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Moderators: Please be very careful when migrating questions to other Stack Exchange websites
I ask moderators to be very careful when migrating questions to Stack Exchange websites. When in doubt, please close questions as off topic, possibly with a comment suggesting one or a few candidates ...
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List of target sites in flagging wizard
As a non-moderator, I can flag questions for a multitude of reasons. One is "It doesn't belong here" and then "off topic". After that, a list of possibly suited SE sites is shown along with a generic ...
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Are my questions acceptable here
My questions are about some concepts of programming language. I was wondering if such questions are unacceptable here?
For example,
One is "Understand foreign function
interface (FFI) and language
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About “If you could rename dynamic programming…”
This is about the following question:
If you could rename dynamic programming...
It seems to me that this is a bad subjective question since it doesn't satisfy any of the 6 items of the guideline ...
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Journalist seeking experts for story on Claude Shannon
Pete Barlas, a reporter for Investor's Business Daily, is doing a story on Claude Shannon and needs some help. Are you familiar with his life and work, and would you be willing to help out on such a ...
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We should stop claiming that this website is “research-level”
Question: Algorithm to sort pairs of numbers.
I believe that this question is at the level of midterm/final exams in an algorithm course and not at the level of research. Given the positive comment ...
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Can more memorable URLs help promotion?
Yesterday I realised that commonly used abbreviations for our site -- TCS.SE, cstheory.SE -- fit the .se top level domain perfectly. I consider registering one and configuring it as alias for the ...
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tag wiki: [open-problem]
Updated version (March 20, 2011):
Use this tag if:
well-known open problems: the problem is equivalent to a well-known open problem in the literature
community open problems: the ...
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Question “How do you call a subsequence of consecutive elements ?”
Question: How do you call a subsequence of consecutive elements ?
I guess that many people working in TCS have once wished for concise and unambiguous terms for “contiguous subsequence” and “not ...
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Promotion T-Shirt Design
According to the current discussion about the promotion of this site there come up the idea of a t-shirt with advertisement.
I want to collect some design ideas of a promotion t-shirt.
Edit: On a ...
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Promoting TCS.SE at FCRC
The last time we did an IRL (in real life) promotional event for TCS.SE was at FOCS 2010. I don't unfortunately have any data on whether that event worked to draw more people in. We also had the ...
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How did TCS SE gain traction?
I am a Pro Tem moderator on Quant Finance SE. We are in a struggle at the moment to get sufficient questions to make it out of beta. One particular issue is that we narrow the question scope to a ...
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Mobile site for TCS.SE (no colors on iPhone)
Have anyone checked if there is a mobile version of the site? I normally like to read questions from my iphone, and I notice the other day that the design changed (the mobile version). For instance, ...
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What happened to the Users page? [closed]
The users page http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/users is now really really ugly. What happened there? Can it be reverted?
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Community discussion about the Sum of Square Roots problem?
I was considering posting a question on some of my thoughts regarding the Sum of Square Roots and seeing if the community had any responses or ways to contribute, but I wasn't sure if this was really ...
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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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About “Are there any known barriers to use some approach for solving P vs. NP?”
This is about the following question:
Are there any known barriers to use some approach for solving P vs. NP?
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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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Use a consistent prefix to distinguish area tags instead of CoRR subject area codes
This is a continuation of a discussion which took place in comments on this post.
It is recommended to tag every question with at least one area tag (formerly called “top-level tag”). Currently area ...
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Finding negation of regular expression: too basic ?
The question Regular expressions: Finding “negation” of regular expression? seems awfully basic to me. I didn't want to close since my fellow moderator Dave Clarke answered it, which clearly indicates ...
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Better name for the so-called “top-level tags”
It is recommended to tag every question with at least one in the (vaguely recognized) set of tags that represent the subject areas of questions. These tags are sometimes referred to as “top-level ...
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Learning Tags - Should they be synonyms?
Currently, we have tags lg.learning, machine-learning, and online-learning. Is there a difference? If so, somebody should edit the tag wikis to make it clear.
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No empirical results in papers [closed]
I am new to the Computer Science field and I've started reading papers. One thing I noticed is that in most of the papers I read, the authors never bother to code their new algorithm on a pc and ...
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[computability] behaves like a top-level tag
This is related to the question about top-level tags.
It seem to me that the tag computability acts differently than other tags. While it belongs to the top-level tag lo.logic (is it?), a large ...
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Should we merge [coloring] to/from [graph-colouring]?
