Unanswered Questions
8,485 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Hyperlinks not preserved when saving in PDF format in MMA V10
Bug introduced in 10.0 or earlier and fixed in 11.0.0
I usually create my course contracts in Mathematica and then save them in PDF format. The notebooks include hyperlinks and these have ...
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Fast Spherical Harmonics radiative transfer
This is a rather specific question and I apologize for spamming you with some lengthy code. But it could be interesting for some reader and maybe you can help out, so please bear with me.
I am using ...
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Performance problems in new Sequence functions
The new-in-10.1 Sequence* family of functions should provide newly optimized methods for handling sequence problems. Happily in some cases they do! For example ...
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Front end goes wild with named slots
Bug introduced in 10 and persisting through 12.0.0
Assume the following simple expression
{#"Test"}&
Now go in front of the ...
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Changing FrontEnd automatic scrolling in version 8
In Mathematica versions < 8, the FrontEnd has a very intelligent behavior:
On evaluation, it by default automatically scrolls down the Notebook window to the last printed Output cell but also ...
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How to design CloudObjects with reasonable CloudCredit costs
Note: I originally thought to post this as a non-answer/extended comment to this question; however I feared that I would end up hijacking the original question. It is likely a duplicate with the ...
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How to find a street pattern that fits a specific edge on a map
Cross post here
I have such funny pictures:
Very interesting,and you can get all of it by this code:
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Is MathieuC for moderately large imaginary arguments broken?
Bug introduced in 3.0 and persisting through 12.0
(reported as CASE:3208982)
I'm trying to plot MathieuC[-3,0.3,I x] for $x\in[0,10]$, and here's what I get even ...
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Benchmarking: unexplained switching between high and low performance
tl;dr I am trying to accurately benchmark some vectorized operations, and compare them between systems. But benchmarking is hard to do well, and I am getting inconsistent results: performance is ...
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Bug in RegionMember?
Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 12.0
RegionMember is new in 10.0
A commenter notes that the issue is with ...
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Handwriting recognition with Mathematica
I am trying to teach Mathematica to read my handwriting. Since I don't want to ruin my reputation by showing my own handwriting, I am going to use a font called blackjack.
Lets say this is a ...
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Nonlinear least squares on a GPU with Mathematica 9
Update: A Mathematica wrapper for (https://github.com/zitmen/cuLM) should allow for us to directly implement the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm in CUDA for nonlinear least squares fitting.
In a ...
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Kinect on Mathematica
I saw on the internet a lot of nice experiments with Microsoft Kinect. I just bought one and would like to know if someone here has been able to use it with Mathematica.
The main idea is to been able ...
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Compile not correctly initializing a variable defined inside Module
Bug introduced in 8.0, fixed in 10.4, intentionally reintroduced in 11.0 and persisting through 12.0.
In the following example, inside the minimumX's ...
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LibraryLink: What can we do with MInputStream and MOutputStream?
Version 9 introduced the WolframStreamsLibrary.h header for LibraryLink. It contains MInputStream and ...
