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Szabolcs Horvát
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I was wondering what the intended purpose of the `ByteArray` type was. The cryptography functionality seems to be using it. And in version 11.1 we have `BinarySerialize`, which [people are also a bit confused about][1] (including myself, so...
*[This is a cross post from StackExchange](https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/141776/j-link-stealing-focus-from-the-front-end-on-os-x-workaround)* ---- Calling `getDefaultToolkit()` through J/Link causes the Front End to lose...
*[This is a cross-post from StackExchange.](https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/140962/how-to-add-example-links-to-documentation-pages)* ---- The Details section of documentation pages often contains ">>" links to the examples...
The only way I know of to access the clipboard in Mathematica is by reading `ClipboardNotebook[]`: NotebookGet@ClipboardNotebook[] (I do not know if `ClipboardNotebook` can take any arguments.) `Paste` uses this as well. There are...
This is a cross-post of a question I asked today on [StackExchange][1]. ---- _**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...
Some time ago I published a blog post about combination tones and the nonlinearity of the human ear. * [Combination tones: Demonstrating the nonlinearity of the human ear](http://szhorvat.net/pelican/combination-tones.html) Per request, I will...
Do you ever wish you could save data directly into a notebook instead of having to export it? I sometimes do things like mydata = {1,2,3, ...}; just to be able to use this data next time I open the notebook. This could be data I pasted...
This is a photo of some tree branches that I took at the park today. [ ](http://community.wolfram.com//c/portal/getImageAttachment?filename=20170304_121322.jpg&userId=38370) It looks like a fractal, and a nice candidate for measuring the...
I noticed that a new version of the Workbench Eclipse plugin was released. The version number is 10.1.811. Is there a list of changes that we can look at?
I would like to share some thoughts about package initialization. As always, I post these ideas in the hope to stimulate discussion between package developers, hopefully get some feedback and learn something. It is more efficient if we learn from...