[DISCONTINUED] Wish-list for MATLAB Answer sections.
Walter Roberson
on 8 Feb 2011
Latest activity Reply by Walter Roberson
on 12 Feb 2023
This topic (which was not started by Mathworks) is for features you would like to see for this MATLAB Answers facility.
I suggest one wish per answer, so that people can vote for individual wishes.
What should you post where?
Next Gen threads (#1): features that would break compatibility with previous versions, but would be nice to have
@anyone posting a new thread when the last one gets too large (about 50 answers seems a reasonable limit per thread), please update this list in all last threads. (if you don't have editing privileges, just post a comment asking someone to do the edit)
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This particular Question is for discussion changes to the MATLAB Answers software itself -- the forum software that allows people to ask questions and make responses.
You should have created a new Question for that topic.
estimate the current height change along the course between point A=(sqrt3/2,1/2) and B=(1/2,sqrt3/2) identitfy 2 ways to estimate this height change one with derivatives one without
power = 2;
f = @(x, y) x .* y.^power;
A = [sqrt(3)/2, 1/2];
B = [1/2, sqrt(3)/2];
t = linspace(0, 1, 1000);
x = (1 - t) * A(1) + t * B(1);
y = (1 - t) * A(2) + t * B(2);
z = f(x, y);
height_change = z(end) - z(1);
disp(height_change);
this gave the answer of 0.1585 but it doesnt seem correct if i change the ^ to * the answer becomes 0 am i correctly computing what the question is asking
Dark theme/mode?
that already exists for MATLAB Answers. Go to the top right of any code block in MATLAB Answers, and click on the half filled circle, and you will toggle dark mode.
%example code block
Reminder: this Question is about the MATLAB Answers facility (this forum), with the MATLAB product wishlists being in other Questions.
Users need acces to eig function
Lapack is called in most circumstances where it makes sense to do so. Generally speaking, MATLAB delegates most vector and array mathematical operations to high-speed multithreaded libraries provided that the amount of work to be done is large enough to make it worth going through the interface code.
Yes, but why do you ask? Is there a particular reason you need or want to know what the internal implementation is doing? Why do you care as long as you receive the right answer?
Option to bookmark an answer or the whole question thread. And this should be available to us in the profile dashboard. I bookmark the page right now. Thanks for this thread too!
I often also store question and the accpeted answer in my MATLAB code library. I save them with a CodLib_typeOfAction filename format so I know what is in there. So CodLib_Extraction would be a live script with several sections , each with extraction example and with my comments. I was initially weak with extraction in MATLAB but now I am good with it. I run it and test these Q&As before saving so in future its good to go. Plus it helps me breakdown the problem statement and understand better.
Browser Bookmarks are normally when I find new functions. or an unique problem type.
Have not used Trello yet. Will check it out! thanks. I also think spell check for these answer boxes will be great!
The ability for editors/moderators to split and combine threads.
- A comment is actually an answer, so being able to change it to being an answer
- The OP replies to a question by creating an answer, so being able to change an answer to a comment of the selected thread.
This was the highest rated request during a recent internal process.
For easy navigation and for the historians,
Anyone with edit privileges should feel free to update this whenever needed.
Well, after the last update of Matlab Answers my biggest wish is now to put the white space back between the answers! I don't know if this was a common request to get rid of it, but it looks dreadful with answers just all running into each other. I like white space in my code and I like it in an answers forum for the same reasons. It's unreadable without. Distinct answers should be properly delineated, rather than just a thin box around them all slammed together.
I don't like that copy-pasting a user's handle only copies the text rather than copying it as a link. Additionally, when you paste the handle, it adds a line break prior to the text (try copy-pasting any user handle here).
What I'd really like to see is a spellcheck option. I realize variable names would often be detected as misspellings but that would serve as an additional reminder to format code (which would then be ignored by the spell checker).
As far as I can see, Activity Feed / Manage Followed Content apparently only shows threads that I follow if there is a post to that thread after I follow it. That is, if I follow a thread but no one later posts to it, the thread does not show up in my Followed Content list.
I'd like to have all of my followed threads show up in that list, even if there has been no further activity. This is because I might want to post a suggestion or partial answer later, if the question remains unanswered.
Alternatively, could there be a way to filter by Unanswered+Followed?
(Answers Dev) I will forward your message on to the appropriate developer.
Do we have to have the 'This website uses cookies...' message at the bottom of the Matlab Answers website every single day when we navigate to the page? I know the internet is now festooned with these kinds of messages, but it's not as though this one is giving options to select, it is just information. I've been signed into my account the whole time - I know nothing about website design, but can it not realise that if you are logged in you have already seen the message?!
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