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Mike Croucher
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I’m here to discuss Mathematics, Research Software Engineering, Machine Learning and #HPC.

I was @walkingrandomly on twitter

Now a Community Developer Advocate at MathWorks.
Author of The MATLAB Blog.
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Mike Croucher @walkingrandomly.bsky.social · Nov 25
The #HPC starter pack has been used by many people new to BlueSky who want to immediately start following a decent cross-section of the HPC community

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Are you going to be at #SC25? Want to connect with a large subset of the #HPC community with one click? The #HPC starter pack is what you need! bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
MathWorks release MATLAB MCP Core server

In the video below you are watching Claude read a file on my local machine and use my local install of MATLAB to analyze it. Claude writes the MATLAB code,puts it on my machine and runs it using my copy of MATLAB

Article: blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
olivia.science
"We were raised to believe over the decades that machines will outgrow us[, but] automatons are not consuming the globe brilliantly. They are not outsmarting us—they are overfitting on us."

Snehamol Joseph & Jeena Joseph (2025)
Digital decay: when AI eats its own homework doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Unless AI is kept in check, it will not only eat its own homework but it will also eat its legibility. We will lose the skill to distinguish a composition of a type of work, a deliberate work, against a hybrid work, a piece of work, an argument, fabricated out of past fragments. Audiences will be conditioned to believe that good enough is good enough, until even mediocrity will seem like plenty. Culture will be turned into monocropped and deprived of nutrients. The creative commons will be exhausted. And as is soil when it is overfarmed, once lost, it will not be easily recovered. Let us not flatter ourselves. It is not that AI will soon surpass us in thinking, it is more likely that it will surpass us in boring. When we leave machines to eat their own homework we are not training a generation of geniuses but beige. The cry is straight: do not confuse abundance with richness, fluency with thought, content with creation. Surprise still matters. Originality is not luxury but lifeline. Unless we defend it, we will drown in competence without creation.
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
steveeddins.com
New blog post: Improved Registration Algorithm for IMREGCORR

Substantial improvements for function IMREGCORR, which registers image pairs using similarity, rigid, and translation transformations.

#matlab

www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
juliettewade.bsky.social
Zoom in on that Venn diagram.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
October 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
Don't do this....
matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -nodesktop -r "myscript;exit"

Do this
matlab -nodisplay -batch myscript

Here's why
blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...

#MATLAB #HPC
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
I feel these vibes very strongly. I use LLMs all the time and understand them in much more detail than most of the people who insist I should use them more!

When I point out weaknesses of the tech, I get accused of being an anti tech luddite who doesn’t get it.
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · Oct 10
One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
I held a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 recently and it was the first time in years that I had genuine gadget lust. I really wanted it!

I moved from android to iPhone a few years ago solely for improved battery life but this almost made me go back….almost.
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
Is anyone doing computational research without any AI component?
October 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
The latest #MATLAB Pick of The Week is k-wave. An open source MATLAB Community Toolbox designed for time domain acoustic and ultrasound simulations in complex and tissue-realistic media. The associated paper has been cited over 2600 times

blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2025/09...
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
danielskatz.org
In a discussion with publishers this morning, we were reminded of this Springer Nature data showing that 19% - 66% of paper authors develop new software as part of their research, where the 19% is more or less for all fields, and the 66% is for computational science.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
In my day, '42' was the number we'd try to force into everything. Want to see a random number generator? '42'
Choose a number between 1 and 100? '42'

Now it seems to be 67 and I have no idea why!
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
uomresearchit.bsky.social
Looking for ways to improve your #Matlab code? Have a chat with our Research Software Engineers!
They can help with a wide variety of research software and help you get the most out of it.
From 80 days to 4 minutes: Supercharging MATLAB
Research IT recently hosted Mike Croucher from MathWorks for a workshop demonstrating how MATLAB can go from sluggish to lightning-fast. Through smart code optimisations and GPU acceleration, Mike…
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September 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Reposted by Mike Croucher
corticalpete.bsky.social
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic
Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.
academic.oup.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
Job alert! I know a lot of #HPC people follow me here so if any of you are looking for a new gig, maybe this one at MathWorks is for you.

lnkd.in/efa8iPkZ

You don't even need to know any MATLAB...we can teach you that. Your HPC/parallel chops are what we are looking for.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Sowjanya Pandruju from AWS discussing the different levels of the AI DevOps spectrum at #RSECon25
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
And so it begins. #RSEcon25
September 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I’m on my way!
society-rse.org Society of RSE @society-rse.org · Sep 6
📣 🎉 RSECon25 🎉 📣

3 days until RSECon25 kicks off at University of Warwick

- Program virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75166/...
- Google Calendar bit.ly/4m6Ce2v
- Announcements @rseconbot bsky.app/@rseconbot
- Join the RSECon25 Slack rsecon25.slack.com
- Use #rsecon25
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virtual.oxfordabstracts.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
I made a video for MATLAB users who want to take their first steps into getting code up on GitHub. Includes how to let anyone in the world run your code -- even without a MATLAB license.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rRD...
Take Your MATLAB Code to GitHub
YouTube video by MATLAB
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
I deliver High Performance Computing workshops in MATLAB for free! If you are at a University in the UK and would like a similar session to the one Manchester had, let's talk.
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
“Knowing when to use AI turns out to be a form of wisdom, not just technical knowledge.”

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-t...
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
www.oneusefulthing.org
August 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
The MATLAB documentation is pretty great and now we've sprinkled a little (but not too much!) AI over it. The result works well! Check out the details in my latest article

blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...
Screenshot of the AI generate portion of a query to MATLAB's documentation
August 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
I'm a huge fan of Rory Sutherland. Can't get enough of his content www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tvb...
Rory Sutherland - Why Business Is A Casino
YouTube video by Jimmy's Jobs of the Future
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August 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
walkingrandomly.bsky.social
I pre-ordered this yesterday! I was a gamer when the original NEOGEO was a thing but there was no way on earth I could afford the cartridges back then. Rich man's game!

Now you can get 6 NEOGEO games for 20 notes! Can't wait to play against my wife on my Evercade VS
evercade.co.uk Evercade @evercade.co.uk · Aug 21
Prepare for one of the best fighting games on Evercade! THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2000 is part of NEOGEO Arcade 1, releasing next week.

Preorders still open!
August 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM