fractal H-Tree? I did use Free-Form input, as: = h-fractal And got this image, which is three iterations, but no idea how it was ... - asked by David (10 votes), answered by J. M. (10 votes) —————————- [Combining # & pure functions with post-fix notation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/147132/combining-pure-functions-with-post-fix-notation I can’t find the link anymore but there was a talk at a Wolfram conference (referencing v7 I think) where the authors highlight that stringing together functions like this: Range[100] // ... - asked by Joe (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (7 votes) —————————- [Hosting a curated data function / server in Google Drive] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146832/hosting-a-curated-data-function-server-in-google-drive I want to make a curated data function, but I have no good place to store the paclets. Per the pricing page I only get: And that’s really not enough to host all of my data plus give me room to do ... - asked by MB1965 (9 votes), answered by MB1965 (8 votes) —————————- [Interpolate the noisy data] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146688/interpolate-the-noisy-data I have some noisy data data = Uncompress[FromCharacterCode[ Flatten[ImageData[Import["http://i.stack.imgur.com/RZcpj.png"],"Byte"]]]] Plot looks like this There is noise in certain region, ... - asked by Saesun Kim (9 votes), answered by bill s (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Creating Mathematica packages] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29324/creating-mathematica-packages I’m building a package to help me write packages and their documentation. In this post I explained how to make a package and its documentation. In the answer I provided I describe how to build a very ... - asked by jmlopez (89 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (114 votes) —————————- [How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/8841/how-can-i-plot-the-direction-field-for-a-differential-equation I’d like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it. I’m a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I’m hoping that someone can ... - asked by Matt Groff (20 votes), answered by Peter Breitfeld (17 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to replace all instances of a number throughout my entire cell] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146971/how-to-replace-all-instances-of-a-number-throughout-my-entire-cell I have a cell where for several instances throughout I label certain functions, strings, and ranges using a similar pattern so as to follow through with integration calculations, list forming, and ... - asked by yalev (3 votes) —————————- [Error occurred while connecting to remote kernel.Can’t use dynamic] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146823/error-occurred-while-connecting-to-remote-kernel-cant-use-dynamic When Open Mathematica using remote kernel,it throws LinkConnect error. But normal command can evaluate.Like Range@5,Version... But Can't use dynamic.It throws An unknown box name. So if I want to ... - asked by partida (4 votes) —————————- [Partition an Image automatically Based on Borders] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146837/partition-an-image-automatically-based-on-borders I would like to be able to train a model to recognize the borders in a newspaper image and then partition those into separate Images. Images similar to this would be the input Image And then ... - asked by Avadhut Bhosarekar (2 votes) ### 34 Tuesday, May 23, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [PerformanceGoal option ignored in V11.1] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146214/performancegoal-option-ignored-in-v11-1 Bug introduced in 11.1 [CASE:3892079] was created [...] I have reproduced this problem with PerformanceGoal in version 11.1 and reported the issue to our developers [...] Take this code: ... - asked by Kuba (14 votes), answered by Kuba (15 votes) —————————- [Can I build my own curated data function?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146220/can-i-build-my-own-curated-data-function I love the huge curated datasets, but they don’t cover everything. I have my own huge dataset which is too much to distribute as an EntityStore so is there a way to build my own analog of, say, ... - asked by MB1965 (13 votes), answered by MB1965 (16 votes) —————————- [Support for low-complexity (compressible) lists] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146244/support-for-low-complexity-compressible-lists By ”low-complexity list” I mean a list like the following: lcl = {17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11} It contains 20 elements, but only 3 ... - asked by kjo (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (6 votes) —————————- [Automating documentation generation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146670/automating-documentation-generation Outside of kernel symbols Mathematica provides access to lots of usage info, e.g. DownValues, Options, Messages, etc. Most languages, if given this sort of info, would be able to provide an automatic ... - asked by MB1965 (9 votes), answered by MB1965 (10 votes) —————————- [Trace of -1 expression] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146506/trace-of-1-expression I’m trying to understand Trace. Usually it doesn’t repeat but it adds -1,-1 for his simple expression after having a correct result. -{1}//Trace {-1, {-1}, {-1, -1}, {-1}} Why -{1}//Trace is ... - asked by io_tuta (9 votes), answered by Michael E2 (7 votes) —————————- [How to import a Tensorflow model?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146216/how-to-import-a-tensorflow-model I’ve trained a network in Tensorflow and have the checkpoint files, I’d like to if anyone has written a parser or importer to pull the evaluation graph and/or weights into Mathematica? - asked by user5601 (9 votes) —————————- [intersection between two 2D arrays with labeled data is slow] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146558/intersection-between-two-2d-arrays-with-labeled-data-is-slow Here is how to Generate data the function is below with two images to generate data img1 img2 segmentImage[binarizedMask_?ImageQ] := Module[{seg, areas, indexMaxarea, maxArea}, seg = ... - asked by Ali Hashmi (8 votes), answered by Carl Woll (6 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[θ], r Sin[θ], r^2}, {r, 0, ... - asked by Matthew Leingang (92 votes), answered by Heike (80 votes) —————————- [Generating a Sierpinski carpet] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/22052/generating-a-sierpinski-carpet I am trying to draw a Sierpinski_carpet. I have code that works, but I think there is a more elegant way to do than my way. Maybe I couls use Tuples or Permutations or some similar function to ... - asked by chyaong (46 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (75 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Exporting graphics with VertexColors problem] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146306/exporting-graphics-with-vertexcolors-problem I’ve generated a graphics which exhibit gradient color in rectangle and export it as: SetDirectory[NotebookDirectory[]]; Export["./test.pdf", Graphics[{Polygon[{{-4, 5/3}, {-4, 0}, {4, 0}, {4, ... - asked by RoderickLee (3 votes) —————————- [How to imitate the opacity plot in EditColorFunction] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146623/how-to-imitate-the-opacity-plot-in-editcolorfunction I wish to imitate the opacity plot as shown below: Here is ... - asked by Majis (3 votes) —————————- [Possible bug in Export with CharacterEncoding -¿ ”PrintableASCII”] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146294/possible-bug-in-export-with-characterencoding-printableascii In the Documentation we read (emphasis is mine): By default, the Wolfram System uses the character encoding ”PrintableASCII” when saving notebooks and packages. This means that when special ... - asked by Alexey Popkov (4 votes) ### 35 Tuesday, May 16, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Mathematica stuck in ”running” for every calculation I attempt, kernel error] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146005/mathematica-stuck-in-running-for-every-calculation-i-attempt-kernel-error Bug caused by paclet update and fixed by paclet update. I downloaded Mathematica this morning to do an implicit polar plot. I attempt to run the code Manipulate[ ContourPlot[ Evaluate@With[{r = ... - asked by 0celouvskyopoulo7 (26 votes), answered by ilian (16 votes) —————————- [How to split data into clusters based on fitting to function] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146079/how-to-split-data-into-clusters-based-on-fitting-to-function I have data which looks somewhat like this: On the picture, you can see that the data can be described by 2 linear functions - if you manage to split it into 2 groups, each can easily be fitted ... - asked by Arsen Zahray (10 votes), answered by rhermans (11 votes) —————————- [Inserting cones at intersection points two curves] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145874/inserting-cones-at-intersection-points-two-curves I am plotting the null geodesics for a Schwarzschild surface in Schwarzschild coordinates and would light to insert small future light-cones at the points of intersection to emphasize the tipping over ... - asked by Soof_fie (9 votes), answered by rhermans (3 votes) —————————- [How to define a function inside a Compile?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145931/how-to-define-a-function-inside-a-compile I want to compile a variety of commands, including a function. I need to map this function, inside the compilation, and I can’t include the function without facing errors such as ... - asked by user5253864 (9 votes), answered by xzczd (10 votes) —————————- [How to automatically do a computation, Quit[], restart and do a new computation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145852/how-to-automatically-do-a-computation-quit-restart-and-do-a-new-computation Related questions have been asked before (eg Where does a package have to be loaded?, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6152023/quit-kernel-in-mathematica-by-a-command-not-using-evaluation-menu - asked by Gaius (9 votes), answered by Shadowray (6 votes) —————————- [1D transient heat equation problem with controller] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145799/1d-transient-heat-equation-problem-with-controller I would appreciate some help with following issue: I am trying to solve a 1D transient heat equation problem with a control loop in order to compensate a time variable boundary condition at one ... - asked by daklems (9 votes), answered by user21 (6 votes) —————————- [Clarify when to use Style vs Directive vs List] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145856/clarify-when-to-use-style-vs-directive-vs-list I am confused about when to use a simple list of style options, the Directive function or the Style function. As shown below, for simple situations at least, they seem entirely equivalent which ... - asked by Joe (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to manipulate 2D plots?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/7142/how-to-manipulate-2d-plots When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ... - asked by István Zachar (115 votes), answered by István Zachar (131 votes) —————————- [Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18/where-can-i-find-examples-of-good-mathematica-programming-practice I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ... - asked by J. M. (463 votes), answered by faysou (411 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Unexpected behavior of a variable] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145661/unexpected-behavior-of-a-variable I am confused with a strange phenomenon that I observe and do not understand. Look, here is a simple code making a random walk: Clear[list]; list = Accumulate[RandomInteger[{-1, 1}, {10, 2}]] - asked by Alexei Boulbitch (2 votes) —————————- [How can I disable system updates only?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146133/how-can-i-disable-system-updates-only Suppose I’m quite happy with my current Mathematica installation and wish to keep the system in its current form just reliably working. Since there were already at least two cases[1,2] when a lot of ... - asked by Alexey Popkov (7 votes) —————————- [Import/export manipulate state in file] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/146017/import-export-manipulate-state-in-file Is it possible to export the state of Manipulate with big number of parameters in file and then restore the parameters of Manipulate from this file? - asked by Филипп Цветков (3 votes) ### 36 Tuesday, May 2, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Count works differently depending on how an association was created] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144813/count-works-differently-depending-on-how-an-association-was-created Bug introduced in 10.4 and persisting through 11.1.1 I create two associations, that are supposed to be exactly the same. And then I want to count the elements at the second level. And I get ... - asked by Stitch (19 votes), answered by WReach (12 votes) —————————- [Why is Plus so much slower than Total?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145019/why-is-plus-so-much-slower-than-total Why is Plus so much slower than total for summing lists? list = RandomReal[1, 10000000]; AbsoluteTiming[Plus @@ list] AbsoluteTiming[Total[list]] Output: {1.67408, 5.00073*10^6} {0.00570379, ... - asked by Jorge Perez (14 votes), answered by Shadowray (17 votes) —————————- [Delete duplicates from list of lists as if on a necklace] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144696/delete-duplicates-from-list-of-lists-as-if-on-a-necklace Given a list of lists of integers, all of the same length, I want to regard two elements as equivalent if one is the rotated and/or reflected version of another (that is, if the two lists are the same ... - asked by rogerl (13 votes), answered by Shadowray (13 votes) —————————- [Exchanging numpy arrays between Python and Mathematica?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144770/exchanging-numpy-arrays-between-python-and-mathematica I've been using np.savetxt(location, result, delimiter=',') in Python followed by Import[location,"CSV"] in Mathematica. Some of my files are around 1GB, opening seems a bit slow, what else do people ... - asked by Yaroslav Bulatov (12 votes), answered by xslittlegrass (16 votes) —————————- [How to plot planar graphs in a visually pleasing way?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144594/how-to-plot-planar-graphs-in-a-visually-pleasing-way Cross posted to Wolfram Community Mathematica has a layout algorithm to plot planar graphs without edge crossings. This typically produces an ugly triangular layout where some vertices and edges ... - asked by Szabolcs (11 votes), answered by Szabolcs (6 votes) —————————- [Where are my Cloud Credits going?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144859/where-are-my-cloud-credits-going In less than a month I've used 5k cloud credits (half of my quota) and all I did was deploying a bunch of static notebooks with CloudDeploy[CurrentNotebook[],permissions-&gt;Public] (more ... - asked by Yaroslav Bulatov (10 votes) —————————- [Mathematica erroneously says this integral does not converge] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144965/mathematica-erroneously-says-this-integral-does-not-converge Mathematica (as of v. 11.1.0) does not recognize that this special case of Frullani’s integral converges: Integrate[(ArcTan[a*x] - ArcTan[b*x])/x, {x, 0, Infinity}] (* Integrate::idiv: Integral of ... - asked by Pillsy (10 votes), answered by Michael E2 (16 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Generating a Sierpinski carpet] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/22052/generating-a-sierpinski-carpet I am trying to draw a Sierpinski_carpet. I have code that works, but I think there is a more elegant way to do than my way. Maybe I couls use Tuples or Permutations or some similar function to ... - asked by chyaong (46 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (75 votes) —————————- [Alternatives to procedural loops and iterating over lists in Mathematica] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/7924/alternatives-to-procedural-loops-and-iterating-over-lists-in-mathematica While there are some cases where a For loop might be reasonable, it’s a general mantra – one I subscribe to myself – that ”if you are using a For loop in Mathematica, you are probably doing it wrong”. ... - asked by Mr.Wizard (154 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (104 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to get parent key in Query on Association/Dataset?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144995/how-to-get-parent-key-in-query-on-association-dataset Is there a general and terse method to obtain the parent key of the current ”position” in a Query of an Association/Dataset? Say I have the following Association. assoc = &lt;|"A" -&gt; ... - asked by Edmund (3 votes) —————————- [Can anyone help me decipher these few lines? Also, converting this code for a 2x2 matrix input to a 3x3 matrix input?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/145049/can-anyone-help-me-decipher-these-few-lines-also-converting-this-code-for-a-2x Here’s the code. I’m completely new to Mathematica so bear with me. clear[ug]; ug[{{a11_, a12_}, {a21_, a22_}}] := Module[{A, f, b1, b2, y1, y2, U, P1, P2, UG}, A = {{a11, a12}, {a21, a22}}; ... - asked by Pacotacobell (2 votes) —————————- [Bifurcation package like AUTO?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144795/bifurcation-package-like-auto I was wondering if there is any available continuation and bifurcation analysis package for Mathematica. I’m looking for something like AUTO. I’ve seen there is already a Matlab version of the ... - asked by Mirko Aveta (3 votes) ### 37 Tuesday, April 25, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Fast spherical polygon] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144167/fast-spherical-polygon Cross posted on Wolfram Community Question Given a list of points on a sphere and the sphere’s radius, I’d like to plot a spherical polygon with those points as vertices. And this needs to be fast, ... - asked by Kuba (20 votes), answered by halirutan (7 votes) —————————- [How to uncompress strings safely (without any evaluation)?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144171/how-to-uncompress-strings-safely-without-any-evaluation Compressed strings are often used to exchange Mathematica expressions on the Internet. It is, however, not easy to see what such expression will do after decompression. Resulting code can perform ... - asked by Shadowray (15 votes), answered by Itai Seggev (11 votes) —————————- [Sharing data via the cloud] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144130/sharing-data-via-the-cloud I’ve got some stuff that I want to be able distribute to my totally real friends, but I don’t want to have to email them every time I change something. How can I set up sharing via the cloud? - asked by MB1965 (13 votes), answered by MB1965 (13 votes) —————————- [C++ interface to large project] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144047/c-interface-to-large-project We are developing a quite large mathematical software in C++ and would like to have a Mathematica interface. We have our own C++ library and our idea would be, to write a Mathematica wrapper class and ... - asked by Richard (12 votes), answered by Szabolcs (12 votes) —————————- [Why doesn’t FullSimplify return -x working on Abs[x] and x¡0?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144310/why-doesnt-fullsimplify-return-x-working-on-absx-and-x0 I am using Mathematica 11.1, and I stumbled upon this strange response using the Abs function. FullSimplify[Abs[x],x&lt;0] (* Abs[x] *) while, for example FullSimplify[Abs[x],x&gt;0] (* x *) as ... - asked by mickep (10 votes), answered by Simon Woods (13 votes) —————————- [ParallelMap vs Map performance comparsion] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144056/parallelmap-vs-map-performance-comparsion The ParallelMap claims doing map faster than the normal Map, and I checked the demo does as the document describing but, I try my testing, it seems not exactly while ParallelMap excuting with 8 ... - asked by Jerry (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (10 votes) —————————- [How to plot a matrix with 3D style] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144443/how-to-plot-a-matrix-with-3d-style I have a list like SeedRandom[1] MatrixForm[list = RandomInteger[5, {5, 5}]] We can plot it with MatrixPlot directly with 2D style MatrixPlot[list] I hope to plot it with 3D style.This is ... - asked by yode (9 votes), answered by kglr (2 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18/where-can-i-find-examples-of-good-mathematica-programming-practice I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ... - asked by J. M. (463 votes), answered by faysou (410 votes) —————————- [How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/8841/how-can-i-plot-the-direction-field-for-a-differential-equation I’d like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it. I’m a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I’m hoping that someone can ... - asked by Matt Groff (20 votes), answered by Peter Breitfeld (16 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Quality of RegionIntersection[]: How to control?