2.21.1 Top new questions this week

2.21.1.1 How to solve the Monty Hall problem?

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Problem For purely recreational purposes I would like to solve the Monty Hall problem with Mathematica using the function Probability (dedicated to the calculation of probabilities). About the Monty ...

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answered by Sjoerd Smit https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=43522 16 votes

2.21.1.2 Change Opacity along a ListLinePlot

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I’m trying to change the opacity of a line in a ListLinePlot for increasing x-value. E.g. the line should have opacity 1 at beginning and shade than down to opacity along the line. I want to take the ...

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2.21.1.3 Use Cases with empty cells in the list

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I work with a complex dataset. The most simple form of this list looks like:

dat1 = {{a, b, c, {}}, {d, e, f, {1}}, {h, i, j, {2}}} 
 
I want to select the nested {} part. 
Cases[dat1, {___, {a_}} :>  ...

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answered by flinty https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72682 9 votes

2.21.1.4 Writing compiled functions as fast as Python’s Numba

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I want to write some code to simulate a damped oscillator that is just as fast as code written using Numba's @njit decorator. I’ve written the mathematica code and mine is 20-40x slower than the ...

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2.21.1.5 Why are more highly nested lists often not more memory and time-intensive?

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I would expect more highly nested lists, being deeper and more complex than flatter lists, to take up more space (bytecount) and take more time and memory to operate on in general. Consider the ...

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2.21.1.6 Correcting the Color Scale of a MatrixPlot

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I did a MatrixPlot of a set of values that range between 0 and 1. I got the following first plot with no problems:

As we can see from the legend, the values range between 0 and 1. Now, I am doing ...

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2.21.1.7 Verify an inequality of many parameters

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I’ve got an inequality of 10 non-negative parameters (arising from a 5x5 matrix) and would like to verify whether it holds. I tried the following, which doesn’t seem to work:

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