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2023/08/15 | 925 | 3,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently looking for a PhD program in Aerospace Engineering and I am going to ask by email if my research interest and thesis work fits the university research areas. Hence, I thought to summarize my thesis and produce a two-page-long document in the form of paper by using one of the foll... |
2023/08/15 | 1,619 | 6,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been on the postdoc treadmill for 5 years now. My current employer has been clear from the start that unless I meet certain metrics with publications, I would not be able to stay past my current contract, which expires this year.
An ex-co-author of mine, who works at another institution... |
2023/08/15 | 479 | 1,973 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you have just finished your PhD or you are a young post-doc researcher. You are applying for a faculty position at a university which is far from your hometown and far from where you currently live. After some years you will get your tenure-track. How would you respond to the following ques... |
2023/08/16 | 805 | 3,596 | <issue_start>username_0: In 2021, PRX Quantum released a new type of publication distinct from articles and reviews known as the tutorial. This is described as:
>
> PRX Quantum began publishing Tutorials to help the quantum community educate the next generation of quantum scientists. Rather than provide a comprehensi... |
2023/08/16 | 1,713 | 7,328 | <issue_start>username_0: I am close to finishing my PhD and most likely will have 1 or 2 papers published. For personal reasons I have to take around 2 year break from academia, but I would like to come back for a postdoc. People around me keep telling me that if I get out, I can't come back in, especially because the ... |
2023/08/16 | 1,169 | 5,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed an famous professor a paper (say paper B) that corrects a critical mistake in their old, well-received paper (say paper A). I invite them to coauthor. They neither agree nor disagree. They told me that they were not entirely convinced and had me wait. After waiting for more than two m... |
2023/08/16 | 1,454 | 6,419 | <issue_start>username_0: My idea would be to build a theoretical classification similar to Kardashev's ladder to consider what is scientific, what is not scientific or what is pseudoscientific.
***The Kardashev scale definition would look something like this:***
>
> "The Kardashev scale is a theoretical classificati... |
2023/08/17 | 825 | 3,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to figure out the path I take when I return to my PhD (UK). I want to develop research skills and 'capability' in an area of physics that is not my thesis title. I've asked multiple times to change focus but the answer is always no.
I've already published a single author paper at an... |
2023/08/17 | 767 | 3,331 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an email with my qualifications to a prospective PhD supervisor and he responded by asking for my availability for interview and the likely days of the week, this could hold. I responded that I am available for interview and also chose a day from the available days he gave.
He didn't re... |
2023/08/17 | 654 | 2,845 | <issue_start>username_0: My uni advisor offered me, some months after my graduation, a PhD position in his group. I do not know any detail about such position.
Right now I am more inclined going in different topics, and I am actually evaluating other proposals, academic and not. Still, since an intersection with my cu... |
2023/08/17 | 2,178 | 9,278 | <issue_start>username_0: **Synopsis**: Can a fake journal keep the copyright of a submitted (**not** published) paper, despite the authors' request to withdraw it (because of the journal not keeping its full-waiver promise and also not following a correct article processing routine)?
Is this legally possible for the *... |
2023/08/17 | 1,169 | 4,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a job at an elite women's liberal arts college, which is part of a co-ed group of liberal arts colleges where students can easily take classes at any of these colleges (in the humanities, if that's helpful).
I assume it'd be pretty essential to address the fact that the job is... |
2023/08/17 | 1,393 | 5,733 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning on applying for PHD's in the UK over the next 12 months - Criminology PHD's specifically.
What is dissuading me is the funding situation. International Students do not have their tuition fees fully covered by their funding stipend and therefore will incur hefty fees.
I am a Repu... |
2023/08/18 | 537 | 2,240 | <issue_start>username_0: Many journals choose single anonymized review processing instead of double anonymized. I wonder what are the considerations behind these decisions to choose the single anonymized review?<issue_comment>username_1: The big advantage of single-blind review is ease. You do not have to anonymize the... |
2023/08/18 | 783 | 3,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a not enough checked for errors proof of an important math conjecture, P=NP (for your calmness: the proof is not very constructive). 8 pages.
