Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Regarding the level of questions to be asked on TCS / SE CS / SO / SE Prog
I've posted my first question:
To what extent can an algorithm predict the time complexity an arbitrary input program?
Which admittedly is not a graduate-level question, and thus not covered under ...
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Editing versus rewriting other people's answers
If you come across a question which has been answered correctly, but in a fashion that would require effectively a total rewrite to make it (in your opinion) understandable for the question-asker and ...
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How to withdraw close votes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reversing a vote to close
I was recently browsing the questions and by accident (I thought I was in a different tab) voted to close a question off-topic:
Can quantum ...
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Status of Our Community Blog
What is the status of our community blog? There haven't been any new posts in about 5 months.
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How-To Use/Tips & Tricks
Is there a need for a How-To Use or Tips & Tricks page? If so, what would be on it?
(Tips and tricks include searching, urlencoding, markdown, how to see mathjax input, special question urls, ...
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On modifying our scope: A proposal
There's been a lot of chatter of late about our scope, the declining number of questions being asked per day, and whether we're being excessively strict about question scope.
This question is ...
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Why are we getting more off-topic questions?
You may be wondering why we are getting off-topic question more often recently even though now CS.SE exists.
I think part of the reason is that we had done a too good promotion (cannot complain ...
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Would a question on designing a compression algorithm belong on CSTheory?
Some time ago, I asked Compression of domain names on StackOverflow.
I've been wondering whether it wouldn't be more suited to CSTheory, but when I suggested to the SO mods that it be migrated the ...
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Asking Big-picture/Soft/List/Broad questions
In the interest of focusing this question (or making a new question inspired by this one), what about asking something like "What open problems in TCS have been raised by the LHC experiments?" I'm ...
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tags: renaming "matrix-product" to "matrix-multiplication"
I feel that we should rename matrix-product to matrix-multiplication since it seems it is the more common terminology.
Any opinions?
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One Day Anonymous Users
I am not happy with people making an anonymous username, asking a question, getting the answer and then deleting that user name withing 24-48 hours. It has been happening for sometime now. I do not ...
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Please avoid boilerplate comments
I wonder who on earth would be happy to read a series of long, boilerplate comments such as:
Welcome to cstheory, a Q&A site for research-level questions in theoretical computer science (TCS). ...
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What is the difference between the tags lg.learning and machine-learning?
We have two relatively popular tags lg.learning (53 questions) and machine-learning (75 questions). However, I am not sure where the line between the two is drawn. For lg.learning wiki we have:
Tag ...
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tags: "fourier" vs "fourier-analysis"
We have two tags that seem to mean the same thing. Should we merge them? If yes, what should be the main tag?
fourier
fourier-analysis
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Theoretical Computer Science Top User Swag
As a thank you for being awesome, if you are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
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Are graph visualisation algorithm questions in the scope of cstheory.stackexchange.com?
I'm looking for the most suitable place to ask a question about an algorithm for layouting a mixed constituency/dependency tree. Theoretical Computer Science seemed a good starting point, as it has a ...
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RFC: On using cstheory's data dump to create an ontology of questions in tcs
Could we use the data dump that stack exchange publishes for theoretical computer science and create an ontology out of it? The data is heavily structured and the things I can think of what we could ...
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Is there a way to filter users?
Is there there be a way to filter a user and hide it from discussion without downvoting? Or even filter a topic from the main stream? Since there isn't would this be a feature that people would want?
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Petition for Open Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research [closed]
Probably most have heard about this, but just in case someone has missed it, here is a short post and a longer post.
The petition itself is here. You may want to check the Access2Research site and ...
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Should I ask this question now, which would be crossposted and on CSTheory history?
I'm asking this question about the history of computation. It's currently active, so I'm wondering if crossposting, in this case, would be ok. It's also on the history of computation, but some may ...
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MathJax buttons/hotkeys script
I've written a script that lets you insert dollar symbols automatically(via a keyboard shortcut or button) in the editor window on Stack Exchange sites that support MathJax. You guys also get a ...
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Is a question about network analysis via mean-field theory type approaches on topic?
TCS seems to study networks, but I seldom see mean-field theory approaches (which come from statistical-mechanics) used by computer scientists. Hence, I am unsure if the following question from the ...
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Theoretical Physics is being closed, do we want some of their questions?
TP.SE is closing and it seems that the questions/answers will be migrated in-bulk to physics.SE. The site is research level, and was founded with support and participation of many of our community. Do ...
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Do we need the tag graph-algorithms? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should the tag [graph-algorithms] be used?
Do we really need the graph-algorithms tag? Isn't ds.algortihms and graph-theory sufficient?
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Is a question about research level practices appropriated to this community?
this is my first post here (at this community, although I know Kaveh from CS).
Since this is related to CS and Research I would be very much interested as an undergraduate and researcher assistant to ...
