5.4 Tuesday, December 6, 2016

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Top new questions this week: 
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[How to find arXiv articles] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132685/how-to-find-arxiv-articles

I found at Twitter that is possible to search for arXiv articles with Mathematica:

E.g. the following code:

arXiv = ServiceConnect["ArXiv"]; 
 
articles = arXiv["Search", {"Query" ->  ...

- asked by mrz (16 votes), answered by user21 (11 votes)

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[Find lane lines] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132443/find-lane-lines

A crucial step in self-driving car is to detect lane lines. I’m wondering whether this can be achieved robustly using Mathematica’s rich image processing tools.

For example how can I take camera ...

- asked by xslittlegrass (14 votes), answered by nikie (14 votes)

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[Neural Network for polynomial fit] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132546/neural-network-for-polynomial-fit

I’m trying to build up a neural network with Mathematica 11.0, that should fit data which behaves like a polynom of third order. I thought that an NN with one or two hidden layers can fit any ...

- asked by A.Zachl (12 votes), answered by nikie (9 votes)

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[How to make notebooks suitable for the Documentation Center?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132392/how-to-make-notebooks-suitable-for-the-documentation-center

Normally, documentation meant to be integrated into the Documentation Center is built from special source notebooks.

According to the Workbench documentation, it should also be possible to use ...

- asked by Szabolcs (12 votes), answered by jkuczm (5 votes)

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[Largest palindrome from given string] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132834/largest-palindrome-from-given-string

Someone recently posted a request on LinkedIn for an algorithm to find the largest palindrome from a given string.

I came up with this, which I believe does the trick, but I am wondering if there ...

- asked by Jonathan Kinlay (10 votes), answered by Kuba (10 votes)

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[Why Function is not identical to `&` in autocompilation?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132656/why-function-is-not-identical-to-in-autocompilation

Here is the example, copied from here

square = Function[x, x^2]; 
square1 = #^2 &;

the timing and unpacking status shows

data = RandomReal[0, 10, 10000];

...

- asked by matheorem (10 votes), answered by m_goldberg (4 votes)

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[Analytic solution to Newtonian gravity differential equation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132875/analytic-solution-to-newtonian-gravity-differential-equation

I was told that I could obtain an analytic solution to a particle falling under the influence of Newtonian gravity by using DSolveValue.

What I am given

\(G = M = m = 1\) \(M\) is a point mass at \(z=0\) ...

- asked by Joe (9 votes), answered by Kagaratsch (9 votes)

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[Unit Discovery: Is this some sort of a sick joke?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124745/unit-discovery-is-this-some-sort-of-a-sick-joke

Alright, let’s have some fun here. I am essentially following the documentation by Wolfram, just looking at different quantities.

N[UnitConvert[Quantity["earth's gravity"]]] 
 
9.80665m/(s)^2

Hmm, ...

- asked by Pirx (30 votes), answered by xavier (30 votes)

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[How can Mathematica be used to create images like these?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/118992/how-can-mathematica-be-used-to-create-images-like-these

Here are two examples of artistic image interpolation using just black lines:

TRIANGULATION: ANGULAR CELEBRITIES DRAWN WITH A PEN Interpolation for Triangulation-represented Digital Image

The ...

- asked by R Hall (28 votes), answered by MarcoB (29 votes)

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[How to find a value to make function positive and real?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132883/how-to-find-a-value-to-make-function-positive-and-real

Let

x=(((-3 + r) r^2 + a^2 (1 + r)) Csc[])/(a (-1 + r)) 
 
y=Sqrt[(a^2 (a^2 (1 + r)^2 + 2 r^2 (-3 + r^2)) + 
 a^4 (-1 + r)^2 Cos[]^2 - ((-3 + r) r^2 + 
    a^2 (1 + r))^2 Csc[]^2)/(a^2 (-1 + r)^2)]

...

- asked by MrDi (1 vote)

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[Creating an automatic code feedback for class] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132880/creating-an-automatic-code-feedback-for-class

I’m trying to create a server application that accepts uploaded Mathematica files (that follow a certain API), then run a few tests on modules defined within those files. This is for a course where ...

- asked by michael99man (1 vote)

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[Nontrivial background removal] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/132844/nontrivial-background-removal

I have an image of a product on a poorly made green screen and need to segment out just the product:

The problem is that it contains a mirror, so simple color-based methods are not enough.

I tried ...

- asked by M.R. (4 votes)