Where can I post it for scrutinized checking?
I posted it and the question to check the proof in ResearchGate.net. I tried to post it at Physics... |
2023/08/18 | 574 | 2,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted my first paper to a well-known journal in the field. After about 1.5 months, the first decision was a major revision which I completed promptly and re-submitted (the decision was by a single reviewer, and of course, the editor).
After about another month the same reviewer ... |
2023/08/18 | 1,438 | 6,103 | <issue_start>username_0: My partner and I are both in academia - he is a medical fellow and I am a PhD candidate in biology. It looks like I'm going to be defending in about a year or two and he will likely be finishing his fellowship in 2 years. This means that we're going to be in a position where we're looking for l... |
2023/08/19 | 5,320 | 22,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper that had a similar idea to a paper that a famous professor wrote. I put my paper in arXiv. He put his paper on arXiv after me. I asked him to cite my paper, but he outright refused to do that, even though it was obviously the same idea.
His paper got accepted at a prominent con... |
2023/08/19 | 853 | 3,576 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my MSc dissertation for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. My university allocates a 3-month period for the whole project.
At this point in the project, I realised my reasoning behind the model is somewhat flawed, but that is not a valid reason to request an extension. I ... |
2023/08/19 | 596 | 2,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student at a University that isn't top rated in my field, and have only published once before and wasn't even cited. I want to submit what I believe is a really great paper to the top conference in my field. Will my paper be judged only on its merits? Or will my lack of credentials p... |
2023/08/20 | 475 | 1,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from a U.S university one year ago. If one year after my graduation a person or a group of persons claim(s) to the university that I harassed them (verbally or physically), could this claim lead to the revoking of my degree?<issue_comment>username_1: Universities and colleges are go... |
2023/08/20 | 1,291 | 4,815 | <issue_start>username_0: The Arecibo observatory [shuts down](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/closing-down-an-icon-will-arecibo-observatory-ever-do-science-again1/) its science.
This looks like the last step in its long decline caused by gradually reducing funding over time: the huge legendary radio telesco... |
2023/08/20 | 679 | 2,906 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote to a professor at a German research institute who was hiring PhD students. His area was a bit different from mine, but he wanted to have a chat. We met over Zoom and I told him about my projects. He found it impressive and said he wanted to explore supervising me and would get one of hi... |
2023/08/21 | 1,990 | 6,505 | <issue_start>username_0: Background information (you can skip this)
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There's a technology called automatic textbook billing, or "inclusive" access (IA). It is also known by [many other names](https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/resources/faq#:%7E:text=How%20do%20I,and%20Immediate%... |
2023/08/21 | 302 | 1,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently published at a prestigious conference and I am a solo author. I also do not affiliate to any company or university at the time or during the writing of the paper(I will start my PhD in Fall). What should I write under my name in the camera-ready copy? Currently, I have "Independent R... |
2023/08/21 | 1,216 | 5,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an article for review from a journal I did not review for before and honestly haven't even heard of so far. It is not a predatory journal, just a journal that until quite recently had a very narrow scope that did not overlap at all with my field of research. The article I was sent to... |
2023/08/21 | 1,208 | 5,576 | <issue_start>username_0: For the next semester, I'd like to give students a reflection exercise after their first assignment -- specifically to confirm that they can access the feedback I leave in the online homework system. However, it seems like a blocker in the case of students who simply skip the initial assignment... |
2023/08/21 | 298 | 1,302 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to a CS conference which was accepted after about ~2 weeks. Upon acceptance they notified me that reviewer feedback was withheld until registration was completed (~$490).