Currently graph-colouring has a large number of questions, and coloring has two questions with no significant difference to those of graph-colouring. Thus I guess we should merge these two tags.
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Should we allow this type of question: “Evaluating a doctoral program/institute of CS”
Should we close this type of question: "Evaluating a doctoral programinstitute of CS?". On the one hand, it's somewhat similar to the type of career advice questions we do allow. On the other hand, it ...
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Dealing with user spam
So this is probably the first instance what I can only describe as user spam. Unfortunately, non-mods won't be able to see the answers since they've been deleted, but user mouton, who joined just ...
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Who benefits from this site?
I believe that the CSTheory site can potentially contribute to theoretical computer science and to our field's visibility in the larger community of scientists and mathematicians. The ongoing success ...
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Revisiting questions closed as off-topic
I am going over old questions which are closed as off-topic.
If you notice a question that is closed as off-topic (based on cstheory's scope at that time) which you think should be reopened (based ...
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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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Does this question belong here?
I've asked this question at StackOverflow, and someone suggested asking cstheory.SE as well. If it does, should I copy the question, just post a link, or get a moderator to move it?
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Multiple Research Forums (like this One) Linked Together — a Proposal
In our discussion of whether the Theoretical Computer Science is too narrow for this site, I suggested a compromise idea that would have different forums like this site, all linked together more so ...
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Why StackExchange?
MathOverflow works very well for mathematicians, in part because it is run by mathematicians, who understand how mathematicians interact. One clever thing they do to make the site useful for the ...
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Zombie question: stake through the heart or not ?
We have a number of questions that float up to the top of the queue every month or so. This is the latest one: Help needed on method to use for anomaly detection.
But some are zombie questions (like ...
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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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Is “theoretical” computer science too narrow?
The CS Theory Stack Exchange is humming along nicely. It's a terrific, robust, and growing community that is clearly making an increasing contribution to the state of CS Theory research.
Something we ...
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A cstheory website for beginners
It seems that overzealous folks at Area 51 closed the proposal without giving it a fair chance. (Dave Clarke)
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mathoverflow.net is for mathematicians.
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Existence of two lists of FAQs is confusing
Now that one problem of the page cstheory.stackexchange.com/faq has been resolved, we would like to discuss another: namely, the existence of two lists of FAQs is confusing.
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Downvoting closed questions
Should we downvote questions that have been closed (to keep the front page clean)?
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Questions with score −4 are hard to close
I have seen several cases like the following: if a problematic question has score −3, it will eventually be closed, whereas if it reaches score −4, it is not closed.
This happens because questions ...
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Flagging and Community Wiki
A few weeks ago, the community wiki check box was removed, and only moderators can now convert a question to CW. Users should flag a post to notify the mods.
However, I noted that it requires 16 ...
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Ethical concerns about OpenSTV binaries for download
I found that the binaries of the OpenSTV program for Windows and Mac are available on the election page. Thanks for allowing us to check the result from the available data. However, on their ...
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Election results ?
Looks like the election is over ! I tried downloading the recommended software and figuring out the results, but it had so many options and flags that it confused me, so I have no idea. Do we know ...
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Misclicked Question Vote
Today I accidentally voted down a question that I was reading. When I noticed and went to change my vote I got an error message blocking my vote reversal unless the question is edited. This was ...
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Migration problems: both sides should be involved in making migration decisions
Migration is a nice feature but I am starting to get annoyed by the bad migrated questions we are receiving. I haven't counted but my feeling is that the majority of migrated questions to cstheory are ...
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Oddities in the election system message
I am not sure if moderators can change the system message calling for voting, but if possible, please consider changing the current message:
Cast your final vote in the Theoretical Computer ...
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“Your votes are too old to be changed”
Yesterday I've casted my 1st choice vote. Today I was about to cast my 2nd choice vote, but the system doesn't allow me to do so and says "Your votes are too old to be changed".
This is weird. Of ...
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Redirect to errors
On our front page, we have now the following question:
Graph having diameter k times the average distance [closed]
If you click on the link, you are redirected to a "Page Not Found" error message at ...
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[Informational] The Way Voting Works
This is not really a question, but an informational message. Stack Exchange (SE) uses a method of election called Single Transferable Votes (STV). AFAIK, this mechanism is recently incorporated into ...
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Nomination statement is grayed out after re-nomination
According to Lev Reyzin, he nominated himself as a moderator, canceled the nomination, and re-nominated himself (see the comment here). On the election page, his statement is grayed out, and there is ...
