Questions tagged [science]
The Science category includes proposals in subjects like the applied, natural, cognitive, formal, and social sciences.
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What are the options for naming the Computational science proposal?
Update:
Based on the scattered arguments, discussions, and comments, the consensus seems to be to name this site:
"Computational Science" <-- header at the top
with a url of scicomp.stackexchange....
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Alternative names
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Some other possible names for this site:
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Teaching and Learning
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Two level model (MO/Math.SE) vs one level model (SO)
Proposal: Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Theoretical Physics, etc.
Recently there has been a number of cases where people from SO/SU/SF sites have criticized the two level model ...
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Theoretical Physics: a sub-section for research (and research-level review) papers? [closed]
Proposal: Theoretical Physics
I Propose: a dedicated sub-section for questions on research and review papers in the field, limited to theoretical and mathematical physics and related pure-mathematics ...
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Merge the various geoscience proposals?
Proposal: Geoscience
I believe we need a communal site for all the geoscience proposals. This site would cover multiple areas and multiple proposals into a larger site. The following existing ...
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What problems does the two-level split solve?
Kaveh asked what problem the two level split into research and non-research sites would cause. This has now gotten a couple of answers. I asked what problem is solved which I think is more important, ...
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Persistent bugs hindering users from participating: Failure of StackExchange to recognize when Area51 & SE accounts have the same email address
Proposal: Materials Modeling
During the last 24 hours, several people have complained to me that they were unable to participate due to bugs on the Area51 platform. They log in, confirm their email ...
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What should our site be called?
Proposal: Operations Research
UPDATE: Stack Exchange has made a final decision on the name of this site: It will be Operations Research. Further discussion below is welcome, but bear in mind that the ...
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Geoscience scope — include planetary, solar system, solar-terrestrial sciences?
Proposal: Geoscience
Interpretations differ as to whether geosciences include space and planetary science. From the list of AGU journals or the 2012 list of EGU General Assembly sessions, it probably ...
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Why did the name change from “Computational Science” to “Scientific Computing”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the options for naming the Computational science proposal
Proposal: Scientific Computing (was Computational Science)
I preferred the original name. In any case, ...
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Can a Stack Exchange employee please connect these accounts to their network profiles?
Proposal: Materials Modeling
Gergely Juhasz:
Area51: https://area51.stackexchange.com/users/208530/gergely-juhasz
Network: https://stackexchange.com/users/1177849/greg
Erick Daniel Cardenas-Mendes:
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Mathematica proposal has disappeared
The mathematica proposal at 89 commitments has disappeared without warning or trace.
Why has it disappeared? And why without prior warning?
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Vote here to decide the name
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
This thread is to vote on the name for this Stack Exchange. Before voting, you may want to read the first discussion and second discussion on ...
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Why yet another trial at an AI project?
A quick search on Area51 shows already two closed AI proposals, one 4 years ago, and one last year. Both were focusing on the technological aspects, and they may have come too early.
In 2015, we can ...
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Suggest a URL for this site
Proposal: History of Science And Mathematics
When a proposal makes it about half way through the Commitment phase, the Community Team will start to evaluate the proposal to see if it is ready to move ...
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Is this only about the Latin language or also about its contexts?
Proposal: Latin Language
Should this site be only about the Latin language, its grammar and its styles? Or are questions about its context also ontopic:
Latin literature (eg discussion of various ...
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What should be the final target audience of Mathematics LSE
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
There is already quite some discussion about the (final) name of the site, but to me this seems somewhat backwards. I think we should start ...
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Don't overvote!
Proposal: Aviation and Aerospace
As you probably know, we have more than enough users to go into the next stage but need 20 more questions with 10 votes or more.
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to ...
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Rename to “Earth Sciences”
Proposal: Geoscience
Rename to:
Earth Sciences
Rationale:
Geoscience has connotations of geology and geography (all to do with the surface of the planet, or what's under it. This could potentially ...
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The title “Computer Science (Non-Programming)”
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
AFAIK “Computer Science (Non-Programming)” is the proposed title.
Writing “Non-Programming” sounds a bit absurd. Every branch of computer science is ...
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How do we actually change the name?
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
There have been several possible different names proposed in this question, to replace "Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education".
My ...
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1answer
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We need more up-voted questions and re-distributed votes
Proposal: Game Theory
At the time of this writing, we have some 7-8 questions with 10+ votes, some 2-3 questions with a little less than 10 votes, and a large number of questions just hanging around ...
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Bug with verifying email addresses
Proposal: Materials Modeling
On one hand there is the bug which causes people's Area51 accounts not to link properly with their StackExchange Network profiles:
Persistent bugs hindering users from ...
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When can “example questions” be answered?
My understanding is that there are a limited number of things a user can do for those to whom I send a link to my proposal.
Get an SE account (Yay!)
Follow It for our proposal (Yay!)
