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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Question regarding applications of formally verified software: CS or CSTHEORY?
I have a specific question that in as a summary, or in broad terms, I would describe as "about the application of formally verified software".
Does this fit better in cstheory (this site) or in CS ...
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Is there any guidance re flagging as “very low quality” beyond its description?
While I was reviewing, I flagged
Context free language as
"very low quality", although I was somewhat hesitant about doing so.
Was I correct to flag it as that?
Is there any other guidance about ...
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Suggestions for our about page
I just noticed that we can edit some parts of
the about page.
If you have a suggestion how to improve it please post it as an answer.
The parts we can edit are:
I. Introduction.
II. The example ...
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Peer review papers
I'm new to this forum and wanted to ask if there is forum where I can post my term paper for peer review/critique sort of thing. This particular topic happens to be on quantum computing.
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Can someone migrate [specific question on main]?
Can someone migrate this question to either cs.stackexchange or stackoverflow?
10 or so hours ago I flagged it as off topic because I wasn't allowed
to suggest cs.stackexchange as a migration ...
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Can I ask questions on Algorithms,Asymptotic Analysis,Complexity Classes,Compiler Design in this forum?
This is my first question on this forum so please bear with the content of this first question.Can I post questions about the above topics on this forum?
And it will be really nice of you if you can ...
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When flagging as off topic why is cs stackexchange not available? [duplicate]
I was trying to flag a question as off topic and it seems to be more suitable for cs.stackexchange. However, only stackoverflow was available and not cs.stackexchange. Why is that?
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Useful database queries
This post is for keeping interesting queries about cstheory.
Related meta questions:
Useful UserScripts?
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May I ask interdisciplinary questions?
There are some very interesting problems which are not solely Computer Scientific. Rather, some of their aspects are within another field like biology.
To give a concrete example, let me bring my ...
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Offering cash prizes?
TCS SE contain many old questions without any answer. I think it is a good idea to allow offering cash-prizes for those questions.
Should we allow offering cash prizes for solving problems without ...
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Should the question about structure of resolution proofs be closed?
This is request for comment from the community regarding the following question:
in SAT resolution proofs, are all DAGs possible?
Is the question in its current form suitable for the site?
If it is ...
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What is “Theoretical Computer Science”?
What exactly is "theoretical" computer science? I just saw this site as part of the Stack Exchange and wondered what this meant. I couldn't get a solid understanding by looking at the trending ...
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How to ask for a clearer answer to an old question
Below I am mainly talking about the recent question “Counting number of increasing subsequences of length k” by orryowr, but I want answers which are not specific to this question.
Suppose that a ...
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promoting TCS/stackexchange
have tried to hold my tongue as long as possible to get a feel for this site culture. however, is it just me or does it feel like mass entropy has set in? there is a dribble of new questions daily, ...
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Help answering the “CS applications of logic” question
I was quite happy to see the question Pointers for CS applications of logic. Scott Aaronson in his blog sometimes uses the scenario of super-intelligent alien beings having a discussion with us to ...
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Changing name to eliminate non-research questions
I am noticing lately that there are many questions being rejected because they are not research level questions. It is obvious that most of these questions are asked by people who never posted any ...
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What are the avatar's supplements (hats)?
I noticed a new feature of various amusing added features for your avatar (hats). Theis seems to be a new feature. What is the origin of this feature?
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What is the `reference-request ` tag?
I noticed the reference-request tag. Can I ask something like ...
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Why has the 'Automata-Enlightment' question received so many up-votes?
This question has got abnormally large number of votes in just two days. The question is favorited by many 'members' who have joined in the last few days. Many of the accounts look funny since they ...
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How can I find reviewers for a (complexity theory) book I help editing?
I help editing a new edition of the Gacs-Lovasz: Complexity of Algorithms book. What is the best way to find some experienced people who would proofread some parts of it? E.g. is there a way to post ...
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How to propose for the P.hd Scholar in part-time? [closed]
I have completed my M.Sc Information Technology (5 years integrated) from Anna University on 2012. I'm interested in Higher Studies.
Whether i have to go for the MS/P.hd, Where could i search. For my ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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TCS community on Google Plus
This is more an announcement than a question. There's a new TCS "community" on G+ that some of you might be interested in participating in. Moderators have to "approve" membership, but there's no ...
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Can we write a research paper from stackexchange collaboration?
I was wondering if (let's say for example) someone come out with a certain problem found in a certain domain. The problem is divided into subproblems. Each of them is given as a stackexchange ...
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Limiting non research level questions
In order to limit the number of "non research level" questions asked on cstheory (that cause annoying downvotes/see-the-FAQ comments/migration/closing), I think that a good idea would be to add a ...
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cstheory.SE fellows add me in their Google+ circles
In the last couple of days, three cstheory users added me in their Google Plus circles. I don't mind to have these people in my circles, I was just wondering: is there some automatic thing that makes ...
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What to do about general comments by non-experts which do not add any new information/knowedgle?
Some of the comments on Gil's recent question are flagged as not-constructive.
They are not literally offensive or rude, they are not irrelevant to the question, but honestly they don't seem to ...
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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:
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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 …
http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be sending you a little care package ...
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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 ...