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144270/quality-of-regionintersection-how-to-control This code produces a crude intersection. a = {-1/2, -1/2, -1/2}; b = {1/2, 1/2, 1/2}; R = RegionIntersection[Ball[a, 1], Ball[b, 1]]; Region[R] How can I control the quality so that the ... - asked by Joseph O’Rourke (4 votes) —————————- [Why ReadList ignores NullRecords for Number?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144149/why-readlist-ignores-nullrecords-for-number When thinking on this recent question the immediately obvious solution which came to my mind was to use ReadList with options RecordLists -&gt; True and NullRecords -&gt; True for reading objects of ... - asked by Alexey Popkov (5 votes) —————————- [Why does the domain of an interpolating function not match the corresponding ParametricNDSolve solution range?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/144355/why-does-the-domain-of-an-interpolating-function-not-match-the-corresponding-par Question I had believed - and mostly observed - that when I use ParametricNDSolve the obtained ParametricFunctions given as the solution to some ODE or DAE will be translated into ... - asked by gwr (3 votes) ### 38 Tuesday, April 18, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Crack CAPTCHA using deep learning] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143691/crack-captcha-using-deep-learning Deep convolutional neural networks are very good at computer vision related tasks. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one important branch of computer vision. In fact, the convolution neural ... - asked by xslittlegrass (50 votes), answered by xslittlegrass (52 votes) —————————- [Changes to Series[...] in version 11.1] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143414/changes-to-series-in-version-11-1 I have updated to Mathematica 11.1 and I am shocked to see that the Series-function now works differently: If I enter Series[x^2+x^3, {x,0,0}] it will return x^2+O[x]^3 which is just weird. In ... - asked by Matthias Koenig (16 votes), answered by QuantumDot (3 votes) —————————- [WLNet format incompatible between version 11.0 and 11.1] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143699/wlnet-format-incompatible-between-version-11-0-and-11-1 It seems that there are some behavior changes of neural network layers from version 11.0 to 11.1 that leads to the incompatibility of WLNet format. Consider this example: Network exported in 11.0 ... - asked by xslittlegrass (13 votes), answered by Taliesin Beynon (7 votes) —————————- [DSolve solution depends on ordering of equation] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143726/dsolve-solution-depends-on-ordering-of-equation Bug introduced in 8.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.1.0 or later I am trying to obtain the general solution, to the very easy system of PDEs: - asked by Jeremy Upsal (12 votes), answered by Nasser (8 votes) —————————- [Why the Callout option makes plotting performance poor] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143711/why-the-callout-option-makes-plotting-performance-poor Bug introduced in 11.0 and fixed in 11.1 The Callout option is a new option for plotting, but the performance is very poor, see bellow testing case. num = 1000; list = N@Sin@Range[num]; list2 = ... - asked by Jerry (11 votes) —————————- [Neural machine translation model using deep learning] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143609/neural-machine-translation-model-using-deep-learning In Mathematica version 11.1, SequenceAttentionLayer is introduced to model attentions in the recurrent neural network. It has been shown that attention mechanism can greatly improve the quality of a ... - asked by xslittlegrass (11 votes), answered by Sebastian (8 votes) —————————- [Backslide in NSolve in V11.1?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143824/backslide-in-nsolve-in-v11-1 In V11.1, NSolve[BesselJ[0, x] == 0 &amp;&amp; 0 &lt; x &lt; 20, x] returns no solutions: But in V11.0 (and earlier), it returns all solutions: Is there anyway to get NSolve to solve this ... - asked by Michael E2 (10 votes), answered by Nasser (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to perform a multi-peak fitting?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/how-to-perform-a-multi-peak-fitting I am wondering how to implement the multi-peak detecting and fitting in Mathematica. Following is an example of fitting the data using three peaks (such that the data peak1 + peak2 + peak3). The ... - asked by Everett You (43 votes), answered by Silvia (45 votes) —————————- [How to make an inkblot?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3345/how-to-make-an-inkblot How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.’s Rorschach demonstration): RandomBlot[num_, opts___] := ... - asked by István Zachar (84 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (47 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to create an APIFunction that takes a list with constraints on the list elements?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143709/how-to-create-an-apifunction-that-takes-a-list-with-constraints-on-the-list-elem This APIFunction takes a list as an argument: func = APIFunction[{"x" -&gt; DelimitedSequence["Integer", ","]}, #x^3 &amp;] func["x" -&gt; Range[4]] What I’d like to be able to do is place a ... - asked by Mike Honeychurch (4 votes) —————————- [How to setup FrameTicks for TradingChart] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143705/how-to-setup-frameticks-for-tradingchart I’m trying to setup FrameTicks for TradingChart, but it dosn’t work. (*take data*) data = FinancialData["NASDAQ:AAPL", "OHLCV", {{2017, 1, 1}, {2017, 4, 16}}]; (*def. of ticks*) maxh = ... - asked by Jerry (3 votes) —————————- [What are the software requirements to train neural networks on GPU?] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143795/what-are-the-software-requirements-to-train-neural-networks-on-gpu It seems that GPU training in Mathematica has some additional requirements on the software. For example, when I run this example on a Linux system, I get the following errors trainingData = ... - asked by xslittlegrass (8 votes) ### 39 Tuesday, April 11, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [L-System in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143214/l-system-in-mathematica Here is some Maple code for drawing an L-System: with(Fractals:-LSystem) cons := ["A" = "draw:1", "+" = "turn:-90", "B" = "turn:90"] state, rules := "A", ["A" = "AB+BA+B", "B" = "B+AAB"] ... - asked by vito (21 votes), answered by Szabolcs (21 votes) —————————- [What’s purpose of the new function BinarySerialize?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141885/whats-purpose-of-the-new-function-binaryserialize 11.1 introduced a new function BinarySerialize, but I don’t know what it can do better than the traditional method.Its behavior is very similar to Compress,though I cannot find any advantage of it.It ... - asked by yode (17 votes), answered by Shadowray (14 votes) —————————- [Why does SetPrecision not apply to 0?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143296/why-does-setprecision-not-apply-to-0 Is there a rationale why SetPrecision works on integers except for 0? SetPrecision[1,5] 1.0000 SetPrecision[0,5] 0 - asked by alancalvitti (11 votes), answered by Shadowray (17 votes) —————————- [How to use Mathematica to train a network Using out of core classification?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/142135/how-to-use-mathematica-to-train-a-network-using-out-of-core-classification I see there is doc about how to train a network Using out of core image classification and this question.But the object is only image. I want to use a binary file as data,for example,this. data = ... - asked by partida (10 votes), answered by xslittlegrass (9 votes) —————————- [Combining pure functions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/142072/combining-pure-functions Is there an easy way to combine pure functions into a single pure function? For example, say I have f = #1^2 &amp;; g = #1 - 2 &amp;; and I want to define a new pure function h that is the ... - asked by tparker (10 votes), answered by Kuba (5 votes) —————————- [Question about changes in Documentation Center from version 10 to 11] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143335/question-about-changes-in-documentation-center-from-version-10-to-11 The package Exploring Abstract Algebra with Mathematica works fine in Mathematica 10.4. After installing it in the UserBaseDirectory it neatly shows up under Add-Ons and Packages in the ... - asked by nilo de roock (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (8 votes) —————————- [How can I install packages distributed as .paclet files?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141887/how-can-i-install-packages-distributed-as-paclet-files I downloaded a Mathematica package. It came as a file with the .paclet extension. How can I install or uninstall it? - asked by Szabolcs (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[θ], r Sin[θ], r^2}, {r, 0, ... - asked by Matthew Leingang (90 votes), answered by Heike (77 votes) —————————- [Unit Discovery: Is this some sort of a sick joke?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124745/unit-discovery-is-this-some-sort-of-a-sick-joke Alright, let’s have some fun here. I am essentially following the documentation by Wolfram, just looking at different quantities. N[UnitConvert[Quantity["earth's gravity"]]] 9.80665m/(s)^2 Hmm, ... - asked by Pirx (31 votes), answered by user31159 (30 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to get consistent/predictable results from ‘Alignment‘ specs within a ‘Grid‘ environment?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/142047/how-to-get-consistent-predictable-results-from-alignment-specs-within-a-grid IME, the results of Alignment specifications within a Grid environment are completely unpredictable. I give several examples below illustrating this unpredictability. My questions are: Is there a ... - asked by kjo (4 votes) —————————- [Why Integrate does not work in the first call?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/143199/why-integrate-does-not-work-in-the-first-call Consider an example (calculated in Mathematica 11.0.1.0): In[1]:= Integrate[(Sin[(\[Pi] xc)/(2 Lc)] Sin[(m \[Pi] ... - asked by Shinrei (3 votes) —————————- [Geo data load issues: Texas is missing from GeoRegionValuePlot in v11, but only when mapping US states] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/142079/geo-data-load-issues-texas-is-missing-from-georegionvalueplot-in-v11-but-only UPDATE: this is not a global Mathematica issue, but a data load issue on a local machine. Does anyone know how to clear Geo cache and reload the data? I’ve also noticed on this machine that ... - asked by Gregory Klopper (3 votes) ### 40 Tuesday, April 4, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Object detection and localization using neural network] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141598/object-detection-and-localization-using-neural-network Four important computer vision tasks are classification, localization, object detection and instance segmentation (image taken from cs224d course): These four tasks are all built on top of the deep ... - asked by xslittlegrass (30 votes), answered by xslittlegrass (33 votes) —————————- [Ball Bouncing on Hilly Terrain] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141209/ball-bouncing-on-hilly-terrain There is a maple code for the bouncing ball on the given curve. I tried to make this animation by using Mathematica Why does the following code not work? surf := Sin[x] + (0.2 Cos[4 x + Sin[4 ... - asked by vito (19 votes), answered by Stitch (15 votes) —————————- [Dataset is 20X slow when adding column heads] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141223/dataset-is-20x-slow-when-adding-column-heads I’m trying to use Dataset to explore some large data. I notice that the performance decrease more than 20X by adding heads to the columns. Here is an example: We generate some data with integers ... - asked by xslittlegrass (14 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (3 votes) —————————- [Benchmarking: unexplained switching between high and low performance] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141350/benchmarking-unexplained-switching-between-high-and-low-performance tl;dr I am trying to accurately benchmark some vectorized operations, and compare them between systems. But benchmarking is hard to do well, and I am getting inconsistent results: performance is ... - asked by Szabolcs (13 votes) —————————- [How to visualize attention?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141542/how-to-visualize-attention In the articles about sequence attention we can see images like this: Here we see that while translating from French to English, the network attends sequentially to each input state, but sometimes ... - asked by Alexey Golyshev (12 votes), answered by xslittlegrass (4 votes) —————————- [Can one create a custom front-end for Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141581/can-one-create-a-custom-front-end-for-mathematica I’d like to create my custom front-end for Mathematica. I know there’s a console interface (launched as math), which mostly works great, but it can’t really provide functionality of e.g. interactive ... - asked by Ruslan (9 votes) —————————- [How to clear Integrate internal memory?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141324/how-to-clear-integrate-internal-memory I noticed that when I call Integrate for the first time, on an integral that I know will take longer than the time limit I give it, it will abort for the first time, as expected when wrapped by ... - asked by Nasser (9 votes), answered by J. M. (11 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4025/creating-legends-for-plots-with-multiple-lines So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g. data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .} If I then do ListLinePlot[Table[{#1,Log[b,#2]}&amp;@@@data, {b,1,10,2}]] I have no way to generate a legend ... - asked by Eiyrioü von Kauyf (60 votes), answered by Jens (89 votes) —————————- [Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad. Is ... - asked by Tianxiang Xiong (49 votes), answered by Artes (39 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [GraphicsComplex dynamic colors] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141489/graphicscomplex-dynamic-colors I have a fairly large GraphicsComplex (surface mesh with more than several thousand vertices) and I want to visualize a scalar function that is defined on the vertices. I map the function to vertex ... - asked by Beginner (6 votes) —————————- [how to efficiently generate all directed graphs with 6 vertices] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141681/how-to-efficiently-generate-all-directed-graphs-with-6-vertices I am attempting to generate all non-isomorphic directed graphs with 6 vertices using command ListGraphs[6, Directed].But it does not work efficiently and takes a month producing nothing. Can anyone ... - asked by Mike (6 votes) —————————- [Bug in Limit in version 11.1.0] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141233/bug-in-limit-in-version-11-1-0 Bug introduced in version 11.1.0 The infinite limit Assuming[a&gt;0&amp;&amp;b&gt;0, Limit[((1+a)*b*x)/Sqrt[1+(1+a)*b*x*((1+a)*b*x+Sqrt[1+(1+a)^2*b^2*x^2])], x-&gt;Infinity]] gives the ... - asked by Roman (5 votes) ### 41 Tuesday, March 28, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Faster derangements?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140794/faster-derangements I wonder what is the fastest method to generate derangements? Both the Combinatorica function and Martin Ender’s answer to Permutations of lists of fixed even numbers are based on filtering the ... - asked by Mr.Wizard (22 votes), answered by jkuczm (21 votes) —————————- [Why Except is so slow as compared to equivalent RegularExpression?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140752/why-except-is-so-slow-as-compared-to-equivalent-regularexpression When comparing performance of the solutions suggested for this question I discovered that StringExpression involving Except is two orders of magnitude slower for large strings as compared to ... - asked by Alexey Popkov (18 votes), answered by Alexey Popkov (20 votes) —————————- [FrameTicks setting for ”tick marks on all sides, but labels only on right and top”] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140966/frameticks-setting-for-tick-marks-on-all-sides-but-labels-only-on-right-and-to Short version: Is there a value for the FrameTicks option that retains the default tick marks on all sides, and puts tick labels only on the right and top sides? I can imagine all manner of ... - asked by kjo (15 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (7 votes) —————————- [Quickly importing several thousands of jpg files?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140974/quickly-importing-several-thousands-of-jpg-files I have several thousands of small .jpg files (30kb each) which I need to import into Mathematica. (I plan to use ImageDistance to investigate their differences.) I tried several ways to import these ... - asked by Kagaratsch (14 votes), answered by Szabolcs (13 votes) —————————- [Select seems unusually slow] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140861/select-seems-unusually-slow I haven’t been doing nearly as much Mathematica as I really should for the past few months, and in order to get my head back in the game I’ve been using it to run roughshod over easy Project Euler ... - asked by Pillsy (13 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (10 votes) —————————- [Permutations of nested parentheses (Dyck words)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141127/permutations-of-nested-parentheses-dyck-words How would I construct a function that outputs Dyck Words? e.g. - there are 14 words in : [[[[]]]], [[[][]]], [[[]][]], [[][[]]], [[[]]][], [[][][]], [][[[]]], [[][]][], [[]][[]], ... - asked by martin (11 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (13 votes) —————————- [Bug: Library functions from older versions of Mathematica may crash in Mathematica 11.1 and conversely] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140758/bug-library-functions-from-older-versions-of-mathematica-may-crash-in-mathemati The following is a confirmed bug [CASE:3846875] that turned up in the prerelease 11.1.0 and is not solved in the official release. This is a small example. Execute the following commands in ... - asked by Fred Simons (11 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to make a Spherical Cow?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/125043/how-to-make-a-spherical-cow Being a theoretical physicist, I always have a great respect for Spherical Cow. So I thought about making one myself. I am not sure how can I create (something considered to be the simplest!) this ... - asked by Sumit (60 votes), answered by andre (69 votes) —————————- [How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66273/how-to-tell-mathematica-that-certain-variables-are-real-imaginary-integer-value I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations (expectation values etc.) by running them through Mathematica. When I say, for example, u[x_] := Sqrt[2/L] * Sin[Pi * n * x / L] and then ... - asked by Matthew Brunetti (13 votes), answered by SquareOne (10 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Why does LatticeReduce require integral or at least rational inputs?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141002/why-does-latticereduce-require-integral-or-at-least-rational-inputs The function LatticeReduce in Mathematica implements the LLL algorithm. It requires the lattice basis to be described as integral or at least rational numbers. Why so? The LLL algorithm itself is ... - asked by wdlang (3 votes) —————————- [Textual progress in console?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140675/textual-progress-in-console Is there any way to get a textual progress bar (e.g. like the progressbar module in a python repl) when working in console mode? Anything would be better than this: - asked by user5601 (6 votes) —————————- [How to trigger an ”ErrorBox behavior”?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140979/how-to-trigger-an-errorbox-behavior Here’s an example of what I mean by an ”ErrorBox behavior”. In the front end, if one evaluates the expression Graphics[Circle[], ImageSize -&gt; Tiny, PlotRange -&gt; {All}] (which includes the ... - asked by kjo (7 votes) ### 42 Tuesday, March 21, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [V11.1: Effective methods to use paid functions economically] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140261/v11-1-effective-methods-to-use-paid-functions-economically In the newly released version 11.1, Mathematica introduces three new functions: WebSearch, WebImageSearch and TextTranslation that requires Service Credits. While I haven’t found much information ... - asked by happy fish (30 votes), answered by Wjx (14 votes) —————————- [How do I disable the stack tracing feature in Mathematica 11?