Questions tagged [semantic-matching]
Posts about semantic pattern matching rather than syntactic pattern matching (which is the built-in pattern matcher of Mathematica) e.g. "Why x^3 /. x^2->a doesn't work!"
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Trouble with replacement rules for squared variables [duplicate]
I want to do replacement of products (because I am dealing with abstract projectors), but Mathematica seems to fail understanding this toy example replacement :
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How to Replace 'delta t' with 'a' in Mathematica Without Affecting Separate Instances of 'delta' or 't'?
In Mathematica, how can I replace instances of delta t in an expression with a, while keeping instances of ...
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How to replace polynomials numerically? [duplicate]
We know that the value of this equation is 0
x2 y1 - x1 y2 == 0
For the following equation, there is a correlation between the polynomial parts of the known ...
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Expression substitution
I konw:
$$
a_0=\frac{4 \pi \epsilon_0 \hbar^2}{m_e e^2}
$$
and
$$
\alpha = \frac{m_{\mathrm{e}}^2 e^4}{18 \pi^3 \epsilon_0^2 \hbar^4}
$$
So we can use $a_0$ for $\alpha$,like this:
$$
\alpha=\frac{m_{\...
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Neural network: Segmentation of water and not water area
Good morning everyone. I have a large dataset of photographs similar to the one attached. It would be my intention to train a neural network to recognise water and "non-water" zones. How ...
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How to use replacement rules in a named expression before a sub-expression evaluates?
I have a named expression: expr := a + b. a and b are also named expressions.
Let's say <...
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How to replace Divide in an expression?
It seems that a/b is always replaced with the form: a * b^-1, Times[a, Power[b, -1]]. I ...
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Rule can not work? [duplicate]
For example I have this equation,I want to use c->a/b ,but it can not work
$$
\frac{a^2}{b^2}+\frac{b^2}{a^2}+\frac{a}{b}+e^{a/b}+\frac{b}{a}+\log \left(\frac{a}{b}\right)
$$
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How can I change variables, if the variables I want to change to are not directly stated in the term?
So I don't mean something like this
f[x_] = x^2
f[x] /. x^2 -> y
But what I mean is something like this:
where the variables I want to change to are defined ...
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What is a nice way to convince Mathematica to use $\tau$ instead of $\pi$ in evaluated formulas?
I have tried like
Replace[something, {2*π -> HoldForm[τ]}]
Although it works well where a lone 2 π symbol, it fails to ...
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ReplaceAll with Powers [duplicate]
If I run the following code:
a^2/b^2 /. {a/b -> c}
I'm getting output:
a^2/b^2
How can I obtain ...
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What is Wolfram's equivalent of Maple's algsubs?
Maple has two primary substitution functions.
subs - which is similar to ReplaceAll in WL.
algsubs - which does replacement but takes into account the algebraic ...
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How do you get substitution to recognize a derivative?
I have a simple expression involving a derivative:
x[t_] = Q/T[t];
Simplify[Derivative[1][x][t] /. Q -> x T[t]]
That produces:$$-\frac{x T'[t]}{T[t]}$$I have ...
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ReplaceAll (/.) not working as expected
I am trying to replace some variables in the form of n*wt with wt. However, I came across some cases where the ...
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Definition of a general rule
By defining:
rule = Sqrt[expr_^2] :> expr;
and writing:
Sqrt[x^2] /. rule
I get:
x
which is what is desired (...
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Parsing time interval strings as "Uncertain" Time Intervals
Problem: I have strings of form "[d1, d2]" or sometimes just [d1] where d1 and ...
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How to find multi-word synonyms?
I’m looking to write a semantic distance function for phrases (5 words or less) that can map multi-word synonyms together. My domain is e-commerce fashion - here are some required examples for a ...
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Using Semantic Import to do an Excel-like VLookUp using Mathematica
I'm following an example provided in the following
Stack Exchange Link
but, using a different approach. My data is contained in an Excel workbook called "Input Workbook.xlsx"
as shown here:
I ...
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"Smart" substitution of subexpressions
I have the following question.
An expression, which I want to simplify contains several subexpressions which appear quite frequently all over the place. To optimize simplification I would like to ...
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SemanticImport extremely slow with "Number" format
With the following definition:
col = "num\n" <> StringRiffle[Table[i, {i, 1000}], "\n"];
I do not understand why the ...
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Sets of identical equality/inequalities
So I've used Mathematica for some months, but I never noticed this sort of thing about it, namely:
(a > b) == (b < a)
which are supposed to be identical ...
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How to apply ReplaceAll to denominator?
Here is the simple task. In reality, it's far more complicated, but it comes down to this.
I want to take the expression $\frac{y}{x^2}$ and replace $x^2$ with $k$. This doesn't work:
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Can I simplify an expression into form which uses my own definitions?
This seems like a simple thing to do, but I couldn't find anything relevant from Mathematica documentation.
So suppose I have an expression:
a*b/(a + a*Cos[a/b])
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