The Science category includes proposals in subjects like the applied, natural, cognitive, formal, and social sciences.
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From the point of early definition phase, when can questions be answered?
We are in the first week of definition for the solar site. (https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/119468/solar-energy-science-and-economy?referrer=KBKRhv89SyAy_-rWx8ONsg2)
I plan to do a ...
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Two email confirmations intended, and, if so, why necessary?
Students intending to support our solar site, after browsing to the Share It link (https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/119468/solar-energy-science-and-economy?referrer=KBKRhv89SyAy_-rWx8ONsg2) ...
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Ability to perform a few basics in definition phase blocked by bugs only on some browsers
My team has noticed a few configurations for which the site definition process was frustrated because of what appears to be browser specific bugs. By switching from one browser/computer combination ...
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“Formal Math” - Do you allow sites that don't follow the usual Stack Exchange protocols?
Following discussion with trusted colleagues I am thinking about setting up a site for working on formalized mathematics. To quote John Harrison:
It is generally accepted that in principle it’s ...
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How much SE internal promotion is permitted for new SE site proposals? [duplicate]
Proposal: Solar Energy Science and Economy
I'm sure there would be interest from environmental, economic, and engineering sites within SE. Upon preliminary search, there are about 2,000 questions ...
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Editorial line for a new Q&A site
I am considering using a SE site as an alternative to a scientific journal publication for short results, since it has the advantage of allowing an active feedback from the community.
However, I ...
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The Bone Yard. Question limbo, SE Rule boot camp, or low-quality purgatory. A place where questions go to die?
I propose a SE site that any answer or question is on topic and never closed or put on hold.Unlike other sites the commonality of these question will be that they need work. This will give th OP the ...
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I'd like to propose a site for holology, antique grandfather clocks, and the restoration of these masterpieces [duplicate]
I took a few pictures of a grandfather clock at a bank branch, and I'd like to upload some pictures in hopes someone might recognise it. However, I can't seem to find the appropriate site to ask. Here'...
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Where to ask questions about bioelectromagnatism science?
I am studying the bioelectromagnatism by myself, so of course I have many questions. I'm wondering where I can find the best stack exchange community to ask?
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Why is this question not shown up on its proposal?
This question, Network-related tags on existing sites, does not shown up in its proposal, Complex Networks, regardless of its score of 4. Why is that?
Proposal: Complex Networks
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Why does Area 51 say Astronomy beta failed?
When I visit http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/51/astronomy it tells me:
The Astronomy site didn't have enough activity during the beta. It has
been closed, and its content has been ...
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Which topics of the following list; would be on-topic (or off topic) in bioinformatics SE? [closed]
Proposal: Bioinformatics
List 1: Following are some area closely related to bioinformatics from the view
that all them contains things related to "bio" and "computation"
Computational biology.
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We already have Biostars
Proposal: Bioinformatics
We already have Biostars. This will just fragment the community. What purpose would this site serve that Biostars or Seqanswers doesn't?
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What’s the focus of the site?
Proposal: Bioinformatics
It’s worth thinking in more detail about what the focus of this Q&A website should be, considering that it will overlap considerably with (at least) the following Stack ...
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learning platforms
Proposal: Self-directed learning
It seems that all questions so far are about learning in general. Will questions about specific platforms be welcomed?
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Is someone interested in supporting the creation of a Site for Degrowth?
In reference to the existing Site Sustainable Living, I would like to broaden the topic and thus create a Site for the larger topic of Degrowth.
Is someone interested in pursuing this effort?
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Starting new versus joining and supporting existing beta community
Proposal: Air Quality Modeling
I found a beta community: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/
It has several questions related to WRF and CMAQ. We may want to search other stack exchange sites to ...
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Does the “data” in the proposal description interfere with opendata.stackexchange?
Proposal: Open Science
The current description of the Open Science proposal reads:
Proposed Q&A site for the "open science" movement to make scientific
research, data and dissemination ...
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Wildlife is On-Topic at The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Wildlife
The Great Outdoors SE has a wildlife tag, and it seems to be a fairly active tag, judging by the current questions
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Would it be helpful to merge efforts with the geography proposal?
Both seem uncertain of reaching weight, and seem to have similar goals and overlaps. I understand many of the top users of each may not be terribly interested in the topics of others, but each may ...
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Can we have a Physical Science SE for people with low quality physics questions?
I have many questions dealing with Physics, but these questions were considered low quality contributions by Physics SE. I got my account suspended by them for 30 days on Christmas and when I was let ...
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perhaps a library science page? [duplicate]
I have looked it up and haven't seen anything on the stackexchange network. I believe there should be. As my rep was lowered to below 50, I cannot propose anything.
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Network-related tags on existing sites
For the purposes of:
finding example questions
getting an idea of the possible scope of this proposal
having questions answered right now
arguing that this topic is scattered over too many existing ...
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Should we include specs of any military equipment?
Proposal: Strategy
If we're including military strategy, should we include specs of any military equipment? For example, what are the dimensions of the AK-47, what is it's expected lifetime, it's ...