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140285/how-do-i-disable-the-stack-tracing-feature-in-mathematica-11 Bug was introduced in 11.0 and persisting through 11.1 It looks like the Mathematica 11 stack tracing feature (see red ellipsis in front of any warning message) prevents the garbage collector from ... - asked by Shadowray (28 votes), answered by user6014 (23 votes) —————————- [Generative Adversarial Network] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140294/generative-adversarial-network Generative adversarial networks (GAN) is regarded as one of ”the most interesting idea in the last ten years in machine learning” by Yann LeCun. It can be used to generate photo-realistic images that ... - asked by xslittlegrass (17 votes), answered by Taliesin Beynon (8 votes) —————————- [Modeling the spread of an infection in networked computers] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140099/modeling-the-spread-of-an-infection-in-networked-computers I would like to show the iterative stages of infection for problem 2 in this link. In case the link dies, I have copied the text for the problem below: One hundred computers are connected in a ... - asked by martin (14 votes), answered by Martin Ender (24 votes) —————————- [how to remove the little × that shows up in frontend when typing?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140583/how-to-remove-the-little-x-that-shows-up-in-frontend-when-typing Version 11.1 now shows a little grayed out x (a multiplication sign) when one is editing something, to warn them that the expression will be interpreted as the multiplication of what precedes and ... - asked by Nasser (12 votes), answered by Nasser (18 votes) —————————- [Delete redundant x,y pairs] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140571/delete-redundant-x-y-pairs Working through the problems from Hazrat’s Mathematica book and there’s a simple exercise to find all the square numbers where yields as an integer (I think they’re also called ... - asked by Joe (10 votes), answered by kglr (13 votes) —————————- [Getting Compile to work with Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140071/getting-compile-to-work-with-visual-studio-2017-community-edition The new Visual Studio is out since a week and I tried to get it to work with Mathematica (v 11.0). However the usual tricks for working with a new VS version fail here. Related seems to be the ... - asked by Sjoerd C. de Vries (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/627/1-plot-2-scale-axis I would like to plot those two datasets on top of each other. But they have very different range on the axis. How can I have two different axis? I found the following on the help menu but quite ... - asked by 500 (114 votes), answered by ArgentoSapiens (110 votes) —————————- [Assign the results from a Solve to variable(s)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/6669/assign-the-results-from-a-solve-to-variables I understand Mathematica can’t assign the results of a Solve to the unknowns because there may be more than 1 solution. How can I assign the 4 values of following result to variables? - asked by stevenvh (34 votes), answered by Artes (25 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Explaining error when using Part inside Module in Dataset] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140541/explaining-error-when-using-part-inside-module-in-dataset I have a vague recollection of seen an explanation for this, but I can not find it, so it may be a false memory. Will delete if duplicated. Let ds be a simple Dataset ds = Dataset@Table[ ... - asked by rhermans (4 votes) —————————- [Performance-driven approach to using Big Data without killing the hard-drive] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140114/performance-driven-approach-to-using-big-data-without-killing-the-hard-drive Situation A calculation has to be done in which the amount of data is too much to fit into memory. Fortunately, only a part of the overall data set has to be known at a time. The preprocessing is ... - asked by pbx (7 votes) —————————- [Bug with PlotLegends-¿Placed in GraphicsRow] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140539/bug-with-plotlegends-placed-in-graphicsrow Bug introduced in 11.0 and persisting through 11.1 The FrontEnd of Mathematica 11.1.0 on my Windows 7 box runs permanently at 100% CPU when I execute the following command: ... - asked by RonH (3 votes) ### 43 Tuesday, March 14, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to implement a discrete data representation?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139818/how-to-implement-a-discrete-data-representation I’m currently working with large datasets of ”discrete data”. Each of these is a multiset of real numbers of the form , where is an integer, and (the ”scale”) and (the ”bias”) are ... - asked by kjo (17 votes), answered by gwr (14 votes) —————————- [Mathematica incorrectly giving zero for partial derivative] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139669/mathematica-incorrectly-giving-zero-for-partial-derivative Bug introduced in 9.0.1 or earlier Mathematica is incorrectly reporting that the partial derivative of a certain expression is zero. I try to compute the following: D[SymmetricPolynomial[3, {x1, ... - asked by Izaak Meckler (17 votes), answered by march (6 votes) —————————- [Finding vampire numbers] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139808/finding-vampire-numbers How to find vampire numbers by using Mathematica? A number with an even number of digits formed by multiplying a pair of -digit numbers (where the digits are taken from the ... - asked by vito (13 votes), answered by wolfies (8 votes) —————————- [Why do subsequent evaluations seem to be stopped by a False Condition (/;)?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139461/why-do-subsequent-evaluations-seem-to-be-stopped-by-a-false-condition Exploring another problem and this example of @halirutan, I came across an evaluation behavior I don’t understand. When g[] below is evaluated the first time, ig[] is evaluated and a message printed; ... - asked by Michael E2 (12 votes), answered by Carl Woll (13 votes) —————————- [Bug? Numerical calculation error with FullSimplify and arbitrary precision] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139697/bug-numerical-calculation-error-with-fullsimplify-and-arbitrary-precision Bug introduced after 5.2, fixed in 8.0, reintroduced in 9.0 and persisting through 11.0.1 Is this a bug? If I do FullSimplify[n E^(010 n)] then it returns n/2 what is obviously incorrect. ... - asked by David Bevan (10 votes) —————————- [Is there a convention on which name to use for a throwaway variable? (Like underscore in Python)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139622/is-there-a-convention-on-which-name-to-use-for-a-throwaway-variable-like-under I would prefer to write {_, foo} = LongFunctionName[arg1, arg2] instead of foo = LongFunctionName[arg1, arg2][[2]] or foo = Last @ LongFunctionName[arg1, arg2]. Using an actual name for the throwaway ... - asked by ZeitPolizei (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (5 votes) —————————- [Extract images from large avi movies (50-100 GB)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139819/extract-images-from-large-avi-movies-50-100-gb I will get large RGB avi files (35 Hz, 1600*1200 pixels) of up to 100 GB size. All three channels contain the same grayscale image. I want to extract each avi file into one channel png images. To do ... - asked by mrz (8 votes), answered by mrz (11 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66273/how-to-tell-mathematica-that-certain-variables-are-real-imaginary-integer-value I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations by running them through Mathematica. Expectation values and stuff like that. When I say, for example, u[x_] := Sqrt[2/L] * Sin[Pi * n * x / ... - asked by Matthew Brunetti (11 votes), answered by SquareOne (9 votes) —————————- [Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18/where-can-i-find-examples-of-good-mathematica-programming-practice I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ... - asked by J. M. (460 votes), answered by faysou (404 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Integrating rational functions of several variables over ] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139631/integrating-rational-functions-of-several-variables-over-mathbbh4 Let be a rational function of variables from this file, e.g.: W = (256*b*d*f*(a^5 + b^4*(c - 2*e) - a^4*(3*c + 2*e) - c*(c^2 + d^2)*(e^2 + f^2) + a^3*(2*b^2 + 3*c^2 + d^2 + ... - asked by Ricardo Buring (4 votes) —————————- [Best Wolfram tool for interactive web-based calculator] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139954/best-wolfram-tool-for-interactive-web-based-calculator A colleague is considering re-implementing this online ”Photon Propulsion Calculator” using a Mathematica-based product. I wanted to ask the community which product would be best. WebMathematica ... - asked by ConvexMartian (8 votes) —————————- [How to get rid of a built-in context from autocomplete?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139783/how-to-get-rid-of-a-built-in-context-from-autocomplete I have noticed that when I type the name of built-in function Limit in Mathematica, the autocomplete suggests two variants at the top: the first one is the working one, and the second one is just ... - asked by user372003 (4 votes) ### 44 Tuesday, March 7, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [What are some common issues with fitting functions to data?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139038/what-are-some-common-issues-with-fitting-functions-to-data Mathematica has numerous functions designed to, or capable of, fitting known functions, and finding unknown functions to match data sets. What are some common issues that come with finding those fits? ... - asked by Feyre (20 votes), answered by Feyre (21 votes) —————————- [Notebook’s TaggingRules inherit too much] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139017/notebooks-taggingrules-inherit-too-much Bug introduced in V10.4 or earlier and persisting through 11.0.1 [CASE:3852725] was created [...] I have forwarded an incident report to our developers with the information you provided. ... - asked by Kuba (14 votes), answered by Kuba (3 votes) —————————- [Is ExportString defective in V11?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138932/is-exportstring-defective-in-v11 Mathematica doesn’t do the best job of exporting figures with shading or transparency to vector graphics formats such as PDF. A common trick employed here and elsewhere on the web to workaround this ... - asked by Quantum_Oli (11 votes) —————————- [Commands to stop and continue evaluation without Debugger] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139377/commands-to-stop-and-continue-evaluation-without-debugger I would like to stop the evaluation somehwere at a specifiy line in a notebook. Then I could for example check the state of some variables. After that I would like to continue the evaluation from the ... - asked by lio (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (9 votes) —————————- [How am I misusing EvenQ, or, how are EvenQ and (Mod[2,#]==0)& differently evaluated?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139281/how-am-i-misusing-evenq-or-how-are-evenq-and-mod2-0-differently-evalua While working on a problem, I was using EvenQ in a RegionPlot. I came across this interesting case (simplified here for specificity). I expected to see a bunch of stripes, but got nothing: ... - asked by Piquan (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (9 votes) —————————- [Partition a list by count of a number] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138905/partition-a-list-by-count-of-a-number I want to take this list when the 2 appear 3 times SeedRandom[1] list = RandomChoice[{.2, .5, .3} -&gt; {1, 2, 3}, 20] {3,1,3,1,2,1,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,2} Hope to get {{3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, ... - asked by yode (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (5 votes) —————————- [Why SciDraw can not handle the StreamPlot?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138926/why-scidraw-can-not-handle-the-streamplot I find that the package SciDraw is suitable for preparing the figure in the thesis. When I use it to plot the line, it works well. For example <<SciDraw ... - asked by Ice0cean (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (11 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to express trigonometric equation in terms of of given trigonometric function?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/434/how-to-express-trigonometric-equation-in-terms-of-of-given-trigonometric-functio How can I express a trigonometric equation / identity in terms of a given trigonometric function? using following trigonometric identities Sin[x]^2+Cos[x]^2==1 Sin[x]/Cos[x]==Tan[x] ... - asked by Prashant Bhate (25 votes), answered by Simon (32 votes) —————————- [Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29203/calculate-the-2d-fourier-transform-of-an-image I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0. I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase spectrum, as well as reconstruct the ... - asked by user8727 (5 votes), answered by Nasser (27 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Two-Point correlation function of Ising data is not giving expected results] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139016/two-point-correlation-function-of-ising-data-is-not-giving-expected-results Due to the nature of my problem, and readers perhaps not having a physics background, I need to give some context to my problem which is intrinsic to it. The problem however is not a physics one, but ... - asked by Luca Pontiggia (3 votes) —————————- [Evaluating an expectation expressed by a difficult expression] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138917/evaluating-an-expectation-expressed-by-a-difficult-expression Background I have a 2-dimensional space. The receiver is at the center. The locations of transmitters are given by the PPP with density . The serving transmitter is the one that is ... - asked by George Harnandez (3 votes) —————————- [How to control indentation of a cell relative to it’s parent?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138971/how-to-control-indentation-of-a-cell-relative-to-its-parent Is there a stylesheet property that can be set to control the extra level of indentation of a cell in its group (I don’t want to specify absolute CellMargins)? Carl suggests in the comments to use ... - asked by user5601 (3 votes) ### 45 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Parallelize Map and ParallelMap] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138476/parallelize-map-and-parallelmap Bug introduced in 8.0 and persisting through 11.0.1 or later It is stated in the documentation that Parallelize[Map[f, expr]] is equivalent to ParallelMap[f, expr]. But what about these ... - asked by Mher (29 votes), answered by Szabolcs (23 votes) —————————- [Can we intelligently control evaluation in Thread?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138661/can-we-intelligently-control-evaluation-in-thread This is a bid at creating a canonical Q&A. Many questions have been asked that come down to the fact that Thread evaluates its first argument before threading is attempted. In a few minutes I ... - asked by Mr.Wizard (27 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (21 votes) —————————- [Learn Mathematica (Wolfram) Language in one day] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138366/learn-mathematica-wolfram-language-in-one-day Currently I am trying to learn Python. Searching for relevant material I came across X in Y minutes and books with titles such as Learn Python in one day, in 24 hours, etc. Similar material exists ... - asked by dimitris (23 votes), answered by masterxilo (5 votes) —————————- [Puzzle — 20 People to consume 20 units of food under constraints] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138637/puzzle-20-people-to-consume-20-units-of-food-under-constraints I am learning Mathematica because I love it. I also love solving puzzles so I think it would be a nice way to learn Mathematica through puzzles. This is first puzzle in series I intend to solve. So ... - asked by Jawad_Mansoor (14 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (18 votes) —————————- [Compute the curvature of a bent stack of paper] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138583/compute-the-curvature-of-a-bent-stack-of-paper My goal is to link the curvature of a bent stack of paper in a wind tunnel to its bending modulus , knowing all the other physical properties. To this end, I would like to reproduce the numerical ... - asked by yketa (12 votes), answered by xzczd (8 votes) —————————- [WordOrientation does not work in v11?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138811/wordorientation-does-not-work-in-v11 Bug introduced in 11.0.1 It seems that WordOrientation does not work in v11. The sample code input = ExampleData[{"Text", "AliceInWonderland"}]; WordCloud[input, WordOrientation -&gt; "Random"] ... - asked by Lem.ma (11 votes) —————————- [Code request: Make ”copy formatted code” bulletproof] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138436/code-request-make-copy-formatted-code-bulletproof With the GeneralUtilities‘PrintDefinitions functions comes a usable code formatting engine. On this site, most of the time we share code. I believe it would be awesome to have a robust button that ... - asked by halirutan (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Why round to even integers?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/2116/why-round-to-even-integers According to the Mathematica help: Round rounds numbers of the form x.5 toward the nearest even integer. For example: Round[{0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5}] gives {0, 2, 2, 4, 4} What’s the ... - asked by wxffles (61 votes), answered by Per Alexandersson (37 votes) —————————- [Assign the results from a Solve to variable(s)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/6669/assign-the-results-from-a-solve-to-variables I understand Mathematica can’t assign the results of a Solve to the unknowns because there may be more than 1 solution. How can I assign the 4 values of following result to variables? - asked by stevenvh (33 votes), answered by Artes (24 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Plotting a 2D slice of a 3D function] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138808/plotting-a-2d-slice-of-a-3d-function I'd like to plot (Sqrt[x] + Sqrt[y] + Sqrt[z])^2 in a slice defined by x+y+z=1 I figured out similar problem 5 years ago, but it was a bit involved, ie, needing 10 lines of Mathematica code. Is there ... - asked by Yaroslav Bulatov (2 votes) —————————- [Export of Plot3D function completely different from the render within Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138412/export-of-plot3d-function-completely-different-from-the-render-within-mathematic I am plotting a simple function: Plot3D[-RandomReal[{0, 10}] Cos[x/3] Cos[y/3], {x, -π, π}, {y, -π, π}, Axes -&gt; False, Boxed -&gt; False, BoundaryStyle -&gt; None, Mesh -&gt; None] ... - asked by waffl (1 vote) —————————- [CreateExecutable returns Failed] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138328/createexecutable-returns-failed My platform is win10 64b, Mathematica 11 and Visual Studio 2015. When I apply CreateExecutable, it always returns Failed. The configuration is right. Please what is the problem? Thank you. ... - asked by tu312 (1 vote) ### 46 Tuesday, February 21, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How can I adaptively simplify a curved shape?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137937/how-can-i-adaptively-simplify-a-curved-shape For the purposes of creating a publication-quality plot marker I wish to convert a font glyph into a simplified Polygon where points are taken adaptively according to curvature of the boundary. ... - asked by Alexey Popkov (22 votes), answered by Szabolcs (29 votes) —————————- [Can Mathematica be used to make anamorphic distortions like these?