{"id":72,"date":"2008-02-29T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T11:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-02-29T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T11:23:07","slug":"the-marriage-of-min-and-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"The marriage of min and max."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of blogs concerning topics such as numerical computing, programming and computer algebra and most of the time the subject matter can be a bit&#8230;well&#8230;hard!  The articles concerned can often be interesting and very useful but it can take a heck of a lot of concentration on my part before I can properly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grok\">grok<\/a> what the author is trying to say.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes though I come across something that is both useful and interesting and also so mind-numblingly simple that I wonder why on earth I didn&#8217;t think of it before.  A case in point is Loren&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/\">&#8220;Art of Matlab&#8221; <\/a>article called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2008\/02\/27\/should-min-and-max-marry\/\">&#8220;Should min and max marry?&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t re-iterate what she has written since she has done a great job and makes her point well.  I am also currently busy implementing her idea in a piece of code I am writing at the moment while pretending to everyone around me that its such an obvious idea that I had thought about it well in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of blogs concerning topics such as numerical computing, programming and computer algebra and most of the time the subject matter can be a bit&#8230;well&#8230;hard! The articles concerned can often be interesting and very useful but it can take a heck of a lot of concentration on my part before I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-matlab","category-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}