This seems quite predatory and a large red flag. I am fairly new to academia so my confidence ... |
2023/08/21 | 4,416 | 18,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student studying theoretical physics at a US institution. I am now beginning my fourth year in the program, and struggling to solve my first research problem. I see PhD students around me keep writing papers while I am still struggling to write the first one.
My advisor suggested a ... |
2023/08/21 | 2,453 | 10,313 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to email a potential supervisor for a PhD opportunity in aerospace engineering (astrodynamics curriculum) for introducing myself and getting more information about the PhD. I would like attaching my CV to the email, but I have some doubts about its formatting. After some online resear... |
2023/08/21 | 2,160 | 8,673 | <issue_start>username_0: A curiosity inspired by [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/200411/120628) by user [Allure](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/84834/allure), on a previous question I had regarding how to recognize predatory or otherwise disreputable journals.
In the answer, it is noted th... |
2023/08/22 | 799 | 3,261 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago, I graduated with both a master's and bachelor's degree from a globally ranked top-10 university. My overall classification was an average upper-second class (UK) - which is around a 3.4-3.5 GPA for the US-based. For context, an upper-second lies in the range of 60-69 whereas a ... |
2023/08/22 | 388 | 1,728 | <issue_start>username_0: To conduct my study, I had to use thousands of lines of **R code** to generate random data and to do analysis. Now, when I am going to submit my manuscript to my targeted journal, do they ask to provide all the code? As I never submitted any article before, so I don't know what to do!
I have r... |
2023/08/22 | 1,196 | 5,293 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm leaving university soon and the academic email address I've been providing in my research papers and academic contacts to reach me will be deactivated by the end of November.
What action should I undertake not to lose them?<issue_comment>username_1: Your university may be willing to extend... |
2023/08/22 | 1,916 | 7,960 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking to apply for a PhD position at a UK university but I desperately feel I am in a catch 22 situation. What I've read online, is that supervisors are very busy and receive many such emails so before contacting a PhD supervisor, I need to get familiar with their research.
I contacted ... |
2023/08/22 | 551 | 2,280 | <issue_start>username_0: I want a tenure-track job in math. Is there anything else to know other than to publish a lot and have good teaching?<issue_comment>username_1: Publishing quality papers and excellent teaching help, of course. Quantity isn't the same as quality, however, and your teaching needs to be attested t... |
2023/08/23 | 893 | 3,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for a PhD/job position. I sent an email to a group doing things potentially aligned with my interests. I had an interview with them and I am not enthusiastic about the project. I could see myself joining the group but the topic is quite far from my perfect topic.
They encouraged m... |
2023/08/23 | 1,061 | 4,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an instructor for a local CS class (online). We are trying something new. We are offering a 17 week program for CS (programing). The program is divided into 3 sections of 5 weeks each and then 2 weeks for the final project. Every 5 weeks, new students are enrolled. This means now I have st... |
2023/08/24 | 1,214 | 5,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I find myself in a complex situation involving citations between a published paper and the thesis from which it originated. Here are the key details:
I submitted my thesis for examination and, during the 8-month review period, published a paper based on one of its chapters.
The paper was also ... |
2023/08/24 | 3,918 | 16,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new adjunct professor at a US university teaching calculus. I had a student complain during my first lecture and tell me that the order in which I was covering the material was wrong and that they spoke on behalf of all the students in saying that I was confusing them. They were trying t... |
2023/08/25 | 3,211 | 13,685 | <issue_start>username_0: My group leader was supposed to give an invited presentation (all expenses paid) at a conference halfway around the world. Due to personal reasons he can't go (more or less last minute, the event is in a month) and has asked me to give the presentation for him, the conference organizers are hap... |
2023/08/25 | 875 | 3,782 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a couple of studies in which I don't agree with the analysis methods but the authors have graciously made the data available.
I'm considering working on some re-analyses of these studies using this publicly-available data. Broadly the structure of these papers is to
1. discuss issue... |
2023/08/26 | 440 | 1,820 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to get the LOC call number of multiple ebooks.