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137853/can-mathematica-be-used-to-make-anamorphic-distortions-like-these We have all see these sidewalk and street images that appear to be 3D based on the viewers perspective, but then wildly distort when viewed from a different perspective. Seems to me anamorphic ... - asked by R Hall (12 votes), answered by Simon Woods (10 votes) —————————- [How to implement lane-change rules for Nagel Schreckenberg model] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138138/how-to-implement-lane-change-rules-for-nagel-schreckenberg-model I am trying to extend the Nagel-Schreckenberg model for traffic flow to include two lanes of traffic. I have a function that generates information about a random initial road configuration. A road ... - asked by jlrawden (11 votes), answered by Ali Hashmi (5 votes) —————————- [How to make a custom NN layer in Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138230/how-to-make-a-custom-nn-layer-in-mathematica Is there a way to create our own custom layers for Neural Networks in Mathematica ? I suspect it should be possible, any pointers or directions on how to go about it? I am interested in ... - asked by Andy Stow Away (9 votes) —————————- [How to build private function with built-in function’s option] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138126/how-to-build-private-function-with-built-in-functions-option Since this code work well: Needs["GeneralUtilities"] GeneralUtilitiesBenchmarkPlot[{SortBy[#, Identity] &amp;, Sort}, Range, "IncludeFits" -&gt; True, TimeConstraint -&gt; 8] I want to set ... - asked by yode (9 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (11 votes) —————————- [Doing combinations of sub-sublists] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138178/doing-combinations-of-sub-sublists To create a list of all the possible combinations of a sublist. I have a list, somewhat resembling the following format: {{{a1, a2}, {b1}}, {{a1, a2}, {c1, c2}}, {{a1, a2}, {c1, c2}, {d1, d2}}} ... - asked by Andrew Johnson (8 votes), answered by halirutan (11 votes) —————————- [Warning: FrontEnd crash with ‘Graphics@InfiniteLine‘ for unknown symbolic coordinates] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137847/warning-frontend-crash-with-graphicsinfiniteline-for-unknown-symbolic-coordi Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 11.0.1 InfiniteLine is new in 10.0. [CASE:3840702] From your description, I gather you are noticing an unexpected crash while trying to evaluate ... - asked by masterxilo (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to add a vertical line to a plot] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3561/how-to-add-a-vertical-line-to-a-plot In the plot below I would like to add two vertical lines at . How can I do that? f[x_] := (x^2 z)/((x^2 - y^2)^2 + 4 q^2 x^2) /. {y -&gt; π/15, z -&gt; 1, q -&gt; ... - asked by sjdh (33 votes), answered by Ajasja (49 votes) —————————- [Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3242/can-mathematica-do-symbolic-linear-algebra For instance, is there some way I can say ”let A and B be arbitrary real and matrices, Simplify[Transpose[Transpose[A].Transpose[B]]]" and Mathematica would simplify it to B.A? ... - asked by nikie (42 votes), answered by helen (21 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Calculate PDF of difference of Max and Min for Gaussian random variables] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138027/calculate-pdf-of-difference-of-max-and-min-for-gaussian-random-variables Although this should be a standard question I didn’t find it in SE, and it was a nice exercise in Mathematica. Let and be two independent Gaussian random variables with distribution . ... - asked by Dr. Wolfgang Hintze (3 votes) —————————- [Implementing t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137955/implementing-t-sne-t-distributed-stochastic-neighbor-embedding Context Six months ago @M.R. asked about an implementation of the t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) algorithm by van der Maaten and Hinton (2008). (@M.R.'s question) @Alexey ... - asked by SumNeuron (3 votes) —————————- [Is there an easy way to to collect a large number variables into a list or list of lists?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138225/is-there-an-easy-way-to-to-collect-a-large-number-variables-into-a-list-or-list I have a large number of variables in a notebook from a data analysis routine, the results of which now need to be fed through a mathematical model and various items for visualization. For example, ... - asked by Joe Kissling (2 votes) ### 47 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to generate a mesh with quadrilateral elements?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137479/how-to-generate-a-mesh-with-quadrilateral-elements I have the following code that generates a finite element mesh: Needs["NDSolveFEM"] order = 2; mesh = ToElementMesh[ DiscretizeGraphics[ GraphicsComplex[{{0, 4}, {5, 4}, {5, 0}, {8, 0}, {8, ... - asked by Diogo (13 votes), answered by Young (12 votes) —————————- [Why can’t I plot Log[Gamma[x]] for x ¿ 170?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137666/why-cant-i-plot-loggammax-for-x-170 Bug introduced in 11.0 For some reason I can’t plot Log[Gamma[x]] for values of x larger than approximately 170: Plot[Log[Gamma[x]], {x, 130, 200}, PlotRange -&gt; All] It works perfectly well ... - asked by Felix (11 votes), answered by Szabolcs (12 votes) —————————- [Finding the number of odd quintinomial coefficients] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137692/finding-the-number-of-odd-quintinomial-coefficients I am searching for the number of odd coefficients of for arbitrary . It took some hours to compute the result for . There are odd ... - asked by Jenny_mathy (10 votes), answered by Carl Woll (15 votes) —————————- [Possible bug with RegionPlot] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137273/possible-bug-with-regionplot RegionPlot[ImplicitRegion[(2 x - 1)/(x - 1) &lt; 3/2, {x, y}], PlotRange -&gt; {{-9, 9}, {-9, 9}}] Just checking whether anyone else can replicate this. Can anybody confirm such behavior and, ... - asked by mathe (10 votes), answered by Jason B. (8 votes) —————————- Suppose I have a list that looks like the following (Town names and total distance to that town) resupply = { {"Coleman", 0}, {"Highwood House", 106}, {"Canmore", 229}, {"Exshaw", 245}, ... - asked by Tom De Vries (9 votes), answered by Kuba (19 votes) —————————- [How to superimpose plots and graphics in the same coordinate system?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137408/how-to-superimpose-plots-and-graphics-in-the-same-coordinate-system NB: I am aware that ”plots” are graphics too, so the title would be more precisely worded if ”graphics” were replaced by ”non-plot graphics”. EDIT: I have edited my original example to make the ... - asked by kjo (8 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (5 votes) —————————- [Unit tests for Graphics or FE boxes] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137541/unit-tests-for-graphics-or-fe-boxes Consider the following expression with bad syntax: Graphics[foo] How can I detect the error and retrieve the error message programmatically, so I can check for it in unit tests? - asked by Szabolcs (7 votes), answered by rcollyer (9 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad. Is ... - asked by Tianxiang Xiong (47 votes), answered by Artes (38 votes) —————————- [Why this real integral yields imaginary results?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/127301/why-this-real-integral-yields-imaginary-results Integrate[(y - y^2 + x - x^2 + 2*x*y)/(1 - x - y),{x,0,1},{y, 0, 1}] The above integral yields -1-4Iπ/3 in Mathematica. Since the integrand is real (although divergent at some points), how does ... - asked by Chong Wang (16 votes), answered by bbgodfrey (19 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to convert ‘LogTicks[0, 2][[1, 2]]‘ to a regular number] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137208/how-to-convert-logticks0-21-2-to-a-regular-number I want to convert the tick labels generated by LogTicks of the CustomTicks package to regular numbers. The first tick label is in element [[1,2]] of the object generated by LogTicks. FullForm ... - asked by Felix (1 vote) —————————- [Solving the Euler-Lagrange equation with NDSolve‘ProcessEquations] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137292/solving-the-euler-lagrange-equation-with-ndsolveprocessequations I would like to compute the shortest distance between a number on pairs of points on a 2-dimensional Riemanniann statistical manifold (Negative Binomial distributions manifold, equipped with the Rao’s ... - asked by C. Manté (1 vote) —————————- [Constraining the independent variable in a control system] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137581/constraining-the-independent-variable-in-a-control-system For an analog closed loop feedback control, I can do the following to model the response of a second-order physical system with an order 1 zeros polynomial to a step disturbance. I have a proportional ... - asked by David Ollodart (2 votes) ### 48 Tuesday, February 7, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Code that generates a mandala] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136974/code-that-generates-a-mandala My little brother asked me to print original mandalas for coloring. I would like some idea on how to create them, but without color, so he can color them. examples - asked by zeros (31 votes), answered by Anton Antonov (48 votes) —————————- [How to make Mathematica variables declarative instead of just-in-time?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136833/how-to-make-mathematica-variables-declarative-instead-of-just-in-time Is there a way to have Mathematica at the notebook level (SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], CellContext -&gt; Notebook]) only uses a set of declared variables in the notebook context. Any variables ... - asked by Edmund (27 votes), answered by rcollyer (25 votes) —————————- [Shorthand for map at level 2] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136751/shorthand-for-map-at-level-2 I love the shorthand /@. It is amazing for readability (and laziness when typing). However, right now I find that I need Map at level 2, i.e. Map[f, List[List[a,b],List[c,d]], {2}], a lot and I'd wish ... - asked by Kvothe (16 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (19 votes) —————————- [Proteins, ProteinData, WolframAlpha] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136741/proteins-proteindata-wolframalpha Apologies in advance, this is the first I’ve messed with ProteinData and access through WolframAlpha, so clearly I may not know how Mathematica and Alpha decide on what is the ’right way’ to ask ... - asked by flip (15 votes), answered by J. M. (10 votes) —————————- [Simplifying a reverse Fold for a Query] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136856/simplifying-a-reverse-fold-for-a-query Is there a simpler way to parametrize this tail-recursive expression to be applied as a Query (for processing a nested Association)? The pattern is shown by example with first 3 levels: - asked by alancalvitti (11 votes), answered by Edmund (10 votes) —————————- [Where is Abbott? How to make logograms from the film ”Arrival”?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/137156/where-is-abbott-how-to-make-logograms-from-the-film-arrival The film Arrival showed Wolfram Language code in action analysing alien logograms. A recent blog describes some details and mentions a live-coding video by Christopher Wolfam. See also Stephen ... - asked by KennyColnago (8 votes), answered by KennyColnago (10 votes) —————————- [How to implement neural style transfer?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136704/how-to-implement-neural-style-transfer In the paper A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style, Leon A. Gatys et all. describe a process of extracting the content and style vectors from an image separately. They use this technique to generate ... - asked by M.R. (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to add a vertical line to a plot] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3561/how-to-add-a-vertical-line-to-a-plot In the plot below I would like to add two vertical lines at . How can I do that? f[x_] := (x^2 z)/((x^2 - y^2)^2 + 4 q^2 x^2) /. {y -&gt; π/15, z -&gt; 1, q -&gt; ... - asked by sjdh (32 votes), answered by Ajasja (48 votes) —————————- [Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29203/calculate-the-2d-fourier-transform-of-an-image I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0. I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase spectrum, as well as reconstruct the ... - asked by user8727 (5 votes), answered by Nasser (27 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Nonsparse sparse array crashes kernel on windows] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136835/nonsparse-sparse-array-crashes-kernel-on-windows On win 10, 64 bit, version 11.0.1, my kernel just started crashing for no reason as for as I can see. Does/should the following crash your kernel? sparse = SparseArray[ArrayRules[RandomInteger[{1, ... - asked by Coolwater (6 votes) —————————- [How to visualize the vorticity of a 3D velocity field?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136917/how-to-visualize-the-vorticity-of-a-3d-velocity-field I have a snapshot of a system with 50 particles. The snapshot is a list of 3 coordinates and 3 velocities per each particle. Namely, , which AKA phase space ... - asked by 0x90 (5 votes) —————————- [Finding line segments on the image by using ImageLines] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136795/finding-line-segments-on-the-image-by-using-imagelines There is an image from wolfram documentation I want to find and highlight lines on the following image I tried: img = Import["http://imgur.com/NbNwYWC.png"] lines = ImageLines[EdgeDetect[img], ... - asked by vito (3 votes) ### 49 Tuesday, January 31, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to get a specified number of points that are nearly equally spaced in a closed rectangle] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136447/how-to-get-a-specified-number-of-points-that-are-nearly-equally-spaced-in-a-clos TriangulateMesh is almost the right tool for this problem. For example, numb = 113; region = BoundaryMeshRegion[{{0, 0}, {3, 0}, {3, 1}, {0, 1}}, Line[{1, 2, 3, 4, 1}]]; mesh = ... - asked by Ted Ersek (17 votes), answered by Szabolcs (15 votes) —————————- [Tutorial on creating publication quality documents in Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136426/tutorial-on-creating-publication-quality-documents-in-mathematica Are there books or tutorials that walk one through creating a professional publication quality notebook? For example, I would like to create a two column article using an IEEE format. Is this ... - asked by Doug Kimzey (13 votes) —————————- [Type conversions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136476/type-conversions I have the following list, each element of which is of type string: ”abc”, ”def”,”2”,”ghi”,”7” Is there an efficient way to arrive at: ”abcdef”, 2,”ghi”,7 where adjacent alphabetic elements ... - asked by Suite401 (12 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (8 votes) —————————- [Alternatives and the Flat attribute] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136157/alternatives-and-the-flat-attribute When a head has the attribute Flat then the pattern matcher is able to pick out a sublist of its arguments, even though the structure doesn’t match: SetAttributes[f, Flat]; f[a, b, c, d] /. f[a, b] ... - asked by Martin Ender (11 votes) —————————- [Assign names to Dataset columns] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136422/assign-names-to-dataset-columns I am constructing a dataset like so: data = Dataset[AssociationThread[Keys[characterCounts], charFrequencies]] which gives me a dataset that looks like this: This is all fine, but as you can ... - asked by damjandd (10 votes), answered by Kuba (10 votes) —————————- [Dataset interferes with SeedRandom] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136339/dataset-interferes-with-seedrandom This seems like a pretty awful bug: SeedRandom[1]; RandomInteger[10, 10] Out: {1,4,0,7,0,0,8,6,0,4} While: SeedRandom[1]; Dataset[&lt;|a -&gt; 1, b -&gt; 2|&gt;]; RandomInteger[10, 10] Out: ... - asked by Mohammed AlQuraishi (10 votes) —————————- [Problem with integrating DiracDelta] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136214/problem-with-integrating-diracdelta I thought I had found a bug in Mathematica and reported it already in version 9, since it wasn’t fixed in version 10 or 11 I reported it two more times but I never get any reply whatsoever so I’m ... - asked by user3777022 (10 votes), answered by Julien Kluge (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Assign the results from a Solve to variable(s)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/6669/assign-the-results-from-a-solve-to-variables I understand Mathematica can’t assign the results of a Solve to the unknowns because there may be more than 1 solution. How can I assign the 4 values of following result to variables? - asked by stevenvh (30 votes), answered by Artes (22 votes) —————————- [How to create a fascinating QR code like this?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/120041/how-to-create-a-fascinating-qr-code-like-this Check the facinating QRCode in my profile page here You can find that this QRCode is some sort of intriguing as the QRCode is a IMAGE ITSELF!!! So my question is, how to create such a QRCode ... - asked by Wjx (24 votes), answered by Wjx (19 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to Approximate at Non-differentiable Point (forced Series Expansion around Branch Cut)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136395/how-to-approximate-at-non-differentiable-point-forced-series-expansion-around-b I need a numerical approximation around some functions at from the left side, where is unfortunately the right end of the domain (in the reals) so the functions are not ... - asked by Lee David Chung Lin (3 votes) —————————- [3D reconstruction of a 2D SEM image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136284/3d-reconstruction-of-a-2d-sem-image I am curious if Mathematica could do reconstruction of a 2D SEM image into a 3D. It is the same what can be done by MountainsMap SEM software http://www.digitalsurf.fr/en/mntsem.html Visually it ... - asked by Viacheslav Plotnikov (4 votes) —————————- [Help needed in Understand the following program in solving a stiff nonlinear differential equation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136607/help-needed-in-understand-the-following-program-in-solving-a-stiff-nonlinear-dif I am trying to solve a particular Cauchy problem given by I found from a particular paper that the solutions looks like For the auxiliary conditions For only specific values of I ... - asked by kernel_panic (1 vote) ### 50 Tuesday, January 24, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [My Girlfriend is going to prison...Save her with Math] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135937/my-girlfriend-is-going-to-prison-save-her-with-math Salacious title, but true story. dmethyl1 = { {0, 0}, {.25, 1}, {.5, 7}, {1, 26}, {1.5, 40}, {2, 45}, {2.5, 45}, {3, 44}, {3.5, 44}, {4, ... - asked by Prisoners Dilema (35 votes), answered by bobthechemist (22 votes) —————————- [How to use the iterator in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135916/how-to-use-the-iterator-in-mathematica I find the Mathematica has the iterator data structure. We can build some iterators like this: Constant iterator GeneralUtilitiesConstantIterator[5] Key value iterator ... - asked by yode (15 votes), answered by Michael E2 (15 votes) —————————- [SquaresR memory leak?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135781/squaresr-memory-leak I have tried the following code in Mathematica 11.0.1.0 on my MacBook: HistoryLength = 0; ClearAll["Global*"]; ClearSystemCache[]; MemoryInUse[] AbsoluteTiming[Do[SquaresR[2, i], {i, 1000000}];] ... - asked by outofmemory (12 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (18 votes) —————————- [SetOptions locally?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136005/setoptions-locally Is there a way to SetOptions locally? For example, I have a Module and inside it I am doing a lot of Plots with similar options. If I do a SetOptions[Plot, ...] inside the Module, the change ... - asked by becko (11 votes), answered by J. M. (12 votes) —————————- [Understanding simple numerical calculation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135636/understanding-simple-numerical-calculation I am trying to understand why N[0.1]//FullForm returns 0.1’ (A). Indeed, in base two is . If I truncate this number to the first 52 digits and convert it back to base ... - asked by anderstood (11 votes), answered by Michael E2 (18 votes) —————————- [How to work with Date calculations?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135713/how-to-work-with-date-calculations I have never worked using the DateObject function But I suspect there must be a (easy) way of doing it. I want to find out, when in the future, from which point, that the cumulative days of not ... - asked by Chen Stats Yu (10 votes), answered by Simon Woods (12 votes) —————————- [How to riffle matrices] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135848/how-to-riffle-matrices I have four matrices m = {{M11, M12, M13}, {M21, M22, M23}, {M31, M32, M33}}; n = {{N11, N12, N13}, {N21, N22, N23}, {N31, N32, N33}}; p = {{P11, P12, P13}, {P21, P22, P23}, {P31, P32, P33}}; q = ... - asked by Kowalski (8 votes), answered by Carl Woll (11 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Is there an open source implementation of Mathematica-the-language?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4454/is-there-an-open-source-implementation-of-mathematica-the-language I’ve seen questions before such as ”What is the best open-source equivalent for Mathematica?”, but that specific question (and that line of inquiry in general) cares more about the computer algebra ... - asked by sblom (81 votes), answered by Simon (64 votes) —————————- [Is it possible to export the equations from Mathematica to MATLAB?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/14035/is-it-possible-to-export-the-equations-from-mathematica-to-matlab Is it possible to export the output expressions from Mathematica computations (e.g., equations) in valid MATLAB syntax? - asked by Seyhmus Güngören (27 votes), answered by R. M. (35 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Gap in X-axis when using LogLinearPlot] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136025/gap-in-x-axis-when-using-loglinearplot Basically, this is the plot that comes out when I choose Frame -&gt; True Due to my need of labeling the axes. Is there a way to get rid off of that annoying gap? Here is the figure Here is the ... - asked by Alan Turing (1 vote) —————————- [When solving a heavy PDE Mathematica falls out: what can be done] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135819/when-solving-a-heavy-pde-mathematica-falls-out-what-can-be-done I am solving a heavy PDE. The mesh is huge, and Mma falls out after few tens of minutes solving: the cell becomes inactive, kernel (pressumably) quits, all variables turn blue. My question is, what ... - asked by Alexei Boulbitch (3 votes) —————————- [Exporting Cellular Automata Image Sequence] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136068/exporting-cellular-automata-image-sequence I am trying to make an animation in Adobe After Effects utilizing cellular automata. I would like to export each step (say 500 steps) as a high resolution vector image so that I can combine them as an ... - asked by Ryan Conover (1 vote) ### 51 Tuesday, January 17, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to rotate the curve but not the axes?