On 12/14/2007, I received an email from Doug Hull, who runs the Pick of the Week blog at the official MathWork’s website . In his email, he was interested in featuring blinkdagger as the Pick of the Week! Of course, we were pretty excited that a MATLAB celebrity like Doug would recognize a blog like ours. Being featured on his blog really helped us gain exposure and authority in the MATLAB niche. In addition, he even gave us some cool MATLAB t-shirts.
One thing led to another. A few weeks later, Scott Hirsch, a Program Manager at The MathWorks, asked if Quan and I would be interested in applying for a position at The MathWorks. Both of us sent in our resumes and went through the interview process.
Before I knew it, I had accepted a position at The MathWorks! My start date end of 2008. This is very significant news, and I wanted to share the news with all of our readers. Also, I forgot to mention that this is the 100th post for Blinkdagger ! Below is a quick h...
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WINNNNNNER!From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 19:03:34
The winner of the first joint-contest held by blinkdagger and wildaboutmath.com concluded this past monday.
Congratulations to Austin for being the first winner of this contest. For more details, you can go here .
If you’re curious, the answer to the math question was: 50/81 .
Be prepared for next monday, as blinkdagger will take it’s turn hosting the contest. We hope to have a fun and challenging question to stimulate your minds. The number of submittals for the last c...
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Playing Chess against a GrandmasterFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-09 23:12:07
Photo taken from Susan Polgar’s Official Site
It’s not everyday that you get to face off against a Chess grandmaster. A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go up against Susan Polgar , considered by many to be the greatest female chess player ever . Being that I am a recreational chess player at best, I did not put up much resistance. The match ended in less than an hour. Lasting an hour against Susan would have been quite the accomplishment, except she was ...
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Matlab - A Simple but Powerful Command: questdlgFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-14 22:32:21
Introduction
Sometimes, the simplest of things can prove to be quite useful. I want to promote the questdlg command within Matlab because I think its a very useful command that people either 1) overlook, or 2) does not know that it even exists! With this command, you can create a pop-up window that will ask you a question, and will allow you to choose one of the options. For instance, if we use the following code, we can create a window that queries the user for their favorite colo...
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Monday Math Madness with BlinkdaggerFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-16 23:35:55
Introduction
Daniel and I are proud to present the first Monday Math Madness here at blinkdagger!!! Two weeks ago, Sol hosted a great math contest over at wildaboutmath.com , and this week, it is our turn. We hope you find the problem to be interesting as well as challenging. The prize for this week will consist of a 10 dollar gift certificate to Amazon. Take a look at the problem statement below, and remember to read the rules as well! Also, it would be great if anyone who reads thi...
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