I used to use <http://classify.oclc.org/>, but now the website doesn't seem to work anymore.
Is there a (freely accessible) platform, database, dataset, or API that allows user to retrieve a LOC call number for a book?
By the way, I have ... |
2023/08/26 | 1,223 | 4,478 | <issue_start>username_0: While learning mathematics, I found "Hilbert spaces", "Vieta's Formulas", and "Cauchy Equation." My question is what is the rule for using "Mike's Theorem" and "Mike Theorem"?
Why are there not "Hilbert's spaces", "Vieta Formulas" and "Cauchy's Equation"?<issue_comment>username_1: In theory (s... |
2023/08/26 | 451 | 2,083 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question regarding the submission process on arXiv. I previously submitted a paper and now I would like to update it using the "replace" feature. **However, despite attempting this process twice, my requests have not been executed and the paper remains unchanged.** I'm wondering what t... |
2023/08/27 | 392 | 1,786 | <issue_start>username_0: Submission systems like ScholarOne or Editorial Manager have options where one can indicate absence / unavailability periods. In what context are these options useful and do you make use of them?<issue_comment>username_1: If the submission is disappearing at the end of the expiration date, the ... |
2023/08/27 | 2,676 | 10,577 | <issue_start>username_0: I got admitted to Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, for a bachelor's in physics. I am starting this fall and it'll take around 4 years to graduate.
It'd be good to do the right things early, from the beginning. I want to have a clear roadmap of what you have to do right now... |
2023/08/27 | 934 | 3,854 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a certain rule that if your PhD degree is more than 6–7 years old, you cannot apply for a postdoc position.
Suppose a physically and mentally 100% fit 70-year-old person obtained his PhD degree in 1996 from Southeast Asia. He then worked as a teacher in two tertiary public institution... |
2023/08/27 | 2,741 | 10,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I keep hearing from Americans that on average, private universities tend to be better than public ones.
[This study](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022057419875124) by Klafke et al. concludes:
>
> A recurrent problem reported by the students, especially by the public undergra... |
2023/08/27 | 1,105 | 4,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a grad student in the life sciences. I have to mentor several undergrad students. One student in particular is just so bad and is always getting confused with protocols. He can't follow a protocol from start to finish without getting help from me or others, even if he has done it multiple ... |
2023/08/27 | 2,445 | 10,525 | <issue_start>username_0: We found out that a graduate student coworker was hiding materials and even throwing them away when they realised they might get caught.
With this they were not only stealing but also actively stopping others from doing experiments (materials worth 500 $ – 1000 $). When we approached them, the... |
2023/08/27 | 493 | 2,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to an international conference, but the registration fees were initially undetermined. Once the list of accepted papers was published, the conference website provided information about the registration fees with some reductions offered for participants from low-income countr... |
2023/08/29 | 1,022 | 4,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student (international) at a University in the US (TX). I was offered a TA position, however the position requires me to work as an instructor of the course. I worked before as well with a similar opportunity.
Being an instructor I have more work responsibilities compared ... |
2023/08/29 | 981 | 3,963 | <issue_start>username_0: A while back I co-authored a commentary with a colleague. I would now like to write an original article/paper, as a sole author, based on the commentary I co-authored. Basically, I want to extend the ideas presented in the commentary. Do I need my colleague's permission to do so?
If I do need ... |
2023/08/29 | 940 | 3,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in (applied) math. I have completed one year and have two years left on my contract. I want to stay in academia, so I'm trying to decide whether to apply for tenure track jobs this year. There is one department I am particularly interested in, and it is my understanding that they... |
2023/08/29 | 1,393 | 5,875 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third-year computer engineering student at a university in Croatia.