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135376/how-to-rotate-the-curve-but-not-the-axes I have a such graphic: data = {{0, 5}, {1.9, 7.5}, {0, 12}, {-5, 15.5}, {-1.2, 33.4}}; p=Plot[Interpolation[Reverse /@ data, x, InterpolationOrder -&gt; 2], {x, 0, 55}, Epilog -&gt; {Red, ... - asked by yode (11 votes), answered by kglr (11 votes) —————————- [Function to draw densely interconnected layers in graph (e.g., neural net)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135354/function-to-draw-densely-interconnected-layers-in-graph-e-g-neural-net I can use Graph[] to manually draw the shape of a very simple set of interconnected layers (for instance, a small neural network): Graph[{1 -&gt; 3, 2 -&gt; 3, 1 -&gt; 5, 2 -&gt; 5, 1 -&gt; 4, 2 ... - asked by Larry OBrien (11 votes), answered by kglr (12 votes) —————————- [An Intersection function on lists that saves intersection positions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135583/an-intersection-function-on-lists-that-saves-intersection-positions I would like an intersection function on lists like Intersection that also stores the coordinates of the intersections. For instance for a,b,c and b,c,e would give something like ... - asked by Kvothe (9 votes), answered by ciao (9 votes) —————————- [Combining lists of lists with random structure] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135238/combining-lists-of-lists-with-random-structure I have two lists which I would like to combine. One is of a random structure, which might be: l1={{3, 2, 4, 2}, {2, 3}, {4, 3}, {{2, 2}}, {{3, 3}}, {3, 2}} where the elements in each sublist may ... - asked by Jonathan Shock (9 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (7 votes) —————————- [Slicing an Association with named key span without normalizing?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135092/slicing-an-association-with-named-key-span-without-normalizing Is there way to slice an Association with named key span? Span currently doesn’t accept named keys: &lt;|"z" -&gt; 1, "x" -&gt; 2, "b" -&gt; 3, "a" -&gt; 4|&gt; // Query["x" ;; "a"] - asked by alancalvitti (9 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (11 votes) —————————- [Finding Ramanujan’s taxicab numbers] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135128/finding-ramanujans-taxicab-numbers How to find Hardy-Ramanujan Numbers by using Mathematica? Definition: Taxicab number is defined as the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of two positive cubes in distinct ways. ... - asked by vito (9 votes), answered by vito (6 votes) —————————- [Area of surface of revolution] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135358/area-of-surface-of-revolution I am asked to rotate the curve from to about the x-axis and find the area of the surface. I was able to use RevolutionPlot3D to show the surface. RevolutionPlot3D[Sqrt[4 ... - asked by David (7 votes), answered by corey979 (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Entering numbers in Scientific Notation?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/36792/entering-numbers-in-scientific-notation I need to play with a lot of powers such as 10^-3. 1E-3 does not work for it. Is there any short form for it? - asked by hhh (23 votes), answered by Rahul (32 votes) —————————- [xkcd-style graphs] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-style-graphs I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn’t manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don’t have enough command over PlotLegends to have these ... - asked by Amatya (532 votes), answered by Simon Woods (385 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Amelioration of a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker nice code] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135220/amelioration-of-a-karush-kuhn-tucker-nice-code In what concerns the resolution of a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition, this wonderful code borrowed to Parreiras (The Mathematica Journal 16 2014) which is a correction of another code by Kampas (The ... - asked by cyrille.piatecki (4 votes) —————————- [URLDownload aborts prematurely] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135355/urldownload-aborts-prematurely So I’ve been trying to automate the download and build of various large packages for hooking Mathematica into extensions but the downloads continually finish prematurely. Edit: first example was just ... - asked by MB1965 (2 votes) —————————- [Simplify an integer expression involving Ceiling and Root[] of third degree polynomial] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135566/simplify-an-integer-expression-involving-ceiling-and-root-of-third-degree-poly I would like to simplify the following expression Ceiling[ToRadicals[Root[90 - 6 num + 65 #1 + 12 #1^2 + #1^3 &amp;, 1]]] with num an integer greater than or equal to 16. I tried using ... - asked by Piruzzolo (1 vote) ### 52 Tuesday, January 10, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Is there any possibility to implement a structure like a ProgressIndicator into NDSolve?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134787/is-there-any-possibility-to-implement-a-structure-like-a-progressindicator-into It is already formulated in the title. NDSolve takes sometimes a considerable piece of time. It would be very practical to have some information on how long it is still to wait. So, any ideas? To ... - asked by Alexei Boulbitch (20 votes), answered by user21 (16 votes) —————————- [This integral is divergent. How to use NIntegrate to see how it grows?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135073/this-integral-is-divergent-how-to-use-nintegrate-to-see-how-it-grows I am trying to get information on the following integral: The lower limit is somewhat arbitrary; the point is that ... - asked by Gelasio Salazar (10 votes), answered by Michael E2 (6 votes) —————————- [Call a Haskell DLL from Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134913/call-a-haskell-dll-from-mathematica Looking for a way to call a Haskell DLL from Mathematica, I’ve stumbled on this, for GNU R: It is (to me) a beautiful example ... - asked by Rand (10 votes), answered by WReach (11 votes) —————————- [Product of set elements not exceeding a bound] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134743/product-of-set-elements-not-exceeding-a-bound I have a set of distinct positive integers l (if you wish, you may assume it is a list ordered by size), and a bound lim. In general, l has thousands of elements, but all are at most equal to lim. I ... - asked by rogerl (10 votes), answered by george2079 (4 votes) —————————- [How does Mathematica solve a certain differential equation?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135055/how-does-mathematica-solve-a-certain-differential-equation I was trying to solve a nonlinear differential equation with the following code. DSolve[3*x^2/D[u[x, y], x] + 3*y^2/D[u[x, y], y] == -1, u, {x, y}] And I got the following output: {{u -&gt; ... - asked by usr109876787 (8 votes), answered by Michael E2 (12 votes) —————————- [How to cross-compile LibraryLink code for multi-platform distribution] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135022/how-to-cross-compile-librarylink-code-for-multi-platform-distribution I am running Mathematica on a Windows 10 machine and I would like to develop a package for public distribution. Most of the package will be Mathematica code, but some timing-critical parts should be ... - asked by Ben Niehoff (8 votes) —————————- [Plotting difference between two Half Normal Distributions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134824/plotting-difference-between-two-half-normal-distributions I am new to Mathematica, and this question may reflect that. I am trying to plot the probability density function of a random variable which equals the difference between two independent random ... - asked by user120911 (8 votes), answered by Jim Baldwin (9 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to create a fascinating QR code like this?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/120041/how-to-create-a-fascinating-qr-code-like-this Check the facinating QRCode in my profile page here You can find that this QRCode is some sort of intriguing as the QRCode is a IMAGE ITSELF!!! So my question is, how to create such a QRCode ... - asked by Wjx (24 votes), answered by Wjx (19 votes) —————————- [Find the 5566th digit after the decimal point of 7/101] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/125025/find-the-5566th-digit-after-the-decimal-point-of-7-101 I want to find the 5566th digit after the decimal point of 7/101. I input the following code into Mathematica 11: Mod[IntegerPart[7/101*10^5566], 10] The output is 6, which is the correct answer. ... - asked by Wei-Cheng Liu (17 votes), answered by yarchik (19 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Inset thickness and ImageResolution] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134738/inset-thickness-and-imageresolution I have noticed that when I export something with an Inset objects, pp[t_] := Plot[Sin[x], {x, -10, 10}, Epilog -&gt; {Inset[ Framed[ Text[Style[HoldForm["t=" t], ... - asked by usumdelphini (4 votes) —————————- [Find the parameter values for my matrix for it to have imaginary eigenvalues] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134909/find-the-parameter-values-for-my-matrix-for-it-to-have-imaginary-eigenvalues Say I have a matrix that depends on a parameter . The following may be an example: a = {{1, u^3 + 2, 1}, {0, 1, u}, {1/u^2, 0, 1}}; My real problem is 12x12 matrix with difficult parametric ... - asked by Mirko Aveta (1 vote) —————————- [NotebookEvaluate breaks notebook’s context] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/135025/notebookevaluate-breaks-notebooks-context Here is an example of a notebook with local context: nb = CreateDocument[{ ExpressionCell[Defer @ CurrentValue[EvaluationNotebook[], CellContext], "Input"], ExpressionCell[Defer @ Context, ... - asked by Kuba (2 votes) ### 53 Tuesday, January 3, 2017 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Why should I avoid the For loop in Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134609/why-should-i-avoid-the-for-loop-in-mathematica Some people advise against the use of For loops in Mathematica. Why? Should I heed this advice? What is wrong with For? What should I use instead? - asked by Szabolcs (27 votes), answered by Szabolcs (36 votes) —————————- [Is there a style sheet that can be used to generate Stack Exchange input?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134518/is-there-a-style-sheet-that-can-be-used-to-generate-stack-exchange-input It would be convenient if there were a style sheet that automatically indented input cells, and automatically commented output cells, so that one could generate a stack exchange response in WL, and ... - asked by Carl Woll (24 votes), answered by Carl Woll (21 votes) —————————- [Function to create a path made of horizontal and vertical lines between a number of points] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134424/function-to-create-a-path-made-of-horizontal-and-vertical-lines-between-a-number I would like to create a function where I can define which case I want to use to create a path. p1 = {40, 48}; p2 = {50, 116}; p3 = {63, 160}; listPurple = Symbol["p" &lt;&gt; ToString[#]] &amp; /@ ... - asked by Maria Regina (16 votes), answered by corey979 (15 votes) —————————- [How to wrap a crumpled paper over a surface?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134514/how-to-wrap-a-crumpled-paper-over-a-surface My initial question was about the making of a crumpled paper. After reading this article suggested by J.M. and little more browsing (kind of random walk you do on a Saturday) I thought about expanding ... - asked by Sumit (8 votes) —————————- [Would like input and output printed on same line, w/o needing extra syntax] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134406/would-like-input-and-output-printed-on-same-line-w-o-needing-extra-syntax SUMMARY I’d like to get MMA to automatically print both input and output on the same line, in TraditionalForm, without having to add any extra syntax. Further, I’d like the output to be fully ... - asked by theorist (8 votes), answered by Simon Rochester (4 votes) —————————- [Issue with Cell Frames in version 11] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134665/issue-with-cell-frames-in-version-11 Since upgrading to version 11, all of my notebooks now have cell frames are either missing the top or bottom part. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to fix this? Is this considered ... - asked by Michael McCain (7 votes), answered by MB1965 (5 votes) —————————- [How to speed up this code about a triple integral?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134477/how-to-speed-up-this-code-about-a-triple-integral How to speed up this code? It’s unbelievably slow!!! My solution with pen and paper is faster. Clear[R, h]; Integrate[ Integrate[ Integrate[1, {z, h, Sqrt[R^2 - x^2 - y^2]}, Assumptions -&gt; ... - asked by Mika Ike (7 votes), answered by corey979 (10 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[θ], r Sin[θ], r^2}, {r, 0, ... - asked by Matthew Leingang (89 votes), answered by Heike (75 votes) —————————- [Entering numbers in Scientific Notation?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/36792/entering-numbers-in-scientific-notation I need to play with a lot of powers such as 10^-3. 1E-3 does not work for it. Is there any short form for it? - asked by hhh (21 votes), answered by Rahul (30 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to specify halting states when using function TuringMachine?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134628/how-to-specify-halting-states-when-using-function-turingmachine The function TuringMachine generates a list that represents the evolution of a Turing Machine given a rule that specifies its behaviour (i.e. set of instructions). For example, the following rule ... - asked by Lili (4 votes) —————————- [Can I use Mathematica for the symbolic verification of cases of a general problem?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134515/can-i-use-mathematica-for-the-symbolic-verification-of-cases-of-a-general-proble I have never used Mathematica before, but I am contemplating using it to solve this problem for a simple case of and and . I can easily get , the Fourier transform of ... - asked by Rajesh Dachiraju (2 votes) —————————- [Antialiasing in Plot3D doesn’t work well] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134612/antialiasing-in-plot3d-doesnt-work-well My code is very simple: Style[Plot3D[Cos[x + 0*y], {x, -10, 10}, {y, -2, 42}, Mesh -&gt; None], Antialiasing -&gt; True] There seems some ripple on the top of the figure and I doubt whether it ... - asked by user29114 (1 vote) ### 54 Tuesday, December 27, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Partitioning a number into consecutive integers] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134252/partitioning-a-number-into-consecutive-integers Consider n=45; then Question: how to find all representations of a given positive integer n as a sum of ... - asked by corey979 (17 votes), answered by corey979 (19 votes) —————————- [Why is my GIF shaky?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134272/why-is-my-gif-shaky As you can see, the circles are shaking vertically as they approaching each other. Why is that? The code: g = Table[ Graphics[{Thickness[0.01], Table[{ Circle[{0 + x, 0}, r], ... - asked by Jason (13 votes), answered by Sumit (10 votes) —————————- [Can Mathematica edit large binary files in-place?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133973/can-mathematica-edit-large-binary-files-in-place I have a very large binary data file (several hundred GB) which I would like to edit using Mathematica. The only edits required are a few isolated byte replacements—no insertions or deletions. Is it ... - asked by David Zhang (12 votes) —————————- [Solving chess bishop problem] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134218/solving-chess-bishop-problem I have generalized the problem in this way where I have a list list=Tuples[Range[8],2] I want to find the largest sublist in which the addition of the two entries for any two elements of the ... - asked by m. bubu (10 votes), answered by ubpdqn (11 votes) —————————- [How to get such rule with a elegant method] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134227/how-to-get-such-rule-with-a-elegant-method I have two lists: list={{1,2,3,5},{5,3,9,11,12},{5,9,10,16}}; list2={{7,89},{96,5},{-6,-98}}; This is the expected result. {{1-&gt;{7,89},2-&gt;{7,89},3-&gt;{7,89},5-&gt;{7,89}}, ... - asked by yode (9 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (9 votes) —————————- [Pseudo-currying in one line] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134315/pseudo-currying-in-one-line Often when I’m writing OOP code using an object-manager association I find myself doing something akin to currying the arguments to some form of delegate object or head. (Building a one-argument ... - asked by MB1965 (8 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (8 votes) —————————- [How to create a multi-graphics plot (i.e. the decomposition of phase plane portrait) with well-organized structure?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134228/how-to-create-a-multi-graphics-plot-i-e-the-decomposition-of-phase-plane-portr Background I am trying to create a three-graphics plot using the command GraphicsGrid[] to show the decomposition of the phase plane portrait; unfortunately, the plot created is very ugly since the ... - asked by Liang.X (8 votes), answered by Sumit (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Finding Limits in several variables] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/21544/finding-limits-in-several-variables Is there a way to find a limit of a multivariable function, like with Mathematica? When is continuous, we can use ... - asked by Dominic Michaelis (21 votes), answered by whuber (32 votes) —————————- [Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3242/can-mathematica-do-symbolic-linear-algebra For instance, is there some way I can say ”let A and B be arbitrary real and matrices, Simplify[Transpose[Transpose[A].Transpose[B]]]” and Mathematica would simplify it to B.A? ... - asked by nikie (38 votes), answered by helen (19 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Graph that shows how symbols are used in an expression] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134180/graph-that-shows-how-symbols-are-used-in-an-expression I would like to make a graph to show how symbols build up an expression. For example, the matrix multiplication \left( \begin{array}{ccc} a &amp; b &amp; c \\ d &amp; e &amp; f \\ \end{array} ... - asked by ConvexMartian (4 votes) —————————- [Question about DynamicModule] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134063/question-about-dynamicmodule I have a such custom function: MyCopy := DynamicModule[{from, to}, Print@Grid[{{FileNameSetter[Dynamic[from], "Directory"], Dynamic[from]}, {FileNameSetter[Dynamic[to], "Directory"], ... - asked by yode (3 votes) —————————- [General solution of inscribed square problem] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/134237/general-solution-of-inscribed-square-problem There is my earlier question about Inscribed square problem Now I tried to find the general solution for any curve . For instance : ... - asked by vito (5 votes) ### 55 Tuesday, December 20, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How can I work with RawArray?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133666/how-can-i-work-with-rawarray RawArray seems to be able to efficiently hold integer and floating point data of various sizes. What is RawArray good for? How can we use it? - asked by Szabolcs (19 votes), answered by Szabolcs (15 votes) —————————- [Random points around the given curve] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133682/random-points-around-the-given-curve How to plot a random points around the following Helix curve? ParametricPlot3D[{6 Cos[t], 6 Sin[t], t}, {t, -2 π, 4 π}, PlotTheme -&gt; "Detailed", PlotStyle -&gt; {Blue, Thickness[Large]}, ... - asked by vito (14 votes), answered by J. M. (15 votes) —————————- [Intuition behind FoldPair and SequenceFold?