Mike Croucher
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.
- I just bench pressed 120kg for the first time in my life. I’m 48. I’m happy!
- Interesting article on AI Coding Assistants where the author suggests that they are getting worse and that maybe its partially the fault of all the newbies using them leading to bad training data. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-de... What's your experience?
- Reposted by Mike CroucherThe free AI-powered workspace for scientists has drawn immediate skepticism from researchers who fear the tool will accelerate the already overwhelming flood of low-quality papers into scientific journals.
- My desktop PC is 5 years old and showing its age. What do you suggest I look at for a new machine for scientific computing? The current specs are - Intel i7-11700 with 32GB RAM - NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU - 1TB SSD + 1TB HDD disk space
- I caved in and bought an air fryer. So far I am deeply unimpressed. Deeply! Hoping that its because I haven’t figured out how to use it properly yet and not because it was an overrated piece of tat.
- I have done absolutely nothing today! It was glorious and I highly recommend it.
- This article from The Guardian discusses many of my own concerns about AI right now: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- My current use for ChatGPT is translating the gen Z slang that my step daughter uses when she texts me
- Needed to do a computer thing so opened my notes file HowToDoThing.md it contained one line: TODO: Write detailed notes about thing. Sometimes I hate lazy, past Mike!
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- #SC25 was the best one I’ve ever attended….and not just because I got to meet Thor.
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- If you’re in St Louis for #SC25 I highly recommend going up the arch. Here’s one of the views from the top where you can also see its shadow
- Have spent most of the day travelling to #SC25 and am just about to start the final leg. Taking off from Atlanta on my way to St Louis
- 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...
- 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/...
- Reposted by Mike Croucher"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...
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- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Is anyone doing computational research without any AI component?
- 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...
- Reposted by Mike CroucherWe are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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- 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!
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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 - 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.
- Sowjanya Pandruju from AWS discussing the different levels of the AI DevOps spectrum at #RSECon25
- And so it begins. #RSEcon25
- I’m on my way!
- 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...
- 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.
- “Knowing when to use AI turns out to be a form of wisdom, not just technical knowledge.” www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-t...
- 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/...
- I'm a huge fan of Rory Sutherland. Can't get enough of his content www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tvb...
- 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
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- MATLAB has added support for single precision sparse matrices. -Single sparse can save memory. -Single sparse can be faster. -Supported on CPU, GPU and in Distributed Arrays -Get style tips on how to use single precision sparse matrices in your code Details: blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...
- While on vacation to Mexico this year i discovered tamarind candies such as the one in the picture and now I’m obsessed! Need to find a source in the UK as I’m running low on supplies.
- MATLAB 2025a was released back in May and it was huge! In case you missed it, here's my write-up of all my favorite new features. blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2025/...
- Software testing in MATLAB is easier to do and better than ever. If you want to get started, then check out this recent video tutorial that one of my colleagues delivered as part of the HiRSE seminar series on testing cc @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social #RSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3M...
