MATLAB in unexpected places
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This topic is for unexpected or bizarre or humorous references to MATLAB. Specific citations would be appreciated.
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Kaustubha Govind
on 7 Apr 2011
"Matlab" in Hindi literally stands for "meaning" - although it's pronounced Muth-lub (both u's pronounced as in the English word "hut").
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Matt J
on 5 Jul 2013
Edited: Matt J
on 18 Sep 2013
At the company I work for, I sometimes provide people with various MATLAB-compiled standalone utilities for their work. When I told him it was MATLAB, one of the people here, who was apparently unfamiliar with The Mathworks and its products, concluded that MATLAB itself was my invention and that I had named MATLAB after myself (because my name is Matt......Matt-Lab......get it?).
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Walter Roberson
on 5 Apr 2011
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Sean de Wolski
on 6 Apr 2011
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
Matt Tearle
on 7 Apr 2011
Better not tell the people in the "I hate MATLAB" facebook group! They probably already believe that MATLAB causes abdominal pain.
Sean de Wolski
on 5 Apr 2011
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.
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Duane Hanselman
on 8 Jun 2011
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
Andrew Newell
on 6 Apr 2011
And let's not forget the famous musical group DJ Matlab!
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Matt Tearle
on 6 Apr 2011
You, sir, have won today's internets by 7 wickets to love in the 4th hole of the 3rd chukka.
Arnaud Miege
on 7 Apr 2011
I like this one from this blog:
Arnaud
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Sean de Wolski
on 7 Apr 2011
I think it's kind of funny that he refers to it as a mesh. Isn't it a surface?
Matt Fig
on 5 Apr 2011
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!
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Image Analyst
on 23 Apr 2014
I don't have it. I don't recall seeing it as an option before. Reminds me of a mousepad - do you have a MATLAB one of those? Like a thin neoprene and fabric one? I'd take one of those.
Andrew Newell
on 6 Apr 2011
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!
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Andrew Newell
on 7 Apr 2011
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"?
Andrew Newell
on 7 Feb 2012
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."
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Andrew Newell
on 6 Apr 2011
I can't resist posting a link to a picture from the site Walter linked to:
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Andrew Newell
on 8 Jun 2011
The image didn't display reliably on this site, so I have posted the link to the archive instead.
Andrew Newell
on 6 Apr 2011
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."
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John Tillinghast
on 17 Aug 2011
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.
Richard Brown
on 16 Apr 2012
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
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Luuk van Oosten
on 15 Jul 2014
There is this guy who hates around everything about MATLAB. Pretty fun to read about his frustration and anger.
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Doug Hull
on 16 Sep 2014
The is a MATLAB box in the background in the movie Contact when Elie runs in after hearing first message.
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Walter Roberson
on 19 Jul 2015
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Jan
on 19 Jul 2015
This answer has been marked as potential spam. I'm afraid it advertises the use of Matlab in an unexpected place.
Anyway, I've removed the flag.
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