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Difference between complex networks as science of ecosystems rather than a branch of physics portal?
Complex networks can be described as a sub-area of physics and mathematics, where you study how things entangle with each other.
After Barabasi and Newman (in my personal point of view) complex ...
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Suggestions and discusions for improvements of all Stack Exchange sites
I cannot find an arena where suggestions can be made and discussed for global changes to the SE system.
I strongly believe that the SE system is somewhat flawed and is in desperate need of some ...
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Possible Duplicate of Cognitive Science
Proposal: Psychology
This site is possibly a duplicate of Cognitive Sciences.
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There was a previous attempt that did not make it and moved to openscience.uni-bielefeld.de - what would be the advantage of a new attempt here?
There was a previous attempt that did not get enough support. The content was moved to http://openscience.uni-bielefeld.de/ and the community is active there. What would be the advantage to start a ...
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Will machine learning be considered as on-topic?
I know that machine learning is an another section of artificial intelligence. Currently I ask machine learning related doubts in stats.SE but can I ask machine learning related questions like What ...
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Etiquette regarding cross-semination of proposals and S.E.s
I read a post (from 2012) recently in the Linguistics meta that "...The users that committed cannot talk about them in existing sites at the moment....".
Before that, I had been going to consider a ...
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Would retrieval algorithms be on-topic?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
By retrieval algorithms I mean like text search, (approximate) nearest neighbor search. Those algorithms are not usually found in the textbooks of AI but it seems to ...
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This seems to be extremely narrow in scope - could these questions fit well on CogSci.SE?
Proposal: Neuroeconomics
Cognitive Sciences already has a tag for neurology with 37 questions and neurology is specifically listed as being on topic in their site description.
Cognitive Sciences ...
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Would NLP be on-topic here?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
I have a few questions about NLP (working with SyntaxNet). SyntaxNet is built on TensorFlow, so I presume questions about it would be on-topic on this site?
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Would reposts of AI answers from other sites be acceptable?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
It is clear that many people believe that this proposed site may fail to get out of private beta, mostly because this site has been proposed before, and that there ...
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The example questions will not attract experts
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
I find that there is a fundamental problem with this proposal: the quality of example questions is very low and won't attract experts, yet they are upvoted. Here are ...
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Is the geology proposal redundant to the Earth Science one?
Proposal: geology
Is this redundant to Earth Science?
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Are questions about narrow AIs allowed?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
The title says it all. Are we allowing questions about AGI -- as in, attempting to replicate the intelligence of humans with computers -- or any AI, including narrow ...
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If this website fails or does not get enough supporters, what backup plans do we have?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
...Because artificial intelligence does not go away just because this site doesn't attract enough "experts" to sustain existence for longer than a month. It is a ...
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What niche does this AI proposal aim to fill?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
"AI" questions are already on-topic on several sites. Engineering questions about tools like TensorFlow, Torch, etc. are on topic on Stack Overflow. In fact Stack ...
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Possible overlap of Empirical Research proposal with Cross Validated site
Proposal: Empirical Research
Is all of this already covered sufficiently by the Cross Validated site?
Until I checked its tags, I wasn’t aware that survey and experiment design would be on topic ...
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Using Stack Exchange for Survey or Opinion?
Would it be possible to adapt the software powering Stack Overflow for other purposes beyond the tradition Q&A? For example, to run a survey site for public opinion polls where the asker of a ...
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Possible duplicate of The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Ornithology
This is the third or fourth proposal about birds now. As I've pretty much said to all of them, bird watching is already on topic in The Great Outdoors
Tags:
bird-watching(16 ...
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Isn't AI on-topic on Computer Science?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
The posts under the topics: machine learning, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, natural language processing are on-topic on Computer Science.
So, ...
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Is “ornithology” too narrow?
Proposal: Ornithology
It looks like proposals like this one, such as ichthyology and the old bird watching proposal, haven't gotten enough support to launch. Perhaps a zoology/animals site would do ...
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Welcome to the Anthropology.SE proposal!
Proposal: Anthropology
Going through the Science sites, I realised there is no Anthropology.SE (yet!).
These are some related ones, though. I think it's impossible NOT to have some overlapping, so ...
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The last 10 yards ( 10 more commitments needed )
Proposal: 3D Printing
With now just 6 more commitments needed to bring this site to beta it is looking like we are going to make it; with that being said, we are going to need to start spreading the ...
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Would the focus of this be technical, philosophical or both?
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
Personally I would prefer mainly technical. It seems that a few of the questions involve semi philosophical, and somewhat subjective questions.
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What about Robotics?
It seems Artificial Intelligence is on-topic at Robotics SE.
The central problems (or goals) of Artificial Intelligence research include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, and ...
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This would dilute traffic from CS and the DataScience sites
Proposal: Artificial Intelligence
This proposal massively overlaps with the scopes of DataScience and ComputerScience. One is in beta and the other recently graduated.
So, all it does is just ...
