MATLAB in unexpected places
Asked by Walter Roberson on 5 Apr 2011
Latest activity Commented on by Walter Roberson on 22 Sep 2012
This topic is for unexpected or bizarre or humorous references to MATLAB. Specific citations would be appreciated.
Products
17 Answers
Answer by 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").
1 Comment
Andrew Newell on 7 Apr 2011
You could start pronouncing it that way in Mathworks, and see if it catches on!
Answer by Walter Roberson on 5 Apr 2011
High concentrations of cadmium and arsenic have been found in Matlab
[EDIT]
The original article is no longer at that link, but the scientific study can be found at http://www.supportforlife.org/media-centre/news/2197-researchers-investigate-levels-of-arsenic-and-cadmium-in-food-chain-in-bangladesh
5 Comments
Show 2 older comments
Walter Roberson on 6 Apr 2011
And for those of you who haven't read the link and might be wondering: No, it is not a joke: it is a serious report about a real problem.
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.
Answer by 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.
2 Comments
Matt Fig on 5 Apr 2011
Of course, we already know what the license plate says... I am guessing it is Dr. D.H. or Dr. B.L.
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
Answer by Andrew Newell on 6 Apr 2011
And let's not forget the famous musical group DJ Matlab!
3 Comments
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.
Answer by 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!
1 Comment
Sean de Wolski on 5 Apr 2011
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had the surface plot on their car. I had it on my old car but when I got a new one I didn't want to adulterate it with any bumper stickers. After it gets a few dings I have a surface plot waiting for it!
Answer by 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!
14 Comments
Show 11 older comments
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"?
Answer by Arnaud Miege on 7 Apr 2011
1 Comment
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?
Answer by 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."
0 Comments
Answer by 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!"
0 Comments
Answer by Andrew Newell on 6 Apr 2011
I can't resist posting a link to a picture from the site Walter linked to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100731213321/http://www.icddrb.org/uploads/images/hl_matlab.jpg
6 Comments
Show 3 older comments
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.
Answer by 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."
0 Comments
Answer by Walter Roberson on 6 Apr 2011
Some Matlab lyrics.
Unfortunately, I can't make out a single one of these. :(
http://www.thelyricarchive.com/song/2330991-387174/Matlab
http://www.sweetslyrics.com/542833.OM%20JAI%20JAGADISH%20movie%20-%20Pyar%20Ka%20Matlab.html
http://hiox.org/17422-jo-ishq.php
http://www.lyricsmasti.com/song/5112/get_lyrics_of_Matlab-Jo-Samjhe-Mere-Sandes-Ka.html
http://www.hibeamlyrics.com/matlab-nikal-gaya-hain-lyrics-mohammad-rafi.html
6 Comments
Show 3 older comments
Walter Roberson on 6 Apr 2011
Kaustubha, if you would do the honors so you can receive the credit ?
Answer by Walter Roberson on 11 May 2011
Futuristic MATLAB in a film? See the review of Stealth (2005) that Mike Verdone wrote.
0 Comments
Answer by 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.
1 Comment
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 :(
Answer by Grzegorz Knor on 15 Sep 2011
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8388/dailypicdump640155.jpg
http://www.ecrater.co.uk/p/9296034/duniya-matlab-di-by-harmandeep
0 Comments
Answer by 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
0 Comments
Answer by Walter Roberson on 20 Sep 2012
3 Comments
Image Analyst on 20 Sep 2012
I imagine the picture for "WALTER DISCOVERS MATLAB" would show the kid a few tick marks to the left.
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!
0 Comments