Steve Eddins

Great -- the latest trend is for phishing emails to look like Git notifications. This one came in through a single-use email address that I use only for my @ticketmaster.com login. So thanks for spreading my email address around, Ticketmaster.

There is no one in the Trump administration, or in the collection of Trump sycophants and cultists throughout government, who is capable of understanding the point of this cartoon. xkcd.com/3290/ @xkcd.com

Garrett Graff quotes Nicholas Grossman: “Evidence keeps accumulating that LLMs are a powerfully useful technology for people who already know what they're talking about, and a dangerous outsourcing of cognitive function for people who don't. Exactly. I’ve heard both parts from my colleagues.

New horn-related blog post: Hazel's Practice Wheel A tool for randomly selecting from a variety of practice techniques. steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ha...

New blog post: Comparing Processes -- With and Without "AI" When comparing developer-written code with “AI”-written code, remember to consider the value of other process outcomes, not just the code itself. steveeddins.com/blog/general...

New blog post: History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 5: 1997-1998, MATLAB 5, and Image Processing Toolbox 2 "MATLAB 5 saved image processing in MATLAB." At long last, I have continued my series about the evolution of image display in MATLAB. steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

New horn-related blog post: Arpeggio Range Expansion Exercise Expanding the high range using a slurred arpeggio exercise that includes a held upper note, slurring down and back up to it, and holding it again. steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ar... #frenchhorn #horn

Kudos to the MathWorks folks that worked on the External Languages panel.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

I just saw the New York Times obituary for Cleve Moler. I noticed that the reporter who wrote it posted a wonderful note in the comments section just below the article. Here is a gift (paywall-free) link to the article: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

New blog post: IMVIEW v4 Version 4 of imview, my replacement for imshow, supports the Live Editor, improves the positioning of the zoom-level display field, and changes the required MATLAB release to R2026a. #matlab steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

New blog post: Hazard Ahead: A Dangerous Rest A short rest in the middle of a musical line causes me trouble in the high range. steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ha...

I took me a week before I was ready to try to write this one. Remembering Cleve Moler (1936-2026) Cleve Moler, creator of MATLAB and co-founder of MathWorks, hero to many engineers and scientists, was a world champion story teller. #cleve #matlab #mathworks steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

It's a sad day at MathWorks with the news that Cleve Moler, creator of #MATLAB and cofounder of #MathWorks, has passed away. We will miss you dearly, Cleve!

We need a seashell font.

New horn-related blog post: Corner Engagement and the Bottom Lip Exploring a more dynamic relationship between the corners and the bottom lip for better tone and improved stability up and down the range. #frenchhorn www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/co...

Congress needs to get AG Pamela Bondi back to testify under oath about why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down under 48,000.

I just seem to be in a thinly populated intergalactic dust cloud.

New blog post: Getting forScore Back into Full-Screen Mode in iPadOS 26 How to get forScore back into full-screen mode, and other info regarding window and multitasking changes in iPadOS 26. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/fo...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

New blog post: History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 4: 1993-1997, IMSHOW, TRUESIZE, and Image Display Size The challenge of displaying images in MATLAB when your early 1990s computer monitor just didn’t have enough pixels. #matlab www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

Amen.

Front and back

New blog post: Improved Registration Algorithm for IMREGCORR Substantial improvements for function IMREGCORR, which registers image pairs using similarity, rigid, and translation transformations. #matlab www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

The four Nazgûl pursuing Gandalf forsake the chase and turn back south. Three ride for the Last Bridge to prevent the Ring from crossing it. The land is growing rocky, so Gandalf sends Shadowfax back to Rohan. The wizard sets out on an eleven-day hike through the Ettenmoors.

New blog post: Using AirPods Pro for Hearing Protection A report from a horn pro, and my own experiments, about using AirPods Pro 2 or 3 for hearing protection in orchestra. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/he...

New blog post: iPad Recommendations for Use with forScore Considerations and recommendations for choosing an iPad model for use with forScore. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ip...

New blog post: Making a Simple Two-State Map with Landmarks Using MATLAB and Mapping Toolbox to make a simple map of two states with some point and path landmarks. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab

New blog post: forScore Interface Changes forScore version 15, released at the same time as iPadOS 26, has significant interface changes motivated by Apple’s new iPad menu and windowing changes. Check it out before your next rehearsal or concert www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/fo... #forscore

New blog post: News, Newsletters, Social Media, Email Inboxes, and RSS Using new apps and an old technology (RSS) to cope with an increasingly fragmented flow of news and information. Inspired by @molly.wiki. www.steveeddins.com/blog/general...

New blog post: "Image Processing Example: Processing a Lake Image" Creating a two-color thumbnail lake image from original GIS image with extraneous details. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab #imageprocessing

New blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 3: 1993, Image Processing Toolbox 1, and IMSHOW" The new toolbox supported more image display models (beyond indexed images). www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

Read this book!

I read about this and had to try it myself. This is a screenshot of my phone after running the search “oreo spelled backwards” directly on Google. Check out the “AI” response.

New MATLAB blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 2: 1990, MATLAB 4, Handle Graphics, and the IMAGE object" #matlab #imageprocessing www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

New blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 1: Before 1990" A brief summary of the early years of digital image processing, and of early versions of MATLAB before 1990. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab

New blog post: "Mid-Phrase Brain Freeze" In a recent chamber music dress rehearsal, my opening phrase was a train wreck. Mental rehearsal before the performance was my fix. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/mi... #frenchhorn

New MATLAB blog post: "Motivations for Sharing Code" My thoughts on a MATLAB Discussions thread about reasons that researchers might benefit from actively sharing their code. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

New horn blog post: "Hazard Ahead: Dangerous Line Break" I started using a new symbol in my parts to help avoid trouble. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ha...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

New blog post: "Website changes on July 19 affect appearance, content organization, mailing lists, RSS feeds, and comments. Mailing list subscribers and RSS feed users may see a repeat notification of some previously published posts."

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.