Well, it seems that it is that time of the month when the TIOBE index releases the rankings of programming languages. Happy to see R improving it position going from 15 to 12. Matlab is at… Read More »Programming Languages Ranking 2014
The publication date of “Essential MATLAB and Octave” is getting closer and closer. I would like to use this as an opportunity to share yet another endorsement, this time from Dr Hiram Luna-Munguia from the… Read More »Essential MATLAB and Octave – Closer to publication date
Essential Matlab and Octave – Author Page I have now updated my Author Page at CRC Press. Take a look here.
I am very pleased to announce that I have submitted the final version of my book entitled “Essential MATLAB and Octave” to CRC Press. Also I have seen a preliminary cover, and they indeed have… Read More »Update on Essential Matlab and Octave
Once again Google puts out a doodle worth mentioning. This time they celebrate the 107th birthday anniversary of computer scientist Grace Hopper. In case you do not know who Hopper is, well, let me… Read More »Grace Hopper Doodle
Reblogged from The Endeavour by J. D. Cook. The Airy functions Ai(x) and Bi(x) are independent solutions to the differential equation For negative x they act something like sin(x) and cos(x). For positive x they act something like exp(x)… Read More »Relating Airy and Bessel functions
R ranked as #1 language for data mining and analytics (source KDnuggets)
A couple of years ago I had a look at the state of the TIOBE index that ranks the most popular programming languages. So has C# finally dethrone C++ as THE language of the year?… Read More »Programming Language Index – version 2013
In a past post I mentioned the serendipitous discovery of an encrypted message attached to the leg of a pigeon. The message, from WWII, had eluded the experts at GCHQ and the contents of… Read More »The most secret of messages… cracked!!
Well, I have now made the move to Mountain Lion and for a bit it did look quite good, until I had the nerve of trying to start MATLAB. Now, I must admit that the… Read More »MATLAB for mac in Mountain Lion without X11