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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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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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SE Theoretical CS Pizza Ambassador Program: Sponsored discussion groups
Stack Exchange is looking for students and teachers interested in a new pizza ambassador program. Stack Exchange would like to sponsor university students (and external academic/study groups) who are ...
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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 ...
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CStheory meetup at FCRC?
I haven't been logging in the way I used to, so perhaps I missed this. But is there any plan to do a CStheory meetup at FCRC? I will be there, starting tomorrow night, through the ninth. I owe Dave ...
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FOCS 2011 cstheory “reporter”
Jeff Atwood encourages us to explore support from SE for our conferences. One idea is to pitch a 'FOCS reporter' to attend the conference and write a series of posts for the blog. We could find ...
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On the Difference between Crowdsourced Answers and Mathematical Truth
This is in part a response to Robert Cartaino's comment on Suresh's comment response here. I wanted to separate it out from the other discussion, though. I'd like to start by contrasting two ...
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RETAG: unsolved-problems to open-problem
I think "open-problem" (or simply "open") is nicer and more common.
Update: We now have open-problem $\leftarrow$ unsolved-problems
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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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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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Information on the moderator candidates
Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack Overflow API to display information on the moderator candidates.
Click here to see all the information.
The information presented is:
What ...
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Merge [np-completeness] to [np-hardness]?
Currently 50 questions are tagged as [np-completeness] and 20 questions as [np-hardness]. Among them, 7 questions are tagged as both.
I think that the difference of these two tags is too subtle for ...
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Ph.D Schools “focusing” on theory
There's a rollback extravaganza happening on this question. There are a number of problems in the question, and foolishly I contributed to this by even answering.
There are multiple questions ...
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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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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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“Theoretical computer science” or “theoretical *in* computer science”
Sometimes we get questions which are "theoretical questions in computer science", but are not "theoretical computer science" questions. Other areas in computer science (e.g. computer networks, ...) ...
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How to differentiate between TCS and CS for practitioners?
In the context of new proposals on Area 51, a number of people who are active there and on programming sites have (imho) demonstrated a lack of perspective on the field computer science. For them, it ...
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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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Upcoming journals and conferences: read 'em and ask on the Stack (and get prizes)
As the new monthly issues of your favorite journals are published and conferences approach, we want to remind you to ask those burning questions that pop into your head as you read through novel ...
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Using meta instead of comments for discussion on suitability of a question
In these two questions, there's extensive discussion in comments (in one case in an answer) on the suitability of the question. To me, this seems like a discussion to be had here on meta, and so my ...
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RETAG: distributed-systems -> dc.distributed-comp
Now it should be ok to merge distributed-systems -> dc.distributed-comp.
Edit: This has got so far only 1 supporting vote, and according to our policy, the threshold is 4 votes before the ...
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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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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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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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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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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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How did I start off with 101 reputation points?
Whereas I see others with reputation points < 101?
Does everyone start off at 101?
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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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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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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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About user Anonymous Coward
This user seems to be the same one on MO which has posted several questions on MathOverflow without following them up and the questions are left there.
Now the user has started doing the same thing ...
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Can I post this question about dynmaic programming?
Several months back, I asked in math.SE the following question
I wonder if any dynamic programming problem can always be converted to
a source-sink shortest path problem in a network with source ...
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An Area51 proposal
I want to bring the following Area51 proposal to your attention:
Computational Science proposal
It is for Computation al Science (not Computer Science).
It seems like a solid proposal and ...
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What should we to with tags [graph-isomorphism] and [automorphism]?
When I saw the question “What is the most efficient algorithm to sample graphs with trivial automorphism groups ?” by turkistany, it reminded me that I saw a similar question recently, but it was ...
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How Much Time before Closing a Question?
Sometimes, the community can help the questioner clarify/elaborate the question, or make it on-topic by changing it appropriately.
In such cases, closing too soon---specially, by mods, and before any ...
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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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Referring questions to crypto.SE
Consider the following two questions:
Information leaking of simulation based security
Why SHA-224 and SHA-256 use different initial values?
There's already a scope clash between crypto.SE and us, ...
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Recommendations for “How to model X”, “How to do X” (X an informal task)
It would be nice to have a set of general recommendations and requirements for users asking "How to model X", "Applications of theory", and "How to do X" questions where X is an informal task (i.e. ...
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Retag Request: [queuing-theory] --> [queueing-theory]
I'm proposing a retag as: [queuing-theory] --> [queueing-theory]. You can vote for it here:
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When do we get a “subjective question” warning?
While writing this question about range counting I was warned by the site that it is likely subjective and will be closed.
Do you think it is subjective?
2.1. If yes, then why?
2.2. If no, then ...
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Retag etiquette?
The question http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/942/in-strongly-connected-tournament-t-is-it-np-hard-to-find-a-minimum-number-of-vert was retagged twice, from the original "np" to add tags ...
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Polyglots for theoretical research like what is usage and definition
I asked about a test for what is a polyglot i.e. valid code in many programming languages. I got the comment "compile it" and OK I understand but do you have a more serious comment or also for strange ...
