MATLAB in unexpected places

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Apr 2011
Commented: ali yaman on 14 Jul 2022
This topic is for unexpected or bizarre or humorous references to MATLAB. Specific citations would be appreciated.

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Kaustubha Govind
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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akkii sdf
akkii sdf on 15 Apr 2015
btw its true.. :)

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Matt J
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
Walter Roberson on 5 Sep 2013
I think Matt means programs built using MATLAB Compiler. The startup icon would be the MATLAB logo.
If you want to develop for dedicated hardware you are more likely going to want to look at MATLAB Coder, or Simulink Coder, possibly with some of the extension toolboxes like Fixed Point Toolbox or HDL Coder.
ali yaman
ali yaman on 14 Jul 2022
that was funny :)

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Apr 2011
High concentrations of cadmium and arsenic have been found in Matlab
[EDIT]
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Sean de Wolski
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
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.

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Sean de Wolski
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
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

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Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell on 6 Apr 2011

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

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Matt Tearle
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.
Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell on 6 Apr 2011
I'm glad ... I guess.

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Arnaud Miege
Arnaud Miege on 7 Apr 2011

I like this one from this blog:

Arnaud

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Sean de Wolski
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?

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Matt Fig
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
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.
Mike Jordan
Mike Jordan on 24 Feb 2021
Never heard or seen before.

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Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell on 6 Apr 2011
I Hate MATLAB. (3,873 people like this.)
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
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"?
Matt Tearle
Matt Tearle on 7 Apr 2011
Judean People's Front?! We're the People's Front of Judea!

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Andrew Newell
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."

Fabio Freschi
Fabio Freschi on 16 Sep 2014

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 4 Oct 2015

According to Ancestry.com, John and Mary Matlab lived in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania in about 1910, along with their children Mary Matlab, John Matlab, and Steve Matlab .

Frances Mupad lived in New York, New York in about 1840.

(I was looking for information on the history of MuPAD and was startled to see genealogy records ;-) )

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 7 Oct 2015

For some reason I keep thinking that somewhere out there, some author most have created a character, 'Steve Matlab, PI" (Private Investigator); or perhaps they made him a policeman. Maybe a high-stakes Forensic Accountant investigating the flow of criminal money. But certainly not "Steve Matlab, Caricature Artist", or "Steve Matlab Clowns For All Occasions".

This is what I think about what I cannot sleep at night.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 6 Apr 2011

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!"

Andrew Newell
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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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 8 Jun 2011
Perhaps edit in the new link?
Andrew Newell
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.

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Andrew Newell
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."

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 6 Apr 2011
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 6 Apr 2011
Kaustubha, if you would do the honors so you can receive the credit ?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 11 May 2011
Futuristic MATLAB in a film? See the review of Stealth (2005) that Mike Verdone wrote.

John Tillinghast
John Tillinghast on 17 Aug 2011
There is a town in Bangladesh where many studies have been done on diarrheal disease:
etc.
Some of these are pretty mathematical papers, but I doubt that is why the town keeps getting chosen.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 17 Aug 2011
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 :(

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Grzegorz Knor
Grzegorz Knor on 15 Sep 2011

Richard Brown
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

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 20 Sep 2012
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 22 Sep 2012
And I wonder how this got on there...
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 22 Sep 2012
It was only one Nickelback song!! And all I said was that it wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be!

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Jul 2013
Edited: Walter Roberson on 19 Jul 2015
Playing Cricket: Physicists Cast New Light On Spin-Bowling
As the Ashes series gets underway next week, a pair of brothers from Australia have been exploring the physics behind the spin of a cricket ball.
[...]
Garry Robinson said: "Our results show that the effects on a spinning ball are not purely due to the wind holding the ball up, since a reversal of wind direction can cause the ball to dip instead. These trajectory changes are due to the combination of the wind and the spin of the ball.
"The effects of spin in the presence of a cross-wind, and how to fully exploit it, may or may not be completely appreciated by spin bowlers. Either way, we have provided a mathematical model for the situation, although the model of course awaits detailed comparison with observations."
[...]
Once the equations were constructed, they were numerically solved using a computer software program called MATLAB; the solutions were then used to create illustrative examples for cricket.
[...]

Luuk van Oosten
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.

Doug Hull
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.

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 14 May 2015
MATLAB mention in a humor post about Programming Vehicles:

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 19 Jul 2015
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Jan
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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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 16 Dec 2021
Edited: Walter Roberson on 4 Mar 2022
Mark Rober uses MATLAB to control automatic dart board.

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 4 Mar 2022
Edited: Walter Roberson on 4 Mar 2022
Using MATLAB to simulate a million golf-balls
And running Snake

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