MATLAB in unexpected places

This topic is for unexpected or bizarre or humorous references to MATLAB. Specific citations would be appreciated.

Answer 1

"Matlab" in Hindi literally stands for "meaning" - although it's pronounced Muth-lub (both u's pronounced as in the English word "hut").

You could start pronouncing it that way in Mathworks, and see if it catches on!

Answer 2

High concentrations of cadmium and arsenic have been found in Matlab

[EDIT]

The original article is no longer at that link, but the scientific study can be found at http://www.supportforlife.org/media-centre/news/2197-researchers-investigate-levels-of-arsenic-and-cadmium-in-food-chain-in-bangladesh

TMW just has to open a branch office there!

See also the Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab_Upazila) - "Not to be confused with MATLAB, the popular mathematical software."

And for those of you who haven't read the link and might be wondering: No, it is not a joke: it is a serious report about a real problem.

Doe that mean that those of us who consume a lot of Matlab have to be worried if we become nauseous or develop abdominal pain?

http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C15891.html

Better not tell the people in the "I hate MATLAB" facebook group! They probably already believe that MATLAB causes abdominal pain.

Answer 3

At my University someone has a car with "MATLAB" as their license plate text. I'm not positive who it is, though I have my guesses (that I'm sure some of you can deduce by looking at my University). As far as a reference/citation, I don't think whoever owns that car would appreciate their license plate shown all over the internet.

Of course, we already know what the license plate says... I am guessing it is Dr. D.H. or Dr. B.L.

I don't know who Dr. B. L is, but my license plate has been "MATLAB" for about a decade now. :-) I started using "Classic MATLAB" on the mainframe in graduate school in 1983 and was one of the first purchasers of PC-MATLAB in very early 1986. Jack Little answered the phone as he was tech support back then. I wrote a couple books on MATLAB. Duane Hanselman

Answer 4

And let's not forget the famous musical group DJ Matlab!

Cool DJ logo!

You, sir, have won today's internets by 7 wickets to love in the 4th hole of the 3rd chukka.

I'm glad ... I guess.

Answer 5

I do see the logo on other vehicles once in a while. If you see the logo on the back of a silver VW EuroVan with Idaho plates, look at the driver. You may just spot a bearded man wearing a MATLAB hat. Don't hesitate to wave!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had the surface plot on their car. I had it on my old car but when I got a new one I didn't want to adulterate it with any bumper stickers. After it gets a few dings I have a surface plot waiting for it!

Answer 6

I Hate MATLAB. (3,873 people like this.)

You can choose between I Hate MATLAB, I hate "MATLAB", We Hate MATLAB, I F#$*ing Hate Matlab, or I Hate MATLAB and LABVIEW!!!

Maybe we'll start to see things like:

I Hate MATLAB but I hate those jerks in the I hate "MATLAB" group even more!

It's very enjoyable reading some of those...

Really? Which ones?

ok we hate matlab but do any1 knows how to use it??? :D

I know I'm biased (but for the record, for me, loving MATLAB => employment @ TMW, not vice versa), but why would you *hate* MATLAB? I can understand not loving it like we do, but *hate*? I'm not a great fan of FORTRAN (at least F77, which I had to endure through school), but I don't hate it. (And the specific things I hated about F77 were precisely the things that MATLAB fixed!) I find Mathematica syntax far less intuitive than MATLAB, but, again, I don't hate Mma in any way.

All languages/applications have their strengths and weaknesses.

Odd. Very odd.

I also liked "Only 0.18% of people in the industry actually use this langauge. That's how bad it is."

That's just begging for a "[citation needed]".

"The" industry. Which "the" industry, I wonder...?

And why do people go to a site to say the same thing as everyone else? Do they feel validated?

A sad statement about my generation Andrew...

I just reported that facebook group:

* Violence or harmful behavior->Self-harm

it's really self-harm :)

Like Matt, I also got my job at MathWorks because I love MATLAB. I actually got scouted from MATLAB Central! :)

I think the professors "forcing" these students to use MATLAB for their homework sets are partially responsible for these reactions. If students only see this as another tool they have to learn to solve something that they *think* they can do with Excel (or a calculator), then I can see them disliking MATLAB. When professors become creative and give interesting problems for students to solve, I think it'll be different. I do think "hate" is kind of extreme. But kids nowadays like to exaggerate everything.

