Questions tagged [science]
The Science category includes proposals in subjects like the applied, natural, cognitive, formal, and social sciences.
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Should we edit our example questions after we have received suggestions from the community?
Proposal: Bioacoustics
I asked an example question, and received a good edit suggestion.
Should I edit my original question while the proposal is in this Definition stage?
Or should I leave the ...
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Newcomers: Please upvote example questions
Proposal: Economics
Message to any new readers.
To make this proposal go to the next stage, we need more example questions with 10 or more upvotes.
So please go through and use your five upvotes ...
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So what's still missing for launch of beta?
Proposal: Astronomy
Do we need some more high-rep committers or something like that?
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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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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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Epidemiology is on-topic at Medical Sciences
Proposal: Epidemiology
Epidemiology is on-topic at Medical Sciences Stack Exchange. The epidemiology tag there currently has 64 questions.
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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 ...
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"enthusiasts of the covid-19 pandemic"?
Proposal: covid19
At least one other COVID-19 proposal has been closed, and I'm not sure how this one is different.
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Would planetary climatology be on topic?
Proposal: Geoscience
Would questions about planetary climatology be on topic? Specifically pertaining to the terrestrial planets with atmosphere (Mars and Venus), gas and ice giants, and natural ...
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Standard Q&A criteria fundamentally inappropriate for this topic?
Proposal: Mind
TL;DR: My question was this: "Can we have a different set of Q&A guidelines for this proposed topic?" The remainder of this "question" is a lengthy exposition of context and ...
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Notice on old closed site, about new proposed site? Invite to commit?
Proposal: Astronomy
There seems to be a gulf between the old, closed Astronomy site, and this new, up and coming Astronomy proposal. Can't someone put a link on the old site to point to the new? ...
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Is there a way to add support less than a full committment?
I very much want the Game Theory proposal to succeed, because g.t. is an area in which I occasionally have questions--usually during periods in which I'm actively studying a related area (e.g. ...
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Alternative names Math LSE, take two
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
This is a thread in preparation for the vote on the names. Meanwhile there are already many proposed names and the idea of this thread is that ...
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LaTeX support for economics Stack Exchange [closed]
Proposal: Economics
What is the likelihood that we can get LaTeX enabled for the Economics Stack Exchange beta (as it is on the TeX SE, Math SE, and others)? Does anyone with a better knowledge of ...
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Population ecology
Proposal: Biology
Should population ecology be also part of this this site?
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A user who posted 11 times in the Beta is not being recognized as having "fulfilled commitment" but users with fewer than 10 posts are
Proposal: Matter Modeling
Meilani posted 11 times during Beta but is not being listed as having "Fulfilled Commitment". She was active during the commitment phase, having even answered a ...
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What questions (if any) should we consider to be ātoo softā?
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Teaching mathematics is different from teaching most other subjects in many aspects, one of them arguably being that it is better fitted for ...
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What are the criteria for deciding whether a language is "natural"? [closed]
Proposal: Linguistics
Short version. Just for the purposes of this proposal, what criteria does a language have to satisfy to be considered a natural (i.e. on-topic) language?
Long version.
I ...
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To SE relevant staff members: When will the Theoretical Physics private beta begin? [closed]
To whom it may concern:
When will the Theoretical Physics private beta begin?
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Can we include everyone interested in the description?
Proposal: Astronomy
Proposed Q&A site for astronomers and astrophysicists.
Sorry, I can't commit because I'm not an expert and only 'just curious'.
Shouldn't the description be changed to ...
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Let's discuss the 10 point limit issue
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Intro: I'm putting this question here in the context of the particular proposal because a moderator has recently deleted some comments that ...
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Definition/scope of what linguistics is (and/or is not)?
Proposal: Linguistics
This is heeding MatthewMartin's call for a discussion on the scope of 'linguistics'. Advance apologies for prolonging the discussion..
I do agree the phrase 'applied ...
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On or off topic: Cosmology?
Proposal: Astronomy.
Cosmology and Astronomy are closely related and a few of the example questions look more like Cosmoloy to me:
What does the future of the universe look like?
Does the cosmic ...
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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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What tags should 'Materials Modeling' use?
Proposal: Materials Modeling
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question....
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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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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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We need more questions!
We almost have enough followers to move on, but we are really lacking questions and votes. Can members please start asking questions and voting on them?
Proposal: Aviation
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How can we move our proposal from the Business to the Science category?
Our new proposal "Currencies" really should be in the Science category where Economics is. Currencies are NOT just about business use of currency but a wide range of currency types including citizens, ...
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Rules for Voting on the Name
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Note: This is not a vote thread. Please do not post candidates.
Since the discussion in Alternative Names seems to have petered out, it seems ...
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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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Change proposed forum title "Operations Research and Analytics" to "Operations Research and Prescriptive Analytics"
Proposal: Operations Research and Analytics
If the forum title were "Operations Research and Proposed Analytics" rather than "Operations Research and Analytics", it would be clearer that the forum is ...
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Encouraging use of real names [closed]
Proposal: Linguistics
I'd like to point out that in similar sites (e.g., MathOverflow), users are encouraged to use their real names, and I'd like to propose that for here as well. Since reasons for ...
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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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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 ...