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133625/intuition-behind-foldpair-and-sequencefold In trawling through the documentation I’ve found the functions FoldPairList and SequenceFoldList. Examples are given of how to use FoldPairList: Partition a list into sublists of different lengths ... - asked by pdmclean (12 votes), answered by andre (4 votes) —————————- [Product of two lists] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133723/product-of-two-lists Please, for the two lists: L1 := {{a, b}, {c, d}, {e, f}} L2 := {{g, h, i}, {j, k, q}} I need the result {{{a g, a h, a i}, {c g, c h, c i}, {e g, e h, e i}}, {{b j, b k, b q}, {d j, d k, d ... - asked by Ali (11 votes), answered by xzczd (13 votes) —————————- [Is there something similar to seaborn stripplot in mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133634/is-there-something-similar-to-seaborn-stripplot-in-mathematica Is there something similar to seaborn stripplot in mathematica? The graph I am trying to make is like this: - asked by Yordan (11 votes), answered by Brett Champion (12 votes) —————————- [Collapsible Tree] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133492/collapsible-tree Has somebody tried to program for data visualization an interactive Collapsible Tree like shown here: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4339083. This implements the Reingold-Tilford algorithm. ... - asked by mrz (8 votes) —————————- [FindDistributionParameters fails with custom distribution which cannot be evaluated symbolically] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133456/finddistributionparameters-fails-with-custom-distribution-which-cannot-be-evalua Context I am interested in measuring the dark energy equation of state of the universe while fitting the PDF of density in cells. This involves fitting a one parameter PDF to some data. Following ... - asked by chris (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How can I draw the Olympic rings with Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/8885/how-can-i-draw-the-olympic-rings-with-mathematica How can I draw the 5 interlocking Olympic rings with Mathematica? (SVG version) Edit Hard choice, but some pretty cool answers here. I didn’t have 3D answers in mind when I posted the question, ... - asked by Mike Honeychurch (42 votes), answered by cormullion (19 votes) —————————- [Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18/where-can-i-find-examples-of-good-mathematica-programming-practice I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ... - asked by J. M. (448 votes), answered by faysou (397 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Symbolic Weak Form] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133575/symbolic-weak-form Usually I write the weak form by hand for my FEM code, but it’s a little annoying and mechanic sometimes. So, I wonder, is there any way to generate the symbolic weak form in Mathematica? For ... - asked by senseiwa (5 votes) —————————- [Why is Minimize spinning?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133789/why-is-minimize-spinning The command Minimize[a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + a*b + b*c + a*c - (a + b - c)*Sqrt[2 a*b + b*c + a*c] - (b + c - a)* Sqrt[2 b*c + b*a + a*c] - (a + c - b)*Sqrt[2 a*c + a*b + b*c], a &gt;= 0 &amp;&amp; b ... - asked by user64494 (4 votes) —————————- [How to export an MXNet?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133857/how-to-export-an-mxnet I was hoping there was some way to generate the .params and .json file needed to define an MXNet model, from a network trained using NetTrain[] in Mathematica: I see these functions in the ... - asked by user5601 (5 votes) ### 56 Tuesday, December 13, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Query: adding additional operator changes meaning of preceding operators] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133124/query-adding-additional-operator-changes-meaning-of-preceding-operators Consider the following query: Range[5] // Query[Select[EvenQ] /* Append[1], f] (* {f[2], f[4], 1} *) It selects the even numbers, applies f to them and finally appends 1 to the list. As expected, ... - asked by WReach (15 votes), answered by WReach (15 votes) —————————- [Why does Mathematica think this series doesn’t converge?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132982/why-does-mathematica-think-this-series-doesnt-converge Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 11.0 (reported as CASE:3790525) Here’s a simple series: Sum[t^k DiscreteDelta[k]/k!,{k,0,Infinity}] Mathematica says that it doesn’t converge. But ... - asked by Ruslan (13 votes), answered by Jules Lamers (9 votes) —————————- [Joining two lists with relational operators] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132928/joining-two-lists-with-relational-operators I have two lists liste = {x, -y, y, -z} and listv = {1, -2, 3, -4}, which represent the inequities obtained evaluating liste - listv &lt;= 0. How do I reassemble or join those two separate lists into ... - asked by nanjun (13 votes), answered by Kuba (15 votes) —————————- [What assumptions do I need to make Mathematica integrate a function?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133052/what-assumptions-do-i-need-to-make-mathematica-integrate-a-function When I feed Mathematica the following integral: Integrate[Sqrt[(A - x) (B - x)/x], {x, 0, B}] it spits it back out without evaluating it. However, it can evaluate the integral Integrate[Sqrt[(2 - ... - asked by user45146 (11 votes), answered by Artes (12 votes) —————————- [Do Apple Watch + Mathematica integrations still work?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133358/do-apple-watch-mathematica-integrations-still-work I tried to follow this blog post: Instant Apps for Apple Watch, but none of the examples given worked, instead, they would simply hang on the ”loading” screen. Can anyone verify if this ... - asked by M.R. (9 votes) —————————- [Locate Start and End Positions of Repeated Sequences in a list] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133164/locate-start-and-end-positions-of-repeated-sequences-in-a-list ListA = 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 12, 12, 12, 14, 14, 14, 12, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, ... - asked by SPIL (8 votes), answered by Suba Thomas (5 votes) —————————- [How can I add noise to a neural network input?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133090/how-can-i-add-noise-to-a-neural-network-input A common ”trick” in neural network training is to train an autoencoder using a ”degraded” sample as input and the original sample as target output. The layer type DropoutLayer[] is made for this ... - asked by nikie (8 votes), answered by nikie (5 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3242/can-mathematica-do-symbolic-linear-algebra For instance, is there some way I can say ”let A and B be arbitrary real and matrices, Simplify[Transpose[Transpose[A].Transpose[B]]]” and Mathematica would simplify it to B.A? ... - asked by nikie (38 votes), answered by helen (19 votes) —————————- [Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29203/calculate-the-2d-fourier-transform-of-an-image I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0. I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase spectrum, as well as reconstruct the ... - asked by user8727 (5 votes), answered by Nasser (27 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Mathematica script, called from Windows task scheduler, does not export graphics] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133075/mathematica-script-called-from-windows-task-scheduler-does-not-export-graphics When I run the following script from command line, Needs["JLink"]; ConnectToFrontEnd[]; resultChart = UseFrontEnd[JuliaSetPlot[0.365 - 0.37 I]]; UseFrontEnd[Export["test.png", resultChart]]; ... - asked by Karsten W. (2 votes) —————————- [Is it possible to do matrix algebra symbolically?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132955/is-it-possible-to-do-matrix-algebra-symbolically I’m reading a book that has the following theorem: I am trying to make Mathematica perform these calculations for me. Is it possible to do it without having to declare the matrices? For ... - asked by Oppa Hilbert Style (2 votes) —————————- [Making graphic objects disappear interactively] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/133256/making-graphic-objects-disappear-interactively I am trying to create a program where dots on a plane disappear when an object passes over them. I am using EventHandler to code the arrow keys for control of the object. I want each dot to ... - asked by Savannah S (1 vote) ### 57 Tuesday, December 6, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to find arXiv articles] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132685/how-to-find-arxiv-articles I found at Twitter that is possible to search for arXiv articles with Mathematica: E.g. the following code: arXiv = ServiceConnect["ArXiv"]; articles = arXiv["Search", {"Query" -&gt; ... - asked by mrz (16 votes), answered by user21 (11 votes) —————————- A crucial step in self-driving car is to detect lane lines. I’m wondering whether this can be achieved robustly using Mathematica’s rich image processing tools. For example how can I take camera ... - asked by xslittlegrass (14 votes), answered by nikie (14 votes) —————————- [Neural Network for polynomial fit] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132546/neural-network-for-polynomial-fit I’m trying to build up a neural network with Mathematica 11.0, that should fit data which behaves like a polynom of third order. I thought that an NN with one or two hidden layers can fit any ... - asked by A.Zachl (12 votes), answered by nikie (9 votes) —————————- [How to make notebooks suitable for the Documentation Center?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132392/how-to-make-notebooks-suitable-for-the-documentation-center Normally, documentation meant to be integrated into the Documentation Center is built from special source notebooks. According to the Workbench documentation, it should also be possible to use ... - asked by Szabolcs (12 votes), answered by jkuczm (5 votes) —————————- [Largest palindrome from given string] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132834/largest-palindrome-from-given-string Someone recently posted a request on LinkedIn for an algorithm to find the largest palindrome from a given string. I came up with this, which I believe does the trick, but I am wondering if there ... - asked by Jonathan Kinlay (10 votes), answered by Kuba (10 votes) —————————- [Why Function is not identical to &` in autocompilation?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132656/why-function-is-not-identical-to-in-autocompilation Here is the example, copied from here square = Function[x, x^2]; square1 = #^2 &amp;; the timing and unpacking status shows data = RandomReal[0, 10, 10000]; ... - asked by matheorem (10 votes), answered by m_goldberg (4 votes) —————————- [Analytic solution to Newtonian gravity differential equation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132875/analytic-solution-to-newtonian-gravity-differential-equation I was told that I could obtain an analytic solution to a particle falling under the influence of Newtonian gravity by using DSolveValue. What I am given is a point mass at ... - asked by Joe (9 votes), answered by Kagaratsch (9 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Unit Discovery: Is this some sort of a sick joke?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124745/unit-discovery-is-this-some-sort-of-a-sick-joke Alright, let’s have some fun here. I am essentially following the documentation by Wolfram, just looking at different quantities. N[UnitConvert[Quantity["earth's gravity"]]] 9.80665m/(s)^2 Hmm, ... - asked by Pirx (30 votes), answered by xavier (30 votes) —————————- [How can Mathematica be used to create images like these?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/118992/how-can-mathematica-be-used-to-create-images-like-these Here are two examples of artistic image interpolation using just black lines: TRIANGULATION: ANGULAR CELEBRITIES DRAWN WITH A PEN Interpolation for Triangulation-represented Digital Image The ... - asked by R Hall (28 votes), answered by MarcoB (29 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to find a value to make function positive and real?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132883/how-to-find-a-value-to-make-function-positive-and-real Let x=(((-3 + r) r^2 + a^2 (1 + r)) Csc[θ])/(a (-1 + r)) y=Sqrt[(a^2 (a^2 (1 + r)^2 + 2 r^2 (-3 + r^2)) + a^4 (-1 + r)^2 Cos[θ]^2 - ((-3 + r) r^2 + a^2 (1 + r))^2 Csc[θ]^2)/(a^2 (-1 + r)^2)] ... - asked by MrDi (1 vote) —————————- [Creating an automatic code feedback for class] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132880/creating-an-automatic-code-feedback-for-class I’m trying to create a server application that accepts uploaded Mathematica files (that follow a certain API), then run a few tests on modules defined within those files. This is for a course where ... - asked by michael99man (1 vote) —————————- [Nontrivial background removal] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132844/nontrivial-background-removal I have an image of a product on a poorly made green screen and need to segment out just the product: The problem is that it contains a mirror, so simple color-based methods are not enough. I tried ... - asked by M.R. (4 votes) ### 58 Tuesday, November 29, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [PacletInfo.m documentation project] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132064/pacletinfo-m-documentation-project Packages can be made into paclets, which provides easy distribution and versioning. The paclet metadata is in the PacletInfo.m file. The PacletInfo settings also determine how the paclet can extend ... - asked by Szabolcs (25 votes), answered by Szabolcs (22 votes) —————————- [Replace custom functions, leave built in functions untouched?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131938/replace-custom-functions-leave-built-in-functions-untouched I have three expressions a[x, y], b[x, y], c[x, y] that act as placeholders for functions of two variables x,y. Consider the following substitution: a[x, y]/(b[x, y] c[x, y]) /. f_[x1_, y1_] :&gt; ... - asked by Kagaratsch (16 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (18 votes) —————————- [Why CompilationTarget -¿ C is slower than directly writing with C?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132130/why-compilationtarget-c-is-slower-than-directly-writing-with-c Probably a hard question, but I think it’s better to cry out loud. I’ve hesitated for a while about whether I should post this in StackOverflow with a c tag or not, but finally decide to keep it ... - asked by xzczd (15 votes), answered by Albert Retey (11 votes) —————————- [Detecting kernel initialization] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132212/detecting-kernel-initialization Certain operations do not work during kernel initialization. Code from Kernel/init.m, the Autoload directory, or packages set to autoload may evaluate at initialization time. Is there a way to ... - asked by Szabolcs (12 votes), answered by Szabolcs (10 votes) —————————- [How can I change the default file type for ”Save Selection As”] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132224/how-can-i-change-the-default-file-type-for-save-selection-as When using the menu item File - Save Selection As, the default file type is PDF. Is there any way to change the default to something else, for example PNG? - asked by Simon Woods (12 votes), answered by Mike Honeychurch (13 votes) —————————- [How to obtain the ViewPoint] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132228/how-to-obtain-the-viewpoint Normally, I used ViewPoint in the code in Plot3D. Most of the time, I will use mouse to rotate the 3D object to get a better view point. The problem is, when I find the best view point for me, is ... - asked by Qi Zhong (12 votes), answered by Jack LaVigne (14 votes) —————————- [Wonky Solutions to Schrödinger Equation with Box Barrier] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131854/wonky-solutions-to-schr%C3%B6dinger-equation-with-box-barrier I’m trying to solve the Schrödinger equation using NDSolve in a case where there is a potential box barrier. The initial condition is a cosine wave, and for boundary conditions I require that the ... - asked by Buddhapus (8 votes), answered by xzczd (4 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3242/can-mathematica-do-symbolic-linear-algebra For instance, is there some way I can say ”let A and B be arbitrary real and matrices, Simplify[Transpose[Transpose[A].Transpose[B]]]” and Mathematica would simplify it to B.A? ... - asked by nikie (35 votes), answered by helen (18 votes) —————————- [How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66273/how-to-tell-mathematica-that-certain-variables-are-real-imaginary-integer-value I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations by running them through Mathematica. Expectation values and stuff like that. When I say, for example, u[x_] := Sqrt[2/L] * Sin[Pi * n * x / ... - asked by Matthew Brunetti (9 votes), answered by SquareOne (7 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Is it possible to change the text cursor’s shape and color?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132322/is-it-possible-to-change-the-text-cursors-shape-and-color I find it visually pleasant to reverse the background and foreground colors when working on a notebook; as shown below, in fact, it’s almost a requirement after working long hours on the same ... - asked by Jerome Ibanes (1 vote) —————————- [FindClusters doesn’t accept custom DistanceFunction] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132287/findclusters-doesnt-accept-custom-distancefunction I have a problem with using custom DistanceFunction in FindClusters. To make the issue as simple as possible, consider clustering odd &amp; even numbers in the following way: ... - asked by ahrvoje (6 votes) —————————- [FrameLabel is Broken for ArrayPlot and MatrixPlot] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132008/framelabel-is-broken-for-arrayplot-and-matrixplot In version 11.0.1 the documentation for FrameLabel states its format is left, right, bottom, top However, it appears that this is not the case for MatrixPlot. ... - asked by Edmund (5 votes) ### 59 Tuesday, November 22, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Create the source image for this cool animated illusion] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131644/create-the-source-image-for-this-cool-animated-illusion Have a look at this very awesome video: You have a vertically discretized image, which is composed of 5 or 6 images, which are shifted by an increment, as ... - asked by DoHe (22 votes), answered by corey979 (25 votes) —————————- [Restarting Mathematica automatically] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131573/restarting-mathematica-automatically I run a large computation in a loop. At each cycle of the loop I produce large arrays that I save on a disk. At each cycle I would like to Quit Mathematica and then restart automatically, loading ... - asked by Vadim (15 votes), answered by Szabolcs (14 votes) —————————- [How to handle package dependencies?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131567/how-to-handle-package-dependencies When an application written in C++ depends on some libraries, the libraries are usually shipped together with the application. Two applications that depend on the same library will not share the same ... - asked by Szabolcs (11 votes), answered by Kuba (3 votes) —————————- [How to sample many points below a curve?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131755/how-to-sample-many-points-below-a-curve I have plotted the curve, and I wanted to take 1000 points in the shaded area uniformly. How can I make it? Plot[1/π Cos[θ]^2, {θ, 0, 2 π}, Filling -&gt; Bottom] - asked by ZHANG Juenjie (10 votes), answered by bbgodfrey (11 votes) —————————- [how to style multi-value interpolation function plot?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131516/how-to-style-multi-value-interpolation-function-plot Is there a cleaner way to apply different styles to the different channels of a multi value interpolation function? here is a 2-output interpolation function: f = Interpolation[Table[ {x, N@{Sin[x], ... - asked by george2079 (10 votes), answered by Michael E2 (7 votes) —————————- [Backtesting a Probability of Default (PD) model] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131347/backtesting-a-probability-of-default-pd-model Background PD models Financial institutions use Probability of Default (PD) models for various purposes such as client acceptance, provisioning and regulatory capital calculation as required by the ... - asked by Sjoerd C. de Vries (10 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (14 votes) —————————- [Display bug in Dataset’s UnitConvert handling] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131332/display-bug-in-datasets-unitconvert-handling Bug introduced in 11.0.1 (or possibly 11.0.0) Is this yet another annoying regression in v11 Dataset type handling? The display form seems to be a formatting bug: The numerator and denominator of ... - asked by alancalvitti (10 votes), answered by WReach (4 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]], r Sin[\[Theta]], ... - asked by Matthew Leingang (85 votes), answered by Heike (74 votes) —————————- [How to create a new ”person curve”?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17704/how-to-create-a-new-person-curve Wolfram—Alpha has a whole collection¹ of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha[”person curve”] into a Mathematica notebook, or person curve into ... - asked by Simon (61 votes), answered by Vitaliy Kaurov (30 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Unix-like reference to parent and root Association?