3.17.1 Top new questions this week

3.17.1.1 How to improve this plot?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129426/how-to-improve-this-plot

 
In general, the quality of Mathematica graphics is beyond praise. 
However,  the  output of Plot3D command is somewhat unexpected in the following code. Let's solve the Dirichlet problem for the  ...
 

- asked by user64494 (11 votes), answered by Simon Woods (16 votes)

3.17.1.2 Neural Networks: Does Mathematica (v11) experimental code support state-of-art Models?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129469/neural-networks-does-mathematica-v11-experimental-code-support-state-of-art-m

 
Mathematica made a big step implementing Neural Networks. I checked some examples for deep learning (ChainNet), also the related link. I see that model structures such as LaNet can be developed.  ...
 

- asked by s.s.o (10 votes), answered by Alexey Golyshev (8 votes)

3.17.1.3 Converting Game of Life images to lists

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129135/converting-game-of-life-images-to-lists

 
I want to convert images of GoL configurations into binary matrices to run in Mathematica's CellularAutomaton. I know that there's a collection of GoL patterns inhttp://conwaylife.com and other  ...
 

- asked by andandandand (10 votes), answered by C. E. (5 votes)

3.17.1.4 JDBC-to-ODBC bridge gone. How to connect to SQL Server now in case of Windows Authentication?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129160/jdbc-to-odbc-bridge-gone-how-to-connect-to-sql-server-now-in-case-of-windows-au

 
Connecting to our corporate SQL servers using JDBC never worked for me, perhaps related to the Windows Authentication method that is necessary in our network. However, I found out that configuring the  ...
 

- asked by Sjoerd C. de Vries (8 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (6 votes)

3.17.1.5 How to speed up calculations on big symbolic matrices?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129465/how-to-speed-up-calculations-on-big-symbolic-matrices

 
 
this is my first time posting something on a community of the StackExchange platform, so please feel free to correct me if I'm doing something wrong. :) Additionally you should probably know that I'm  ...
 

- asked by TSwift 8votes

3.17.1.6 How do I 'Join' two Structured Datasets?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129116/how-do-i-join-two-structured-datasets

 
Consider the following Datasets 
 
dsCompetitions with fields {"id","name","eventTypeId"} 
 
dsEventTypes with fields {"id", "name"} 
 
 
I want to join the datasets as follows using SQL pseudocode: 
 
SELECT  ...
 

- asked by nilo de roock (8 votes), answered by rcollyer (7 votes)

3.17.1.7 Why isn't Orderless an Attribute of And?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/129415/why-isnt-orderless-an-attribute-of-and

 
In standard logic And is a commutative operator. Still, in Mathematica, And doesn't have the Orderless attribute: 
 
Attributes[And] 
(* {Flat,HoldAll,OneIdentity,Protected} *) 
 
 
This may have not been  ...
 

- asked by Soldalma (7 votes), answered by JHM (6 votes)