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Migrating to cs.SE as a "flag" option
Currently non-moderators can flag off-topic posts and suggest that it either belongs in meta or on stackoverflow. It seems that cs.SE is a target that makes at least as much sense as stackoverflow for ...
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Migrating to cs.SE
We have a few questions where it seemed like cs.SE might be their natural home. For example,
Learning Automated Theorem Proving (just migrated)
Is there some other way to describe a formal language ...
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When should I really flag or vote down?
Sorry if this has already been asked, I could not find an appropriate answer and I want to make sure that I understand these features.
Question: what's the most correct way to use flags and down-...
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Computer Science Stack Exchange
Update:
The Computer Science - Stack Exchange has entered public beta.
The Computer Science proposal is almost there and only needs 12 more commitments. You should commit soon if you are interested ...
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Flags with more colors?
Related question.
When you flag a question as "it does not belong to this site", you end-up in the following menu.
The question is, could it be useful to include some more choices in this menu such ...
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Unanswered Question Statistics
Do the moderators have monthly (or, daily, yearly) statistics for the number of new questions on TCS, and what fraction of questions remain with 0 answers?
Every time I visit TCS I get a weird ...
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Request For Comment: the scope of Computational Sciences proposal
While checking computational science meta today, I noticed that my perception about the proposal/site might not be true. mbq, the original person behind the proposal is not that much involved anymore ...
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Do we need both the [career] and [employment] tags?
We seem to have two tags career and employment about career advice in TCS. Currently, career has 21 questions, and employment has 3 questions where each one has also been tagged as career.
Do we need ...
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Project topic questions and tag
There is a recent posts about project topic that has already generated 3 answers:
Advantages and specific applications of massively parallel programming thesis idea
I thought this was against our ...
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arXiv trackbacks
I just noticed that TP.SE now gets arXiv trackbacks.
Should we also ask for it? What do you think?
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Consolidating answers? What's the best practice?
On this question I posted an answer, which points to a survey paper which could answer his question, but I didn't have the time or expertise to fully answer the question myself. Later, another user ...
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The trouble-with-paper tag
I think trouble-with-paper is not a useful tag. I suggest that we remove it (by merging with tag-removed).
update:
Tags for non soft questions are mainly used for subject classification and for ...
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Cstheory meetup at SODA?
Anyone going to Kyoto next week? How about a Cstheory meetup there? I'll be there for the 3 days of SODA, not analco/anelex. I happen to live near Kyoto, in Nara. So I know the place a little bit. We ...
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Moving relevant but possibly-below-level questions to chat ?
A main source of reasonable closed questions that we have are questions that are just below research-level: maybe they're really advanced undergraduate questions, or intro grad-level questions that ...
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Simple questions during reading papers
Currently I'm reading some few papers, sometimes I think something is wrong or I can't understand it, So I'll ask it in CSTheory, but simple comment helps me to find out my problem, after that I'll ...
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On conventions for citation, acknowledgement and authorship
Is it worth editing this question to make it less provocative and more TCS-centric ? In other words, if such edits (what kind?) were made, would the question be valuable ?
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
We're hitting the start of the new year, and that means a new iteration of the Community Promotion Ads!
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports ...
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Promoting Theory Stack Exchange in FSTTCS conference (India)
I'm one of the organizing committee members of FSTTCS. Since CS Theory is not so popular in India, it would be a great venue to promote the site. We are expecting about 220 attendees.
I would like to ...
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Why does Kaveh seem to edit almost every question being asked here?
Are they really so bad that so very many of them need editing?
The real problem I have with this is the side-effect this has of changing the date and author on the main page - not that Kaveh seems ...
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Help us call for proposals for the SE Fellowship on your blog, site or listserv
The SE Research Support and Fellowship Program launched recently with our very own experienced and highly respected users reviewing fellowship applications.
To make the program a success, we need ...
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Deleting comments
What is the right policy on deleting one's comments ?
I made some bone-headed comments without thinking the problem through, and now out of sheer embarrassment if nothing else would like to remove ...
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Support vector machines in target motion analysis: relevant to CS theory?
We have a question on Physics, Target motion analysis (TMA), zig-zag navy maneuvers & Suport vector machines (SVM), which is off topic there, but a couple people have suggested it might fit here. ...
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Battle of the sites - cancelled
In response to the community's feedback on this contest, we've decided
to cancel it. We never intended to favor quantity over quality, but we
can see how this contest missed the mark. We ...
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Theoretical CS Birthday Celebration?
Did you know the Theoretical Computer Science SE's birthday is coming up on November 30th? Congratulations!
How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of ...
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About my currently active bounty
I have a current bounty on this question of Noam Nisan. Unfortuantely, this question appears to be the Bermuda Triangle for Bounties, as mine is the third bounty being offered which seems likely to ...
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