Ned Gulley
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I work on the MATLAB Central and MATLAB Interface teams. See also http://www.starchamber.com/
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Ned Gulley submitted Solution 261613 to Problem 1634. Kurchan Square - Evaluation Function
on 14 Jun 2013 at 22:42
Ned Gulley submitted Solution 261606 to Problem 1634. Kurchan Square - Evaluation Function
on 14 Jun 2013 at 22:28
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1589. calculate linear convolution two vectors
I fixed the test suite so the number of parameters is correct.
on 11 Jun 2013 at 2:06
Ned Gulley submitted Solution 253949 to Problem 1533. Criss-Cross Verification: NHL
on 4 Jun 2013 at 15:06
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1534. Sort (high on middle, low on ends)
Hi Franek:
Thanks for creating a problem! It's a little ambiguous right now (see @andrea84's comment above). There is more than one answer as currently defined. Could you please clarify it?
on 3 Jun 2013 at 18:46
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1531. The rabbit problem
Hi Hussam. Thanks for the problem. The Fibonacci sequence can start different ways. Can you provide a specific example or two so there's no ambiguity?
on 30 May 2013 at 18:55
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 250525
I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion. The example given says fib(5) should be 5. Your code returns 15.
on 29 May 2013 at 14:46
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 250534
The error for Test 1 says "Output argument 'output' (and maybe others) not assigned". Close examination of your code reveals that when x is 1 and y is 2, you go down the first switch of the outer "if" statement, and sure enough, output never gets assigned and the function fails.
on 29 May 2013 at 14:41
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 460. Replace May with April
I went ahead and added some more tests.
on 28 May 2013 at 15:11
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1515. Procrustean bed
I love vector problems with classically-inspired titles! Good old Procrustes...
on 21 May 2013 at 14:56
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1488. Generate binary combinations for a given number of bit(s)
I cleaned up the problem statement and fixed the first test.
on 6 May 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1451. Symmetry of vector
I updated test case #3.
on 2 May 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1448. Create Volcano (or Atoll) martix. It is an extension of Bullseye matrix problem.
You should call this a volcano matrix!
on 24 Apr 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1451. Symmetry of vector
I fixed the wording.
on 24 Apr 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1384. Who invented zero?
Hi Harish:
Keep in mind that fill-in-the-blank style questions aren't a great match for Cody since competitors can always inspect the test suite.
on 26 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1378. Young's modulus
I went ahead and fixed the function calls in the test suite.
on 25 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley liked Problem 1376. Find names/words that start and end with the same letter.
on 25 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 45. Make a Palindrome Number
That function is in the Bioinformatics Toolbox (http://www.mathworks.com/help/bioinfo/ref/seqreverse.html). Cody permits only MATLAB functions.
on 21 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1371. Altitude of locations on the earth
Dan, could you provide some more specifics here? Altitude in meters, feet, or furlongs? Against what reference? Number of significant digits you expect? Latitude and longitude are in decimal degrees? An example would also help.
on 21 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 217288
dec2bin returns a string. This problem is looking for numbers.
on 15 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 55. Counting Sequence
My mistake guys. Sorry about that. By the way, these comments are very helpful for adding (and fixing) bad test cases. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
on 14 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 98447
Thanks for the additional test question!
on 13 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 174526
I see two problems. It needs to be a function (as modeled by the template), and the input command hangs and times out when called by a web service.
on 12 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 214056
Done. People never get tired of look-up tables.
on 12 Mar 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 207786
To keep Cody from degenerating into a bunch of unreadable party tricks, we've blocked usage of eval, evalc, and a few others. But regexp is too important for us to block, so this trick will remain available into the foreseeable future. Which means, to back up Alfonso's comment, please don't abuse it. It's funny once, and then it just gets annoying.
on 27 Feb 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 208601
Yes... sorry about that. It turns out the STR2FUNC function was being badly abused in the name of writing short answers. Since we saw almost no places where it was being used responsibly, we decided to invalidate all answers with STR2FUNC. It's a compromise, but we think on balance that it's the right thing to do.
on 25 Feb 2013
Ned Gulley submitted Problem 1288. Balanced Ternary Numbers: Easy as |, |-, |o to Community
on 21 Feb 2013
Ned Gulley submitted Problem 1286. MatCAT - Reconstruct X from Its X-rays to Community
on 21 Feb 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1247. When can one be the Life Member of the IEEE?
I fixed the obvious typo with the "yy".
on 5 Feb 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 420. Sum the Infinite Series II
There seems to be agreement that test case 3 has issues. Since the original author never returned, I commented out that test case.
on 15 Jan 2013
Ned Gulley submitted Solution 189967 to Problem 1194. Replace multiples of 5 with NaN
on 11 Jan 2013
Ned Gulley submitted Solution 189635 to Problem 1194. Replace multiples of 5 with NaN
on 11 Jan 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1074. Property dispute!
I fixed the test suite, which had a problem described by Alfonso below.
on 2 Jan 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Solution 180722
My apologies. I don't know why I had this wrong before, but according to my description, yes, test 3 should return [].
on 2 Jan 2013
Ned Gulley submitted a Comment to Problem 1035. Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4
Your function has to use exactly the same name that is provided in the function template. In this case, the function must be called "you_fcn_name". You wrote a function called "GenerateVector". Change the name of your function and it should pass.
on 24 Dec 2012