In 2020, my Computer Architecture professor asked me to make an assembler and an emulator for PicoBlaze that would run in any modern browser. In return, he would excuse me from the assembly language exam (meaning he w... |
2023/08/29 | 3,402 | 13,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in a third world country. I barely make ends meet so I cannot afford to go to college. However my passion for academics never died so I kept self learning with online materials. However beyond a certain level, free material is not sufficient and is hard to find so I end up relying on sci... |
2023/08/29 | 1,068 | 4,731 | <issue_start>username_0: Ever since the escalation of the war in Ukraine in 2022, numerous institutions have reacted to the event in different ways. Some cut partnerships with Russian scholars completely while others took a more sympathetic approach, arguing that most researchers do not condone the war and politics sho... |
2023/08/30 | 622 | 2,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 28 year old international student (Male, if it matters for the question ahead) and am about to graduate with a Masters degree in a foreign country. I want to pursue a PhD and have a few offers. But I don't think I am in the right frame of mind to do so immediately. Financially, I want to p... |
2023/08/30 | 2,329 | 9,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently defended my master's thesis in artificial intelligence. Among other things, I invented a new algorithm that I would like to publish. The domain is natural language processing, with papers viewable for free on [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/).
For backstory: I developed my ... |
2023/08/30 | 869 | 3,729 | <issue_start>username_0: Ahmedabad University is going to organize an annual [economic conference](https://ahduni.edu.in/academics/schools-centres/amrut-mody-school-of-management/events/5th-annual-economics-conference/). I have completed my graduation this year. A few conferences which were held at my university publis... |
2023/08/30 | 810 | 3,616 | <issue_start>username_0: In a few weeks time I will be having my viva exam and I was wondering of a few things regarding the presentation in which I will be presenting four algorithms from four of my published papers.
Since my advisor recommended that the presentation be less than 25 slides due to the viva time limit ... |
2023/08/30 | 1,673 | 7,296 | <issue_start>username_0: My brother has written a paper which is essentially a survey of different techniques to accomplish a certain security related goal. He has also managed to present it in some conference.
Unfortunately, I do not think that this paper meets the standard of a rigorous research article for a few re... |
2023/08/30 | 2,710 | 11,323 | <issue_start>username_0: I have obtained multiple bachelor's degrees and a master's degree. I'm very motivated to pursue an academic career, for which obtaining a PhD seems like a necessity. However, I find it hard to decide on what kind of PhD positions I should be applying to. I often feel like a subject would be int... |
2023/08/30 | 323 | 1,343 | <issue_start>username_0: For instance, say I introduce the term "macular degeneration" in the abstract and follow it with (MD) to establish the abbreviation. Should I just use (MD) from then on, including in the introduction? Or is the abstract often read separately and the reader expects all groundwork to be laid from... |
2023/08/30 | 2,447 | 10,070 | <issue_start>username_0: While writing my PhD I've come across some writings that were OUTSTANDINGLY well written, handy and helpful.
Obviously I cited them, but as I understand, thesis citations aren't counted by various bibliometry tools. Also, in my opinion, a single citation doesn't show how much I enjoyed a paper... |
2023/08/31 | 512 | 1,919 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper has been rejected (with a "Reject and Resubmit" status), and the Editor has recommended resubmitting it with the revision contents that incorporate the reviewer's feedback. I am considering not resubmitting it and submitting the article to another journal. Should I inform the editor th... |
2023/08/31 | 2,764 | 12,486 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a bachelor's degree in math (from Ghana) and for my final year project, I did something in applied topology; I explored the application of persistent homology to topological data analysis. I am considering applying for a master's degree and would like to do something that directly relate... |
2023/08/31 | 1,067 | 4,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote my master thesis in Germany and submitted it on time. After checking I notice some small typing errors and some problems with my references (minor ones, not a problem really). I just saw that I accidentally added the same paragraph (300 words) twice in a row. This resulted from how I pr... |
2023/08/31 | 1,055 | 4,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an RA with an unorthodox path. During my PhD I had to move from a group to working alone with a different set of supervisors that didn't have much of a connection to my topic and after my PhD they couldn't help. I am now an RA but I mostly do teaching and no research. My teaching experienc... |
2023/09/01 | 787 | 3,440 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understand you cannot publish your paper in two different journals, I was wondering if the same rule applies to chapters in books. My research (52 pages long) was summarized into 20 pages to fit into a chapter of a book and in another language (Portuguese). Now, I would like to publish the... |
2023/09/01 | 348 | 1,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering generating a DOI for my thesis, but I wondered if this would be a problem if I wanted to write a paper out of it.