Ask new example ...
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Is Computer Science a duplicate of Theoretical Computer Science?
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
I originally wrote this question because I believed that this was a duplicate of Theoretical Computer Science. However it does appear that the example ...
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Scope of Cryptography proposal overlaps with other existing sites
Proposal: Cryptography, CS Theory, IT Security
I am failing to understand the scope of this proposal. The comments like these:
Since this site was not merged with the security.stackexchange.com ...
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How can we better serve the CS community on Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
Gotta admit, I see the point of this. From the look of the proposed questions so far, this would be a solid resource for CS students, who may well find ...
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Should open science questions just be asked on academia.SE?
Proposal: Open Science
There are a number of open science and open access questions already on academia.edu. Perhaps an easy way to get these kinds of questions answered is to ask them there. ...
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2answers
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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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Mathjax in private Beta already
Proposal: Economics
Ahem... I understand that MathJax is not automatically implemented in all new SE sites, because it burdens the system in various ways. I am currently reading the relevant thread ...
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Supporting your favorite proposal
Proposal: Theoretical Physics (but not restricted to it)
Remember, if you want support a proposal during commitment phase, aside from advertising it to gain more followers, you can also help ...
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1answer
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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 it be worth including space & planetary sciences?
Proposal: Astronomy & Astrophysics
As the Astronomy proposal didn't get enough participation, would it make more sense to broaden the proposal even further to specifically include:
Solar physics ...
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What is the potential overlap between Open Source and Open Science?
Proposals: Open Source and Open Science
As far as I can tell, there is a significant overlap between Open Source and Open Science. Where exactly does this overlap lie and will this be a problem?
As ...
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Astronomy: How long before beta?
The Astronomy proposal reached 100% on May 25 if not earlier. When will the private beta be launched?
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Our site name changed. Is it final?
Proposal: Operations Research
Last night Stack Exchange changed our site name and URL from "Operations Research and Analytics" to "Operations Research".
Should we assume that is the final name? If ...
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Merging Biochemistry/microbiology into Biology [closed]
The Biochemistry / microbiology proposal should be merged into the Biology proposal, or Biochemistry / microbiology should be closed as a duplicate.
Microbiology is a subset of biology, and ...
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Am I confused or does this already exist?
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
This isn't https://math.stackexchange.com/...?
There is already an education tag there; why not just use it?
I understand the "our education ...
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OR: Strategies for getting 100+ committers with 200+ rep
Proposal: Operations Research
To progress to the next phase of the launch, we need at least 100 committers who have at least 200 reputation on other Stack Exchange sites. This is likely to be our ...
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Boundary between space exploration and astronomy sites
Proposal: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space Exploration and Technology
I believe these two are closely related, and we should discuss where to draw the line between the two, should both sites be ...
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Relationship of Open Science to Open Data?
Proposals: Open Science and Open Data
There is an existing beta called Open Data. It's been around for about 16 months, and looks like it could use a hand in generating critical mass. I'm not an ...
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When will we launch? UPDATE (launched date delayed)
Proposal: Operations Research
I know new betas usually launch on Tuesdays. Looks like we won’t launch today, so, will we need to wait until next week?
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How can this proposal be clearly distinguished from Chemistry, Physics, Computational Science, …?
Proposal: Materials Modeling
At the time of writing, most of the questions proposed so far fit very well within the scope of existing sites (not only one of them, but two or more). I wonder what ...
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Will history of engineering be on topic?
Example questions:
"Cathedral architects in the European Middle Ages used straight-edge and compass geometric construction in their work; to what extent was their intellectual tradition distinct from ...
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Will social sciences be included in “History of Science”?
Will the "History of Science and Mathematics" include the history of "soft" sciences such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, and economics?
Example questions:
"I have heard it reputed that Carl ...
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Pareto optimality of the distribution of upvotes
Proposal: Economics
We are economists, let's reallocate upvotes (the distribution of votes per question is not Pareto Optimal). We can achieve a better outcome at zero costs!!!
In questions with a ...
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1answer
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Have you used all 5 of your votes?
Proposal: Open Science
At present there are 76 followers which means a total of 76 * 5 = 380 votes available, but less than 200 votes have been used (unless an awful lot of up and down votes ...
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Remote sensing in Geoscience?
Proposal: Geoscience
Is it planned to consider remote sensing in Geoscience? It would be great to aggregate all the related questions into one place and not to scatter them on Stack, Cross Val and ...
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1answer
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Is the Cognitive Science proposal for research level questions?
Is the Cognitive Science proposal for research level questions or general questions? Will it follow the likes of cstheory in attracting active researchers and discouraging non-graduate level questions?...
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What should this site be called?
Proposal: Materials Modeling
This is partly copied from when this same thing was asked for what is now the Operations Research Stack Exchange.
Within the pre-existing community (the one that existed ...
