Scot Gould

Scot Gould

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11 years, 364 days
Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps College
Professor of Physics
Upland, California, United States
Dr. Scot Gould is a professor of physics at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges - members of The Claremont Colleges in California. He was involved in the early development of the atomic force microscope. His research has included numerous studies and experiments using scanning probe microscopes, particularly those involving natural fibers such as spider silk. More recently, he was involved in developing and sustaining AISS. This full-year multi-unit, non-traditional, interdisciplinary undergraduate science education course integrated topics from biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science. His current interest is integrating computational topics into the physics curriculum. He teaches the use of Maple's computer algebraic and numerical systems to assist students in modeling and visualizing physical and biological systems. His Dirac-notation-based quantum mechanics course is taught solely through Maple.

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@Carl Love Several years ago, in introducing one of the versions of Maple, Samir Kahn explicitly said that he and Karishma Punwani look through the questions in MaplePrimes during the previous year to help them decide what modifications to make in the new version. Samir said so again, indirectly, when he introduced 2025. Finally, some questions, problems, and requests from MaplePrimes are posted directly to the beta test website. Of course, I suspect there are other pipelines into Maplesoft. Requests from those sources may take precedence. 

Regarding the background, what you may believe is common sense is not so for other people. Personally, I find the light on dark very difficult to read. However, as someone who is probably older than you, I am sympathetic to your vision problems. When there is a monitor that is fast enough, I plan to switch to one that uses e-ink. This type of interface has been shown to cause less strain on the eye in most people than back-lit screens. 

But before then, for folks who want a different colored interface, as long as they don't desire 2d-input, like I do, aren't there code editors that one can change the color of everything? I hear that some folks are jumping to Jupyter, which somebody on MaplePrimes showed can be modified to possess a dark background. 

@acer Nothing has been reported because when it happens, I realize I forgot to add the option.

@acer Thanks for the suggestion. I've had to memorize the option and explain it to others because:

1) It comes up far more often for me and others than Maplesoft may suspect. 

2) For more complicated systems, such as Exploring a set of parameterized ODEs, it causes Maple to appear to hang. In physics, Exploring such systems is a highly useful tool. 

@nm Drag the title bar to the left or right edge of the screen to fill half the screen with that window. (Then you will be asked to fill the other half.) Drag it to the top to fill the entire screen. Drag the bottom of the window to the bottom to force the window to fill the window to fill vertically. 

@acer Is it possible to set adaptview=false as the default?

I'm glad you asked the question. The folks of Maplesoft look at questions in MaplePrimes when making changes, and I would like such a feature.

The non-Windows behavior was reported. Non-Mac issues as well. However, it sounds like there were more pressing GUI issues to solve.  In short, I believe that they are aware of the behavior.

@Paras31 If you use 2d-input, it is rare that one needs to use the D operator. I don't find it as readable as saying y'(0) = 0. But, with a multi-variable input, something needs to say to which variable is one differentiating.

Google's Gemini (free version) is incapable of answering the 2nd question. 

I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes. While I work on improving how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search.

@Aixleft math I don't know. It was there when the question was first posted, but it disappeared. 

@acer There was an attachment. And even though I have several years of coding in MATLAB, the task looked daunting. When it was posted, I thought it was a sarcastic comment about how challenging it can be to write readable code in MATLAB. 

@acer Ah, yes. I had this problem with a couple of other 3D plotting procedures that also failed in 2024, and I believe the workaround was the same.  Appreciated. 

In addition, may I suggest adding the rescaling of the axis tickmarks as an example in the help page on axis. 

@SSMB For fun, attached is an animation of your system, that is if I understand what t stands for.

control-trajectory_animation.mw

@mmcdara Salim Barzani replied to me first before deleting their comment. Then SSMB replied. 

I don't mind simple questions about Explore coming up. It helps properly feed the LLM machines. 

@Alfred_F This might help out. It looks like the antiderivative is from a table of integrals.

Integral_Problem.mw

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