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131337/unix-like-reference-to-parent-and-root-association Is there a syntax or function to reference parent and root when querying nested Associations similar to Unix' ".." and "/", eg "cd ../../mydir". ? Here’s a typical application of the root ... - asked by alancalvitti (3 votes) —————————- [Strange behaviour of FullSimplify when checking an equality of SparseArray’s] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131400/strange-behaviour-of-fullsimplify-when-checking-an-equality-of-sparsearrays I stumbled upon the following strange behaviour. Disclaimer: I present the simplest instance that I could find in which some behaviour occurs that I first noticed in a different, more complicated ... - asked by Jules Lamers (1 vote) —————————- [ListPlot PlotRange Ignored with all Missing or empty data] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131321/listplot-plotrange-ignored-with-all-missing-or-empty-data I have a function that uses ListPlot to draw a custom plot. When a data value is not applicable I pass in Missing to prevent ListPlot and its Prolog option from displaying the point the function will ... - asked by Edmund (3 votes) ### 60 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Why (and when) does pattern matching with f[__] perform MUCH more quickly than _f?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130984/why-and-when-does-pattern-matching-with-f-perform-much-more-quickly-than Consider this expression in Mathematica 10.3 (and above) on MacOS X: expr = a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t myG[u] myF[a, b] Now compare the time it takes to apply the following ... - asked by QuantumDot (22 votes), answered by WReach (17 votes) —————————- [Getting wrong limit with Bessel] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130741/getting-wrong-limit-with-bessel I computed a following limit (related to the asymptotic expansion of the sequence A000009 - number of partitions of n into distinct parts) Expand[Limit[(((π BesselI[1, (Sqrt[1/24 + n] ... - asked by Vaclav Kotesovec (11 votes), answered by Akku14 (9 votes) —————————- [Join lists by observing x-value] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130903/join-lists-by-observing-x-value Hi everybody I have as a small test with two datasets (normally I have 100 datasets with 4100 brackets): Dataset1={{20,1},{30, 1.3}, {40, 0.4}, {50, 0.9}} Dataset2={{30, 1.2}, {40, 1}, {50, 0.4}, ... - asked by Jacccy (10 votes), answered by ubpdqn (13 votes) —————————- [How to distribute Mathematica packages as paclets?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131101/how-to-distribute-mathematica-packages-as-paclets Mathematica does have a nice package manager. Packages are called paclets, and they can be managed using the functions from the PacletManager‘ context. How can I package up my own packages as ... - asked by Szabolcs (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (7 votes) —————————- [Does function call via @ ignore HoldFirst attribute?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130889/does-function-call-via-ignore-holdfirst-attribute I was trying to test whether using func[x,y] is the same as func[#,y]&amp;@x: SetAttributes[test, HoldFirst] test[1 + 2 - 3, 5 - 5] test[#, 5 - 5] &amp;@(1 + 2 - 3) test[1 + 2 - 3, 0] ... - asked by Ruslan (8 votes), answered by m_goldberg (9 votes) —————————- [Graph visualization: Leave gap between vertex and endpoint of edge] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130821/graph-visualization-leave-gap-between-vertex-and-endpoint-of-edge This is a nice graph: g = CycleGraph[4]; Graph[g, VertexCoordinates -&gt; {{0, 0}, {0, 1}, {1, 1}, {1, 0}}, VertexLabels -&gt; Placed["Name", Center], VertexSize -&gt; Medium, EdgeShapeFunction ... - asked by cyrille.piatecki (8 votes), answered by kglr (12 votes) —————————- [Help finding the centre of a faint, incomplete circle?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130787/help-finding-the-centre-of-a-faint-incomplete-circle so I found a program in the answers to this question that I thought was brilliant, so here it is applied to my situation: I have the image and here’s the code: ... - asked by Mason (8 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How can Mathematica be used to create images like these?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/118992/how-can-mathematica-be-used-to-create-images-like-these Here are two examples of artistic image interpolation using just black lines: TRIANGULATION: ANGULAR CELEBRITIES DRAWN WITH A PEN Interpolation for Triangulation-represented Digital Image The ... - asked by R Hall (28 votes), answered by MarcoB (29 votes) —————————- [How do you make a Neural Net?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/123458/how-do-you-make-a-neural-net In the new Mathematica release (v11), NeuralNetworks is one of the new main features. However, the documentation isn’t that clear on what function should be used in a Net. The documentation on ... - asked by JHM (22 votes), answered by Searke (24 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Understanding the structure of an InterpolatingFunction] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131063/understanding-the-structure-of-an-interpolatingfunction FunctionInterpolation[x^2, {x, 0, 9}] // InputForm returns: InterpolatingFunction[ 0., 9., 5, 3, 0, 13, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, Automatic, , , False, 0., 0.75, 1.5, 2.25, 3., 3.75, ... - asked by anderstood (1 vote) —————————- [Is it possible to create .stp 3D model from Graphics3D?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130883/is-it-possible-to-create-stp-3d-model-from-graphics3d I want to create some 3D solid model by Mathematica, and then export it into stp (step) format for further finite element or finite volume analysis in Fluent/ANSYS or Abaqus. But so far to me, it ... - asked by user6043040 (3 votes) —————————- [Time constrained loop unit] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131159/time-constrained-loop-unit I have a particularly difficult loop, in that it consists of two variables looping and sowing the result if a criteria is met. Overall it works for me, but some certain values for my variables take ... - asked by Castle (2 votes) ### 61 Tuesday, November 8, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [For a better animation of the solution from NDSolve] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130502/for-a-better-animation-of-the-solution-from-ndsolve I obtained a numerical solution from the following code with NDSolve L = 20; tmax = 27; \[Sigma] = 2; myfun = First[h /. NDSolve[{D[h[x, y, t], t] + Div[h[x, y, t]^3*Grad[Laplacian[h[x, y, t], {x, ... - asked by jsxs (12 votes), answered by Nasser (14 votes) —————————- [A puzzling result of ”FullSimplify”] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130606/a-puzzling-result-of-fullsimplify When I input: FullSimplify[(1 - a^2)/b^2, a^2 + b^2 == 1] the result is the ideal answer 1； However，if I input: FullSimplify[(1 - b^2)/a^2, a^2 + b^2 == 1] the result is (1 - b^2)/a^2 ... - asked by dabuyang (11 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (7 votes) —————————- [ImageFeatureTrack or ImageDisplacements to measure average object velocities in images] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130391/imagefeaturetrack-or-imagedisplacements-to-measure-average-object-velocities-in I have as example a set of 30 gray scale images (8bit, 568*478 pixels, they are avalable here: http://tinyurl.com/zckyv9w where bright objects on dark background move from image to image mainly ... - asked by mrz (9 votes), answered by Simon Woods (10 votes) —————————- [Documentation Tools: Don’t put web URL in user package docs] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130515/documentation-tools-dont-put-web-url-in-user-package-docs I am exploring the Workbench documentation tools for the first time and one of the difficulties I encountered was that every generated (compiled) documentation page includes weblinks. These point to ... - asked by Szabolcs (9 votes) —————————- [How to make plots ’blacker’?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130471/how-to-make-plots-blacker I need to make a contour plot for publication, but even if I set ContourStyle-&gt;Black, the 'black' plots and the axes are very faint. When I export the figure in svg and open it in some ... - asked by Physicist (9 votes), answered by Michael E2 (10 votes) —————————- [How to specify algebraic relations between objects?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130258/how-to-specify-algebraic-relations-between-objects so I’m wanting to screw around a bit with Geometric Algebra in Mathematica. To start, I want to create some basis objects: and then specify the relations between them which are - asked by Mason (9 votes), answered by march (9 votes) —————————- [Crack it If you Can? BUT in the BEST way] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130566/crack-it-if-you-can-but-in-the-best-way From the Wolfram Community: Hello everyone, A little while ago I was asked to solve this ”safe cracker” puzzle, a sweet example of a coffee table puzzle. The basic gist of this puzzle is that it ... - asked by Youphyso (8 votes), answered by george2079 (4 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Writing a word with straight lines] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/113403/writing-a-word-with-straight-lines Here is an interesting way to write a word: (it is from a poster for the International Museum Day 2006; I believe it even won an award at an international design competition) by Boris Ljubicic. ... - asked by VividD (72 votes), answered by Anton Antonov (34 votes) —————————- [Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18/where-can-i-find-examples-of-good-mathematica-programming-practice I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ... - asked by J. M. (441 votes), answered by faysou (396 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Passing boolean parameters to a .NET Method using NETLink] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130658/passing-boolean-parameters-to-a-net-method-using-netlink According to the NETLink documentation, NETLink automatically handles type conversions from Mathematica to a .NET dll. One of the issues I have is that the .NET method I want to use expects a Boolean ... - asked by user39464 (1 vote) —————————- [ParametricPlot3D Self Intersection] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130460/parametricplot3d-self-intersection I would like to know where my ParametricPlot3D intersects itself and to extract all intersections (points, lines, surfaces...) to animate them by changing P: ParametricPlot3D[{fX[u,v,P], fY[u,v,P], ... - asked by chkone (3 votes) —————————- [Faster solution to combinatorial problem of two-part contractions] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130598/faster-solution-to-combinatorial-problem-of-two-part-contractions Given a list of elements I need all possible pairings of elements with a leading factor that describes the number of permutations. A (ugly but) working version would be: list = {a, b, c, d}; res = ... - asked by pbx (2 votes) ### 62 Tuesday, November 1, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Huge bug involving MultinormalDistribution?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129916/huge-bug-involving-multinormaldistribution Bug introduced in 8.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.0.1 I found a strange behavior regarding the CDF of the bivariate Normal distribution ... - asked by fwgb (21 votes), answered by Eric Towers (19 votes) —————————- [GeoDistance - higher spatial resolution / precision?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130044/geodistance-higher-spatial-resolution-precision I’m having a small problem with GeoDistance. I’ve chosen a target city – San Francisco – and I’ve computed distances from SF to five other cities. Then I draw circles around each city, with radius ... - asked by ConvexMartian (9 votes), answered by jose (4 votes) —————————- [How to extract the first dimension in TimeSeries?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129836/how-to-extract-the-first-dimension-in-timeseries I want to extract the first dimension in TimeSeries，for example: So I use this code: data = Normal@AudioLocalMeasurements[ExampleData[{"Audio", "PianoScale"}],"MFCC"]; Thread[{data[[All, 1]], ... - asked by partida (9 votes), answered by kglr (6 votes) —————————- [How to recover Pauli matrices properties in Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129799/how-to-recover-pauli-matrices-properties-in-mathematica I want to do a cross or dot product involving a vector of Pauli matrices σ=(σ1,σ2,σ3); for example, σxσ=2iσ or σ.σ=3I. Is there a simple way to do these operations? - asked by user3654016 (8 votes), answered by corey979 (10 votes) —————————- [Flatten sublists within a bigger list] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130011/flatten-sublists-within-a-bigger-list Really sorry if this question is a duplicate. I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. Here is a list I have: {{{0. + 0.1875 I, 0. + 0.105469 I, 0. + 0.03125 I, 0. + 0.00390625 I, 0. + ... - asked by jrekier (7 votes), answered by Edmund (6 votes) —————————- [7-dimensional cross product] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129863/7-dimensional-cross-product How to define a 7-dimensional cross product?\begin{aligned}\mathbf {x} \times \mathbf {y} =(x_{2}y_{4}-x_{4}y_{2}+x_{3}y_{7}-x_{7}y_{3}+x_{5}y_{6}-x_{6}y_{5})\,&amp;\mathbf {e} ... - asked by corey979 (7 votes), answered by Sumit (4 votes) —————————- [How to draw a clock-diagram?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129960/how-to-draw-a-clock-diagram I found a clock-diagram in a paper, so I would like to draw it in Mathematica. The main trouble for me is the corresponding line segments on the circle. I would let the data1 lie the outside on the ... - asked by user123 (7 votes), answered by Feyre (7 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How can Mathematica be used to create images like these?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/118992/how-can-mathematica-be-used-to-create-images-like-these Here are two examples of artistic image interpolation using just black lines: TRIANGULATION: ANGULAR CELEBRITIES DRAWN WITH A PEN Interpolation for Triangulation-represented Digital Image The ... - asked by R Hall (28 votes), answered by MarcoB (29 votes) —————————- [How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66273/how-to-tell-mathematica-that-certain-variables-are-real-imaginary-integer-value I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations by running them through Mathematica. Expectation values and stuff like that. When I say, for example, u[x_] := Sqrt[2/L] * Sin[Pi * n * x / ... - asked by Matthew Brunetti (8 votes), answered by SquareOne (6 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [How to Inset a legend in GeoGraphics with Scaled LegendMarkerSize?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/130060/how-to-inset-a-legend-in-geographics-with-scaled-legendmarkersize I have a GeoGraphics where I am using Scaled in PointSize to include size information. I want to Inset a PointLegend that describes the sizes of the points. Outside of GeoGraphics I can do this by ... - asked by Edmund (2 votes) —————————- [NumberLinePlot with Exponential] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129938/numberlineplot-with-exponential I have: Clear[f, x] f[x_] = Exp[1/x] Now, the question is "where is the derivative negative?" I managed to get the Reduce command to work by adding Reals. Reduce[f'[x] &lt; 0, x, Reals] Which ... - asked by David (3 votes) —————————- [Detect numbers on the image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129821/detect-numbers-on-the-image How to detect numbers on the following image I tried: img=Import["http://imgur.com/TDbn7sB.png"] set = ImagePartition[img, Scaled[{1/20, 1/5}]] // Flatten then I tried Classify[] but it ... - asked by vito (3 votes) ### 63 Tuesday, October 25, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [How to improve this plot?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129426/how-to-improve-this-plot In general, the quality of Mathematica graphics is beyond praise. However, the output of Plot3D command is somewhat unexpected in the following code. Let’s solve the Dirichlet problem for the ... - asked by user64494 (11 votes), answered by Simon Woods (16 votes) —————————- [Neural Networks: Does Mathematica (v11) experimental code support state-of-art Models?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129469/neural-networks-does-mathematica-v11-experimental-code-support-state-of-art-m Mathematica made a big step implementing Neural Networks. I checked some examples for deep learning (ChainNet), also the related link. I see that model structures such as LaNet can be developed. ... - asked by s.s.o (10 votes), answered by Alexey Golyshev (8 votes) —————————- [Converting Game of Life images to lists] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129135/converting-game-of-life-images-to-lists I want to convert images of GoL configurations into binary matrices to run in Mathematica’s CellularAutomaton. I know that there’s a collection of GoL patterns in http://conwaylife.com and other ... - asked by andandandand (10 votes), answered by C. E. (5 votes) —————————- [JDBC-to-ODBC bridge gone. How to connect to SQL Server now in case of Windows Authentication?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129160/jdbc-to-odbc-bridge-gone-how-to-connect-to-sql-server-now-in-case-of-windows-au Connecting to our corporate SQL servers using JDBC never worked for me, perhaps related to the Windows Authentication method that is necessary in our network. However, I found out that configuring the ... - asked by Sjoerd C. de Vries (8 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (6 votes) —————————- [How to speed up calculations on big symbolic matrices?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129465/how-to-speed-up-calculations-on-big-symbolic-matrices this is my first time posting something on a community of the StackExchange platform, so please feel free to correct me if I’m doing something wrong. :) Additionally you should probably know that I’m ... - asked by TSwift (8 votes) —————————- [How do I ’Join’ two Structured Datasets?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129116/how-do-i-join-two-structured-datasets Consider the following Datasets dsCompetitions with fields ”id”,”name”,”eventTypeId” dsEventTypes with fields ”id”, ”name” I want to join the datasets as follows using SQL pseudocode: SELECT ... - asked by nilo de roock (8 votes), answered by rcollyer (7 votes) —————————- [Why isn’t Orderless an Attribute of And?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129415/why-isnt-orderless-an-attribute-of-and In standard logic And is a commutative operator. Still, in Mathematica, And doesn’t have the Orderless attribute: Attributes[And] (* {Flat,HoldAll,OneIdentity,Protected} *) This may have not been ... - asked by Soldalma (7 votes), answered by JHM (6 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [Programming the fiver game] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/120959/programming-the-fiver-game Obviously, even if I ask a lot of question I am, obviously, still a dummy!!!! I want to program the fiver game. It’s a very simple game played solitary on a the rule is elementary : if ... - asked by cyrille.piatecki (12 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (19 votes) —————————- [How to make an inkblot?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3345/how-to-make-an-inkblot How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.’s Rorschach demonstration): RandomBlot[num_, opts___] := ... - asked by István Zachar (83 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (46 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Counting the occurences of entries in a dataset columnwise] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129459/counting-the-occurences-of-entries-in-a-dataset-columnwise Consider a dataset with some rows and considerably less columns (eg something like 10x3). Assume that the contents of the dataset cells are integers from some conveniently chosen range (eg 1 through ... - asked by user42582 (1 vote) —————————- [List, Association, and Dataset, according to what principles to choose which one to use?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129081/list-association-and-dataset-according-to-what-principles-to-choose-which-one List, Association and Dataset are three ’objects’ that can be used to store data in MMA. So when or under what conditions for one to decide to use each of them? - asked by Alexander Zeng (2 votes) —————————- [How to ArrayFlatten some matrix which have repeated element] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129153/how-to-arrayflatten-some-matrix-which-have-repeated-element I have many such matrices(whose dimension are all 3*3.) like: list1={{0,3,0},{4,1,2},{0,5,0}}; list2={{0,6,0},{1,2,8},{0,7,0}}; list3={{0,1,0},{9,5,7},{0,11,0}}; list4={{0,2,0},{5,7,10},{0,12,0}}; ... - asked by yode (3 votes) ### 64 Tuesday, October 18, 2016 ================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Why removing a function and defining it on the same line does not work?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128818/why-removing-a-function-and-defining-it-on-the-same-line-does-not-work Why do the two pieces of code below yield rather different results? The only difference is that in the first one the function definition is in the same line as the Remove command while in the second ... - asked by Fernando Saldanha (17 votes), answered by dan7geo (16 votes) —————————- [House of Santa Claus] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128741/house-of-santa-claus The house of Santa Claus is an old German drawing game for small children. You have to draw a house in one line. You must not lift your pencil while drawing.\color{red}{\text{You must not repeat a  ...

