Why do you come to "MATLAB Answers"?
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My answer is 'abcdefghi'. Higher priority, more important one comes first.
Post you answer. Maybe I can collect all of them and give a statistic.
a. To learn new tricks
b. To challenge myself
c. To help others
d. To improve Matlab software
e. To seek help
f. To socialize
g. To earn reputation points
h. To help Mathworks' business
i. To kill time
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Fangjun Jiang
on 15 Sep 2011
Accepted Answer
Aurelien Queffurust
on 20 May 2011
The question is "Why do you come to the "MATLAB Answers"? My answer is really simple:
>>why(393)
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Fangjun Jiang
on 20 May 2011
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Jan
on 18 May 2011
3 votes
j: Exercise my English.
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Doug Hull
on 18 May 2011
It is fine!
Jan
on 18 May 2011
@Doug: If you mean that it is a fine idea to try to improve my English: I agree. I remember my famous presentation at an international congress for biomechanics, when I talked 30 minutes about measuring the ankle angel.
Andrew Newell
on 18 May 2011
Your written English excellent is.
Jan
on 18 May 2011
Oleg thought I'm speaking Dutch. That let me think twice...
Oleg Komarov
on 18 May 2011
lol, I knew you were German and your English is perfectly fine...I just confused Dutch (and I lived in the Netherlands for 3 months, should have learnt the difference, but the only sentence I am left with is: neuken in de keuken)
Andrew Newell
on 18 May 2011
You must have fond memories of the Netherlands!
Jan
on 15 Sep 2011
Although I thought more of "d: improve Matlab", I spent more time in the last months to try to "k: improve Matlab Answers" itself. The 99 answers in Walter's wish-list are a valuable model for anybody who wants to create a forum.
Andrew Newell
on 20 May 2011
3 votes
For Walter, because even he can't answer all of the questions!
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Walter Roberson
on 20 May 2011
I'd like to thank the Hong Kong Cavaliers, without whom I would have had to AutoTune some of my Answers.
Sean de Wolski
on 18 May 2011
['a':'c' 'f' 'i']
I've learned how to program in MATLAB pretty much exclusively from CSSM and Answers. The quick fun challenges/socialization with people from all over the world are an added benefit.
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per isakson
on 14 Feb 2012
That one was new to me:)
Andy
on 18 May 2011
2 votes
When Answers was first instituted, I didn't really see the need for it in addition to CSSM. But it does seem to have a bit higher signal to noise ratio, and I like the instantaneous posting (rather than waiting minutes for CSSM posts to show). I'll go with abcdei.
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Sean de Wolski
on 18 May 2011
I like the formatting, ease of posting images, comments on a post, ratings to see what others recommend, and general layout. I do miss the fact that CSSM had many more contributors so I still read it occasionally.
Andy
on 18 May 2011
I like some of the formatting. I would really like to be able to use markup in comments.
Matt Fig
on 18 May 2011
2 votes
All of the above, more or less, and ranked differently according to my mood and need or both. ;-)
Frank
on 20 May 2011
why(2^32-5)
:^)
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Randy Souza
on 20 May 2011
I voted you up to prove the point :-)
Oleg Komarov
on 18 May 2011
1 vote
abcegi
Listed in alphabetical order, you wanna how I rank them, no wayyyyy.
Jonathan
on 18 May 2011
1 vote
a, b, c, i
Andrew Newell
on 18 May 2011
choices = 'abcefgi';
disp(choices(randperm(length(choices))))
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Jan
on 20 May 2011
Use FEX:Shuffle to compute this more efficiently: "Shuffle('abcefgi')"
Matt Tearle
on 20 May 2011
How about randsample('abcdefghi',9)?
(Requires Stats TB)
Andrew Newell
on 20 May 2011
Yep, 'a' is definitely coming out in front today.
Paulo Silva
on 19 May 2011
j. To waste time
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Sean de Wolski
on 19 May 2011
I've thought about this quite a bit: though I do spend a fair amount of time on here, the wealth of knowledge I've acquired from here (and CSSM) over the years has made it so when I'm actually writing code it happens much faster with fewer bugs and with a result of greater quality. It also trains you do look at other people's code (common mistakes, slow stuff etc.) which has helped me help other people in the lab more efficiently.
Jan
on 20 May 2011
I waste a lot of time due to the keyboard latency (described elsewhere already).
I'm not sure how to treat questions with missing details *efficiently*: The standard "please post any details" is useful, if the people take the time for thinking twice until they can define the problem exactly - usually this involves the answer already. But unfortunately too many people do not explain the details, but simply do not care anymore. Then asking for details is a waste of time.
Jan
on 20 May 2011
@Paulo: What is the difference between "kill time" and "waste time"?
Sean de Wolski
on 20 May 2011
"To kill time" is it make it pass when you have to. Perhaps if you were waiting at an airport, you would kill the time until your flight by watching tv or reading a magazine. "To waste time" is to spend your time doing something other than what you should, perhaps logging onto Facebook at work.
Paulo Silva
on 20 May 2011
@Jan, Sean answered for me and did a good work, I do find this place to be good for learning but most of the time we are answering repeated questions and things that most users would find on the documentation and/or newsgroups.
Chien-Chia Huang
on 19 May 2011
1 vote
abef and, when well trained, c. "MATLAB Answers" is a great place where I get surprised coz being here I'm always like a layman to MATLAB. Many thanks to all the guys who did and do help.:)
James Tursa
on 19 May 2011
1 vote
j. To see how much farther back my reputation points are compared to Walter and Matt.
Grzegorz Knor
on 15 Sep 2011
1 vote
Moreover: a - b - c - j (exercise my English).
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Jan
on 15 Sep 2011
Hi Grzegorz! Now we are two English learners.
Richard Brown
on 19 Apr 2012
1 vote
When I get blocked with my research, here at least I can make an epsilon contribution to something ...
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Adam Danz
on 19 Jul 2019
+1 I feel ya!
madhan ravi
on 19 Jul 2019
1 vote
Addiction:
1) Lend a hand.
2) Being helped.
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Rik
on 19 Jul 2019
Is addiction a typo? If not, have my +1 to fuel that addiction.
madhan ravi
on 19 Jul 2019
Edited: madhan ravi
on 19 Jul 2019
>:D<
Matt Tearle
on 20 May 2011
why(416)
why(9816)
Or, failing that,
why(22)
The first two are actually fairly accurate! In many ways, I guess it's (h), partly by doing (c) and partly by seeing what MATLAB users want to know, what they're struggling with, what they're trying to do, etc.
But pretty much (a)-(i) to some degree, plus (j): I'm a massive dork.
K E
on 19 Apr 2012
0 votes
I don't work with any Simulink experts, just a group of self-taught beginners. Answers provides me with a link to experts; several are active here. I feel obliged to help other learners and can actually contribute something because the same starter questions reappear often.
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Sean de Wolski
on 19 Apr 2012
You'll find helping others really helps your _actual understanding_ as well!
Rik
on 19 Jul 2019
That's also my experience.
Lukas
on 20 Apr 2012
a. To learn new tricks
b. To challenge myself
e. To seek help
I think the collective knowledge of the group of people that are on here can solve almost any problem when working with MATLAB. The real challenge, is effectively tapping into that knowledge.
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