I *LOVE* flossing!! (okay, not really, but it does feel nice afterwards).

Now there is something I just cannot understand - preferring Excel to MATLAB.

I love helping folks see how cool MATLAB is! At work I often end up teaching someone how to do something in MATLAB that they couldn't figure out how to do on their own. It is my experience that when people see what MATLAB can do, how quickly ideas can be vetted, and how customizable it is, they end up coming back for more. Great stuff!

There are many I hate Excel groups on facebook!

That presents some tough choices: Do I sign up for "I hate Excel", "I hate Excel!", "I hate Excel!!", "I hate Microsoft Excel", or "we all hate microsoft excel"?

Judean People's Front?! We're the People's Front of Judea!

Answer 7

I like this one from this blog:

Arnaud

I think it's kind of funny that he refers to it as a mesh. Isn't it a surface?

Answer 8

From the Acknowledgements section of Spectral methods in MATLAB by Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen:

"... there is a brass plaque on my office wall, given to me in 1998 by The MathWorks Inc., which reads: FIRST ORDER FOR MATLAB, February 7, 1985, Ordered by Professor Nick Trefethen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

Answer 9

Someone ran a book comparison between "MATLAB for Control Engineers",

and "Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Dan and Drago"

Wonder which one they bought?

 "My Control Systems Toolbox deactivates your Battle Transfer Function!"

 "Oh yah? Well my Image Toolbox demotes you to D-list celebrity!"

Answer 10

I can't resist posting a link to a picture from the site Walter linked to:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100731213321/http://www.icddrb.org/uploads/images/hl_matlab.jpg

It's even all caps!

No (R) though. We should sue them. The armed guards are a bit scary, though - they might be too much for us to handle.

Unfortunately the original article that had the picture no longer exists. I did some searching but did not manage to come up with another copy of it.

Found - using a Firefox addon.

Perhaps edit in the new link?

The image didn't display reliably on this site, so I have posted the link to the archive instead.

Answer 11

Matlab - Quality Custom Finishing: "For more than three decades, Matlab has set the standard for quality custom paint and powder finishes ... Woman owned and operated."

Answer 12

Some Matlab lyrics.

Unfortunately, I can't make out a single one of these. :(

http://www.thelyricarchive.com/song/2330991-387174/Matlab

http://www.sweetslyrics.com/542833.OM%20JAI%20JAGADISH%20movie%20-%20Pyar%20Ka%20Matlab.html

http://hiox.org/17422-jo-ishq.php

http://www.lyricsmasti.com/song/5112/get_lyrics_of_Matlab-Jo-Samjhe-Mere-Sandes-Ka.html

http://www.hibeamlyrics.com/matlab-nikal-gaya-hain-lyrics-mohammad-rafi.html

"Matlab" in Hindi literally stands for "meaning" - although it's pronounced Muth-lub (both u's pronounced as in the English word "hut"). The last four links refer to Hindi songs. :)

And apparently the first one is from a Nepali group.

That first comment is worth an answer of its own!

I concur, if it were an answer, I'd vote for it

Kaustubha, if you would do the honors so you can receive the credit ?

Done! :)

Answer 13

Futuristic MATLAB in a film? See the review of Stealth (2005) that Mike Verdone wrote.

Answer 14

There is a town in Bangladesh where many studies have been done on diarrheal disease:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795369900146X http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20099756 http://www.indepth-network.org/dss_site_profiles/matlab.pdf

etc.

Some of these are pretty mathematical papers, but I doubt that is why the town keeps getting chosen.

That is the same town where the high levels of Cadmium and arsenic were found in the water table; a high concentration of those metals in the body could cause some pretty nasty effects :(

Answer 15

http://youtu.be/hyzwxD33LcI

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8388/dailypicdump640155.jpg

http://www.ecrater.co.uk/p/9296034/duniya-matlab-di-by-harmandeep

Answer 16

On an episode of Harry's law (I can't remember which one), Tommy Jefferson (a fast-talking lawyer) boasts about a number of lawsuits he's won against various big corporations. It went something like this:

"Amazon, Microsoft, Matlab, ..."

Which was pretty amusing

Answer 17

http://abstrusegoose.com/288

I imagine the picture for "WALTER DISCOVERS MATLAB" would show the kid a few tick marks to the left.

And I wonder how this got on there...

http://abstrusegoose.com/267

It was only one Nickelback song!! And all I said was that it wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be!