https://merzba.ch/dw/ 2026-04-05T03:39:23+0200 https://merzba.ch/dw/ https://merzba.ch/dw/lib/tpl/sm/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-05-16T15:52:28+0200 sm (sm@undisclosed.example.com) https://merzba.ch/dw/blg:google_scholar_alerts Google Scholar alerts for uncited papers TL;DR: Get direct Create alert links on Google Scholar listings, even for uncited papers, by using this script in Greasemonkey (Firefox) or this script in Tampermonkey (Chrome). What are Scholar alerts? [Example Scholar alert email] If you're not familiar with it, Google Scholar has a nice feature that allows you to subscribe to new citations of existing papers, authors or search terms. This service is awesome for keeping up to date about new papers i… text/html 2018-10-15T01:07:59+0200 sm (sm@undisclosed.example.com) https://merzba.ch/dw/blg:matlab_decomposition_parfor Matlab decomposition objects in parfor In Matlab 2017b Mathworks introduced the decomposition class, which precomputes a decomposition of a linear system: >> A = rand(10000, 10000); >> b = rand(10000, 1); >> tic; x = A \ b; toc Elapsed time is 5.049433 seconds. >> tic; dA = decomposition(A); toc Elapsed time is 4.916148 seconds. >> tic; x2 = dA \ b; toc Elapsed time is 0.039961 seconds. >> nnz(x ~= x2) ans = 0