Mike's pick this week is Happy Numbers by Martin FoltinEvery new year, I like to see what makes this year's number interesting. For 2026, I got an easy first hit since it turns out that 2026 is an example of a Happy Number.According to the Wikipedia page,

Using the Live Editor and the Symbolic Math Toolbox to teach calculus concepts

Huang et al., (2026). HiGP: A high-performance Python package for Gaussian Processes. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(117), 8621, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08621

G1 and G2 fitting with clothoids, circle and biarc

An efficient and fully-featured legacy-compatible STL encoder and decoder, along with other assorted tools.

Today’s guest blogger is David Marshall. David is a User Experience Researcher supporting MathWorks Online Products, including the Community, Help Center, and search. In this blog he describes his recent experience supporting the new AI-generated Quick Answers…

Learn how to add and manipulate traffic light actors in RoadRunner Scenario and create a scenario containing an ego vehicle interacting with the traffic lights.

- Learn more about the RoadRunner Traffic Signal Editor here: https://bit.ly/3X49m0B
- Learn…

My first blog about SVD and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate was five years ago. Today's post updates that to 2025.

Contents



SVD Measures Partisanship


The Senate


The Data


The Matrices


Partisanship


Compare


Increasing…

Convert SI-prefixed text (aka engineering / metric prefix) into numeric values. Bonus: binary prefixes!

Repository related to the project Automatic Energy Community Modeler (AutoECoMo)

こんにちは，道家です．今年もどうぞ宜しくお願いいたします．恒例の MATLAB EXPO Japan ライトニングトークとポスター発表の募集が始まっています．今年も MATLAB EXPO Japan は会場（5月26日，ザ・プリンスパークタワー東京）とオンライン（6月下旬）で開催されます．ライトニングトークは会場とオンラインで，ポスター発表は会場のみで実施される予定です．MATLAB EXPO Japan ではプロフェッショナルなユーザーの皆さまから活用事例などを紹介いただいていますが，その中で実施さ…

Co-author: Brian Douglas

Brian is a Technical Content Creator at MathWorks and control engineer with over 20 years of experience in the field, and a passion for sharing his knowledge with others. He creates and posts engaging videos, drawings, and short…

This Tech Talk covers different approaches for using reinforcement learning (RL) to develop and deploy control policies on real hardware. Instead of focusing on algorithm details, it compares strategies for training and running policies, emphasizing tradeoffs…

Extract isosurface patches from individual connected components.

Guest Writer: Will Jackson
Will Jackson serves as the manager of the interactions and accessibility team for MATLAB. Will joined MathWorks in 2008 and contributed to the charting and interactions areas as a developer before becoming a manager.




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The world of engineering is undergoing a seismic transformation. Digital engineering is no longer a buzzword; it's the backbone of modern system development. Yet, for many professionals and organizations, digital engineering remains a maze of jargon, tools…

Create reduced order models of Simulink models or subsystems, including subsystems that integrate high-fidelity 3rd party tools.

The previous post introduced a MATLAB-based traffic swarm framework capable of generating randomized ambient traffic with configurable safety and behavioral parameters. Realistic traffic scenarios require each vehicle to have a robust behavior model that…

Duncan Carlsmith is a busy man. Don't believe me? Take a look in the Generative AI discussion area and you'll see that he's made six posts in the last three weeks alone. And these posts are substantial, cataloguing significant achievements. His most recent…