Welcome to MATLAB Central's first Ask Me Anything (AMA) session! Over the next few weeks, I look forward to addressing any questions or curiosities you might have about MATLAB, the forum, sasquatches, or whatever's on your mind. Having volunteered as a contributor to this community before joining MathWorks, I'm excited to act as a bridge between these two worlds. Let's kick things off by sharing a little-known fact about the forum’s staff contributors!
A couple of years ago, before I joined MathWorks as a developer on the Graphics and Charting team, I often wondered who were the MathWorkers with the [staff] moniker answering questions in the Answers forum. Is their MATLAB Central activity part of their day-to-day job expectations? Do they serve specific roles on some kind of community outreach team? Is their work in the forum voluntary in the same way that non-staff contributors volunteer their time?
Now that I'm on the inside, I'd like to share a secret with my fellow MATLAB users and MATLAB Central enthusiasts: with the exception of the MathWorks Support Team, staff participation in the Answers forum is completely voluntary! The staff contributions you see in the forum arise from pure intrinsic motivation to connect with users, help people out of ruts, and spread the word about our product!
For example, Steven Lord has contributed 20-150 answers per month for 9 years! Steven is a quality engineer for core MATLAB numerical functions. Cris LaPierre develops training material and has been a faithful contributor in the forum for almost 6 years! Kojiro Saito and Akira Agata have been tackling Japanese content for more than 7 years! There are many others who have inspired me as a user, and I am honored to now call colleagues: Peter Perkins, Michio, Joss Knight, Alan Weiss, Jiro Doke, Edric Ellis, and many others who deserve appreciation.
The forum's success hinges on the invaluable contributions from the majority of non-staff volunteers, whose dedication and expertise fuel our community. But I know I wasn't alone in wondering about these staff contributors, so now you're in on the secret!
I'm curious to know what other topics you're interested in learning about. Ask me anything!
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hello, i have 8 month data of the RO Desalination plant., Which are raw values form the DCS system and labratory data. I need a machine learning algorithm to predict the remining useful life form the data. Guide whom should i reach to solve this problem, we have purchased the necessary machine learning module. Kindly help out.
HI, I'm trying to utilize Genetic Algorithm for optimization through API with Etabs for an existing building model to get an optimized shear wall orientation. API and the desired file opening and analysis goes well. But the advanced part , the GA cannot perform. The AI Chat Playground suggested some solutions, still not being able to run the GA. Please help me with the code for GA. Thanks.
hi my name is mina i need some help please , I made my project about how can we make a metal detector using matlab in its core , but with high effeciency and low cost if it is possible . (like the type of the metal, could we use ai or not in the project , and the location of the metal ).
if there ant one make it before i will be gratefull to help me in it and till me what is the best component to make this project (knowing that maxmimun depth we need is from 5 to 10 meters ) 
If you use MATLAB or Simulink alone, you cannot construct a metal detector: at most you construct a simulated metal detector.
In order to construct a working metal detector, you need some external hardware, and a way to get readings from the hardware. For example you might use an arduino together with other hardware; https://forum.arduino.cc/t/metal-detector-with-arduino/1170539 or https://www.instructables.com/Minimal-Arduino-Metal-Detector/ or https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/arduino-metal-detector-circuit-code
thank you alot for these videos , but how i can make this metal detector more powerfull for 1 meter or 2 at least . The hardware in these links is for weak metal detector , is these anyway or i should study how it works first to make it or there is new way using matlab as a main software to take the potential of the weak haedware to another level ?
https://www.amazon.ca/Arduino-Nano-Metal-Detector-Project/dp/B0CR9DP59X is relevant. I do not know how sensitive it is, though.
Hello, my name is Peter. I am a student in Thailand. I need your help or assistance from someone knowledgeable in MATLAB. I have an assignment as follows: Use the images mask.jpg and live.jpg to perform calculations by adding and/or multiplying them, or both. Additionally, adjust the contrast to produce images similar to output.jpg and output1.jpg. This should be done in a manner similar to the research described here: Image Registration Research. Below is the code I have written so far, but it is not correct.
Hello! I'm starting to work with Matlab and I need help importing EDF files (or EFD in your language) generated in icelera nano into matlab using EEGlab, could anyone help me? If possible, step by step!
Thank you all for the engaging and insightful questions during our first AMA session! Your questions gave me the opportunity to dig deeper into several topics. For those of you particularly interested in MATLAB Graphics and App Building, I highly recommend following our new blog for the latest insights, tips, and updates. I look forward to seeing you in the Answers forum or File Exchange!
I generated code with the help of Simulink coder. I don't have Embedded coder, so I used that, Integrate Simulink coder with other code is possible?
I want to purchase a licence for home use just to learn matlab.It is enough a laptop with a procesor intel core ultra 5 125u/125h with iGPU up to 64GB or I need something with a dGPU?
Thank you in advance for your time.
The iGPU and dGPU will not be actively used by MATLAB; they will only be used indirectly by the graphics drivers.
MATLAB is only able to actively use NVIDIA GPUs.
Addressing more questions this week! Keep the questions coming!
power factor improvement using thyrister switched capaciotor simple circuit in matlab simulink
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