5.18 Tuesday, August 30, 2016

================================== 
Top new questions this week: 
==================================

[How to make a Spherical Cow?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/125043/how-to-make-a-spherical-cow

Being a theoretical physicist, I always have a great respect for Spherical Cow. So I thought about making one myself. I am not sure how can I create (something considered to be the simplest!) this ...

- asked by Sumit (29 votes), answered by andre (41 votes)

—————————-

[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 (26 votes), answered by Xavier (27 votes)

—————————-

[Remove noise from data] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124928/remove-noise-from-data

Hi, as you can see above I have some experimental data which has a large offset and shows clear noise fluctations around the tendency of the curve. I wanted to ask if someone could suggest me a ...

- asked by Filipe (23 votes), answered by nikie (22 votes)

—————————-

[Q&A Mathematica v.11 Neural Networks: A comprehensive look at Layers, Net Functions, and pioneering into this [[experimental]] code] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124977/qa-mathematica-v-11-neural-networks-a-comprehensive-look-at-layers-net-functi

Motivation

As Mathematica v.11 was released earlier this month with a host of new [[experimental]] functions and a limited number of examples on curated data that do not cover all layers, options, ...

- asked by SumNeuron (20 votes), answered by Sebastian (12 votes)

—————————-

[Custom OpenerView with lazy evaluation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124892/custom-openerview-with-lazy-evaluation

OpenerView can be nested to create a hierarchical structure such as this:

One great aspect is that it remembers which lists are open and which are closed even after the parent has been closed and ...

- asked by C. E. (16 votes), answered by C. E. (7 votes)

—————————-

[RNN in Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124988/rnn-in-mathematica

Recurrent neural network is an important part of machine learning and its improved version: LSTM network is widely applied, but Mathematica seemingly is in lack of these two features and in my ...

- asked by Wjx (15 votes), answered by Taliesin Beynon (19 votes)

—————————-

[Pentagonal spiral in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/125007/pentagonal-spiral-in-mathematica

I would like to plot an image of what I call a pentagonal spiral with Mathematica. A sample image of what I’d like to obtain is this (sorry for low-quality):

My initial idea was to get some kind of ...

- asked by bharb (14 votes), answered by Wjx (11 votes)

================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================

[Labeling individual curves in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica

I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad.

Is ...

- asked by Tianxiang Xiong (44 votes), answered by Artes (37 votes)

—————————-

[How to make this beautiful animation] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/112700/how-to-make-this-beautiful-animation

How to make an animation of following gif in Mathematica?

Edit: The animation shown above was created by Charlie Deck in processing.

And how to make 3D analog?

I tried first few steps

line = ...

- asked by vito (45 votes), answered by C. E. (48 votes)

================================== Can you answer these? ==================================

[WolframScript never exits (v11 only)] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124667/wolframscript-never-exits-v11-only

after updating to version 11, I came across a problem with the execution of package files via bash.

The WolframScript program runs the entire code, but frequently it does not exit properly and as a ...

- asked by fabio.hipolito (5 votes)

—————————-

[Representing inequalties with proper boundaries] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124747/representing-inequalties-with-proper-boundaries

I have a very simple problem: given an inequality, I’d like to represent it in a regional plot marking the boundary differently depending whether it belongs to the region or not. For example I’d like ...

- asked by Geon (3 votes)

—————————-

[StringTemplate performance issue] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/125087/stringtemplate-performance-issue

StringTemplate introduced in version 10 is very convenient in constructing formatted data. However, it seems to have a huge performance issue.

Consider this example:

data = RandomInteger[1, 100, ...

- asked by xslittlegrass (5 votes)