Mike Croucher

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I write The MATLAB Blog at MathWorks and specialize in High Performance Computing, Research Software Engineering and Machine Learning. You can also follow me at BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/walkingrandomly.bsky.social

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Details about the new MATLAB Release: 2026a
Hi everyone My blog post about the latest MATLAB release was published yesterday MATLAB R2026a has been released – What’s new? ...

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Introducing the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit
Short version: MathWorks have released the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit which will significantly improve the life of anyone who is usi...

12 days ago | 0

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Release of MATLAB MCP Core Server v0.6.0
MATLAB MCP Core Server v0.6.0 has been released onGitHub: https://github.com/matlab/matlab-mcp-core-server/releases/tag/v0.6.0 ...

2 months ago | 0

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Vibe coding for Valentine's Day
I used Claude Code along with MATLAB's MCP server to develop this animation that morphs between the MATLAB membrane and a 3D hea...

3 months ago | 0

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Release of MATLAB MCP Core Server v0.50
New release! MATLAB MCP Core Server v0.5.0 ! The latest version introduces MATLAB nodesktop mode — a feature that lets you run ...

3 months ago | 0

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MATLAB Pick Of The Week: MATLAB DocMaker
The latest MathWorks MATLAB Pick Of The Week is MATLAB DocMaker. DocMaker allows you to create MATLAB toolbox documentation fro...

3 months ago | 0

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Has anyone here tried the Ralf Wiggum loop with MATLAB?
AI-assisted software development moves pretty fast! I recently noticed everyone in the AI community talking about a Simpson's ch...

3 months ago | 0

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Release of MATLAB MCP Core Server v0.4.0
I see many people are using our new MCP Core Sever to do amazing things with MATLAB and AI. Some people are describing their exp...

3 months ago | 0

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Hosting your own large language models and connecting them to MATLAB with an NVIDIA DGX Spark
I've talked about running local Large Language Models a couple of times on The MATLAB Blog but always had to settle for small mo...

4 months ago | 0

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Let's vibe code Christmas trees
I thought it would be fun to vibe code Christmas trees. Model: Claude Sonnet4.5 Prompt: Write a MATLAB script that draws a Chr...

4 months ago | 0

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What resources do you use to learn more about MATLAB and Simulink?
I recently published this blog post about resources to help people learn MATLAB https://blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/09/11/le...

7 months ago | 0

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What enhancements to MATLAB's ODE capabilities would you like to see?
Helllo all I write The MATLAB Blog and have covered various enhancements to MATLAB's ODE capabilities over the last couple of y...

7 months ago | 0

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Vacuous Truth
all(logical.empty) Discuss!

7 months ago | 0

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LLMs with MATLAB updated to support GPT-5 models
Large Language Models (LLMs) with MATLAB was updated again today to support the newly released OpenAI models GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, ...

9 months ago | 3

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Using gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models on your local machine with MATLAB
These got released last week and the process for using them on your local machine with MATLAB is very similar to how you use the...

9 months ago | 5

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Video tutorial on getting started with testing in MATLAB
Long before I joined MathWorks, I was a member of the academic Research Software Engineering (RSE) community where part of my mi...

9 months ago | 4

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Pair programming with Claude to produce computational art in MATLAB
I found some beautiful computational art made by a developer called @yuruyurau who used a language called Processing. Unfortunat...

9 months ago | 6

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Why should you share code?
In a discussion on LInkedin about my recent blog post, Do these 3 things to increase the reach of your open source MATLAB toolbo...

10 months ago | 6

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Markdown support in MATLAB R2025a is excellent
In case you missed it in my overview of the MATLAB R2025a release, Markdown support has been greatly improved. This picture say...

10 months ago | 7

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PIVlab surpasses 100K all-time File Exchange downloads
During the past twelve months, PIVlab, a MATLAB Community Toolbox for particle interference velocimetry (a technique for fluid f...

12 months ago | 8

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If you have parallel MATLAB code, try ThreadPool
Me: If you have parallel code and you apply this trick that only requires changing one line then it might go faster. Reddit use...

1 year ago | 6

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R2025a Prerelease Update 5 discussion
There has been a lot of discussion here about the R2025a Prerelease that has really helped us get it ready for the prime time. T...

1 year ago | 8

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What are the first steps to developing a new toolbox?
Imagine you are developing a new toolbox for MATLAB. You have a folder full of a few .m files defining a bunch of functions and ...

1 year ago | 5

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Join MathWorks and AWS in this hands on Quantum Computing Workshop: March 26 and 27 2025
Learn the basic of quantum computing, how to simulate quantum circuits on MATLAB and how to run them on real quantum computers u...

1 year ago | 4

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All you need is....
tiledlayout(4,1); % Plot "L" (y = 1/(x+1), for x > -1) x = linspace(-0.9, 2, 100); % Avoid x = -1 (undefined) y =1 ./ (x+1)...

1 year ago | 6

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MATLAB Without Borders: Connecting your projects with Python and other Open Source Tools.
On 27th February María Elena Gavilán Alfonso and I will be giving an online seminar that has been a while in the making. We'll b...

1 year ago | 10

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On love and research software: Learning about research code sharing for Valentine's day
For Valentine's day this year I tried to do something a little more than just the usual 'Here's some MATLAB code that draws a pi...

1 year ago | 2

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Run DeepSeek models on your own machine and interact with them using MATLAB
You've probably heard about the DeepSeek AI models by now. Did you know you can run them on your own machine (assuming its power...

1 year ago | 4

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Faster linear algebra for Apple Silicon users in the R2025a pre-release (available now!)
So you've downloaded the R2025a pre-release, tried Dark mode and are wondering what else is new. A lot! A lot is new! One thi...

1 year ago | 6

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Give Dark Mode a try in the R2025a pre-release
Hi everyone The R2025a pre-release is now available to licensed users. I highly encourage you to download, give it a try and gi...

1 year ago | 10