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[how to get cell boundaries in the image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128596/how-to-get-cell-boundaries-in-the-image

I have a microscope image of some animal tissue and wish to get the contours for all the cells that are present in the image. the cells are connected to the neighbouring cells via these contours. At ...

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[Numerically solve the initial value problem for the 1-D wave equation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128516/numerically-solve-the-initial-value-problem-for-the-1-d-wave-equation

I want to solve the standard 1-dimensional wave equation using NDSolve (for ) with the following conditions:

cond1 = Piecewise[{{1 - Abs[x - 1], Abs[x - 1] &lt; 1}, {0, Abs[x  ...

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[Dataset Processing: efficient ways to clean and merge sets for Life Sciences] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128519/dataset-processing-efficient-ways-to-clean-and-merge-sets-for-life-sciences

Dataset Processing (for Life Sciences)

Note: a related, but distinct task is posted here ID Swapping: Efficient use of a reference table to convert ID values.

A common task, at least for me, ...

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[Rotations of a number] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128666/rotations-of-a-number

If we start with a number like 1234 and produce the following sum 1234 + 123 + 12 + 1 = 1370.

If we are given the 1370 can I retrieve the 1234? A similar question was migrated over to the Math.SE ...

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[What’s wrong with the Sum function?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128534/whats-wrong-with-the-sum-function

Here are the codes:

f[n_]:=Sum[1,{K,0,n},{M,0,n-K},{La,0,K},{Lb,0,n-K-M},{Lc,0,M}]//Simplify

g[n_]:=Sum[1,{La,0,n},{Lb,0,n-La},{Lc,0,n-La-Lb},{K,La,n-Lb},{M,Lc,n-K-Lb}]//Simplify

f[x]/.x-&gt;5

...

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[Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4025/creating-legends-for-plots-with-multiple-lines

So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g.

data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .}

If I then do ListLinePlot[Table[{#1,Log[b,#2]}&amp;@@@data, {b,1,10,2}]] I have
no way to generate a legend  ...

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[Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]], r Sin[\[Theta]],  ...

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[Parallelizing code, any tips?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128905/parallelizing-code-any-tips

I have access to a Linux cluster and I’m trying to use Parallelize to run the above bellow faster, but whenever I try to place Parallelize in any other parts, besides the loop, where I think it may ...

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[Does Reduce have problems with greek symbols that lead to wrong results?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128965/does-reduce-have-problems-with-greek-symbols-that-lead-to-wrong-results

I call Reduce on the following simple system of inequalities

e = ((-4 + Sqrt[(-2 + λ)^2] + 3 λ) Log[p] + 4 λ Log[β])/(2 λ);
Reduce[e &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; 1 &gt; λ &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; 1 &gt; p &gt; 0  ...

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[Full screen image in slideshow?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128875/full-screen-image-in-slideshow

Is it possible to make an image fill up and entire slide in a slideshow notebook so that there are no cell brackets or any white space around it at all (when viewed in presentation mode of course)?

- asked by M.R. (1 vote)

### 65 Tuesday, October 11, 2016

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[How to programmatically play an Audio object?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128147/how-to-programmatically-play-an-audio-object

A Sound object can be programmatically played using EmitSound. Example:

snd = ExampleData[{"Sound", "AltoFlute"}];

Button["Play!", EmitSound[snd]]

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[TreePlot does not give a ”binary-looking” tree for a binary tree] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128323/treeplot-does-not-give-a-binary-looking-tree-for-a-binary-tree

I use the following code to generate a binary tree with root 1.

TreePlot[{1 -&gt; 2, 1 -&gt; 3, 2 -&gt; 4, 2 -&gt; 5, 3 -&gt; 6, 3 -&gt; 7, 4 -&gt; 8,
4 -&gt; 9, 5 -&gt; 10, 5 -&gt; 11, 6 -&gt;  ...

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[Partition array without unpacking] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128133/partition-array-without-unpacking

What is the simplest way to partition a list into equal-length sublists, allow the last sublist to be shorter of necessary, and avoid unpacking?

Partition doesn’t usually unpack:

arr = RandomReal[1,  ...

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[Creating a simple Dock Cell that Fades In when Cursor Hover Over It] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128025/creating-a-simple-dock-cell-that-fades-in-when-cursor-hover-over-it

I like to create dock cells, that enhance the look of my notebooks. Do you know of a simple way to get the functionality in iBooks shown below in the video. I want the dock cell in Mathematica to ...

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[Why are Exp[3] and 2 treated differently within Complex?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128211/why-are-exp3-and-2-treated-differently-within-complex

Why doesn’t the last command below split the complex number into its real and imaginary parts?

Complex[2,2]
(* 2 + 2 I *)
Complex[N[Exp[3]], N[Exp[3]]]
(* 20.0855 + 20.0855 I *)
...

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[KeyDrop does not respect Key in V11] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128171/keydrop-does-not-respect-key-in-v11

KeyDrop[&lt;|a -&gt; 1|&gt;, Key[a]]

&lt;|a -&gt; 1|&gt;

KeyTake[&lt;|a -&gt; 1|&gt;, Key[a]]

&lt;||&gt;

closely related but not the same: Unexpected behavior of KeyTake

Are there any ...

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[Strategies for creating 3D text] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128412/strategies-for-creating-3d-text

I am interested in using Mathematica to create 3D text for printing. I stumbled upon this answer which works very well in a slightly modified form:

text3D[text_String, mult_] := ListPlot3D[
...

================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================

[Is it possible to export the equations from Mathematica to MATLAB?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/14035/is-it-possible-to-export-the-equations-from-mathematica-to-matlab

Is it possible to export the output expressions from Mathematica computations (e.g., equations) in valid MATLAB syntax?

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[Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica

I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad.

Is ...

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[Help: Reclassify] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128194/help-reclassify

Is it possible to improve the current ClassifierFunction with more training data without running the previous training again?

In this way i will be able to deal with very large datasets in chunks.

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[Pattern matching problem in version 11.01] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/128247/pattern-matching-problem-in-version-11-01

Consider this simple example:

p1 = ListPlot3D[
Table[Sin[j^2 + i], {i, 0, Pi, Pi/5}, {j, 0, Pi, Pi/5}],
Mesh -&gt; None, Axes -&gt; False, Boxed -&gt; False, ColorFunction -&gt; Hue];
p2 =  ...

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I am trying to learn CUDA and start from the help examples.
It turnes out that CPU calculation is much faster for
matrix sizes &lt; 3200 than CUDA, while CUDADot gives the error for sizes > 3300. I  ...

### 66 Tuesday, October 4, 2016

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[UIperformance with large image data] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/127523/ui-performance-with-large-image-data

Some days ago, I built a small program for some of my colleagues to analyse cell images. One minor part of the user interface was the selection of the region of interest. The images are large and need ...

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[Transform sphere to an ellipse in ] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/127645/transform-sphere-to-an-ellipse-in-r2

In Lay’s Linear Algebra and Its Applications textbook, he defines the matrix

and claims that the transformation ...