6.16 Tuesday, September 15, 2015

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Top new questions this week: 
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[Spacing out random walks so they don’t overlap] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94363/spacing-out-random-walks-so-they-dont-overlap)

From an external simulation program, I have lots of particle tracks which follow random walks, all of which start at or near the origin \((0,0)\). This means that when I plot the walks in Mathematica, ...

- asked by blochwave (20 votes), answered by kirma (8 votes)

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[How to avoid the wiggly text on Ticks and Labels when rotating 3D objects] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94470/how-to-avoid-the-wiggly-text-on-ticks-and-labels-when-rotating-3d-objects)

Motivation

I’m trying to do a nice animation of the rotation of a ParametricPlot3D . My problem is that the Ticks numbers and AxesLabel text wiggle with an undesirable noisy component as the ...

- asked by rhermans (16 votes), answered by P. Fonseca (8 votes)

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[Efficiently generating 2-D Gaussian random fields on the sphere] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94390/efficiently-generating-2-d-gaussian-random-fields-on-the-sphere)

Context

A couple of years ago I posted this question for an efficient code to generate an n-D Gaussian random field (sometimes called processes in other fields of research), which has applications in ...

- asked by chris (15 votes)

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[Pattern does not match with Orderless head] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94432/pattern-does-not-match-with-orderless-head)

Why does the following pattern matching not succeed?

ClearAll[f]; 
SetAttributes[f,Orderless]; 
HoldForm[f[a,d[],b,c]]/.HoldPattern[f[a,d[],b,z_]]:>{z} 
(* f[a,d[],b,c] *)

I expected that because f ...

- asked by bdforbes (14 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (8 votes)

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[What are the requirements for a well behaved indexed variable? Subscript, ToExpression, Downvalue?] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94294/what-are-the-requirements-for-a-well-behaved-indexed-variable-subscript-toexpr)

On writing this answer I needed to call a function, (NonlinearModelFit) with an unknown number of parameters.

We have learned that we should not use Subscript for indexing variables because ...

- asked by rhermans (14 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (14 votes)

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[What is wrong with RuleCondition here?] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94413/what-is-wrong-with-rulecondition-here)

Hold@1`5 /. x_Real :> RuleCondition[N@x, True] 
Hold@1`5 /. x_Real :> RuleCondition[N@2`5, True] 
Hold@2`5 /. x_Real :> RuleCondition[N@2`5, True] 
Hold@1`5 /. x_Real :> RuleCondition[N@t,  ...

- asked by Chris Chiasson (12 votes), answered by Oleksandr R. (10 votes)

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[\(\tt AddTo\) regression in v10]( http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94296/tt-addto-regression-in-v10)

As we know we can assign special addition rules to symbols by using UpValues:

ClearAll[mySymbol] 
mySymbol /: mySymbol + x_ := {mySymbol, x}

They are used when we directly add something to mySymbol

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- asked by jkuczm (12 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (6 votes)

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[Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/3069/elegant-operations-on-matrix-rows-and-columns)

Question

The Mathematica tutorial has a section ’Basic Matrix Operations’, describing operations like transpose, inverse and determinant. These operations all work on entire matrices. I am missing a ...

- asked by sjdh (90 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (31 votes)

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[What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18393/what-are-the-most-common-pitfalls-awaiting-new-users)

As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...

- asked by belisarius (266 votes), answered by Michael E2 (142 votes)

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[Interfacing Red Pitaya board with Mathematica] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94493/interfacing-red-pitaya-board-with-mathematica)

I just discovered the Red Pitaya board and borrowed a unit to play during this weekend. Surprisingly I did not find any reference to Mathematica on the Red Pitaya forum, nor did I find any reference ...

- asked by Christian Neel (6 votes)

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[Using NMaximize to get integer results for a fractional programming problem] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94549/using-nmaximize-to-get-integer-results-for-a-fractional-programming-problem)

I have an optimization problem that I am trying to model in mathematica (wolfram cloud, to be precise).

Link to notebook for code described here: ...

- asked by pyrex (3 votes)

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[How to speed up summing a large number of vectors] (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/94660/how-to-speed-up-summing-a-large-number-of-vectors)

First let me explain what I am trying to do in my code.

Assume that I send a very short chirp (2,000 ms long) into a domain filled with 20,000 particles randomly scattered in the domain.

The ...

- asked by Mahdi Razaz (3 votes)