Theoretically, the paper would not be exactly the same as my thesis, but it would be pretty similar.
I've found equivalent questions here, but none of the response... |
2023/09/02 | 806 | 3,323 | <issue_start>username_0: Genuinely curious! From my perspective the postdocs have even less freedom than I do (I work in a national lab, where although I'm a PhD student my experience sadly is more like an employee). I know research fellowships are different, but seeing as most people go PhD -> Postdoc, this to me does... |
2016/08/02 | 801 | 3,205 | <issue_start>username_0: Besides being "one of the 7 meta-questions every site should ask", it's just plain important. An "AI Stackexchange" site has been tried before, at least once, and possibly a few times. And in the past, it's been killed for lack of activity.
So, how do we promote this site well enough to attrac... |
2016/08/02 | 2,240 | 8,111 | <issue_start>username_0: Are all questions asked on stats and data science SE also on topic here? Or is there some rule such as (on-topic in stats or data science SE implies off-topic here)?
Data science and the stats SE already have a huge overlap (>~80%), I am worried to have a third SE that also significantly overl... |
2016/08/02 | 2,196 | 8,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen several questions that use the [artificial-intelligence](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence "show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'") tag, sometimes as the only tag on the question. That is not useful for categorizing questions, so please do... |
2016/08/02 | 915 | 3,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm seeing a lot of answers from people along the lines of "AI is just bits and bytes and ultimately cannot be smarter than its creator because its creator would have to use their brain to make something smarter than themselves, which isn't possible."
It's kind of baffling to me to see these a... |
2016/08/02 | 235 | 829 | <issue_start>username_0: The latter is the canonical way to refer to the field, and its unclear when, if ever, [deep-network] would be preferable. Its a small change, but it'd help avoid very odd sounding questions like ["What is Deep Network?"](https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/96/109)<issue_comment>username_1: I would s... |
2016/08/02 | 479 | 2,004 | <issue_start>username_0: During the private beta we have the opportunity to send Emails via stack exchange:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2c4CE.jpg)
And because stackexchange is already well-known on the net, it is more probable that our invitatio... |
2016/08/02 | 456 | 2,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a question that was meant to discuss artificial intelligence in general. I tagged it [artificial-intelligence](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence "show questions tagged 'artificial-intelligence'"), and someone fairly pointed out that that's redundant. ... |
2016/08/02 | 3,379 | 9,552 | <issue_start>username_0: I was going to answer a question about reinforcement learning and wanted to show some formulas using the same notation I use on CrossValidated, for instance:
$r\_{t+1}+\gamma \max\_a Q(s\_{t+1},a)$
But it is currently not supported, at least the way I tried it. Can we have support for LaTeX f... |
2016/08/02 | 908 | 3,285 | <issue_start>username_0: We have a [chatroom](//chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/43371/artificial-intelligence). At the moment it doesn't really have a name. Other sites' chatroom names include:
* Super User's "Root Access"
* PPCG's "The Nineteenth Byte"
* Blender's "The Renderfarm"
* Pets' "The Litterbox"
* Travel's "You... |
2016/08/02 | 1,611 | 6,356 | <issue_start>username_0: A core goal of the private beta is to generate high-quality content that will attract experts. We are also given the opportunity to invite experts by email to the private beta. My question is simple: exactly what kind of experts are we trying to attract?
According to [this question](https://a... |
2016/08/03 | 321 | 1,125 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it AI or A.I., or both abbreviations are fine? Basically, with the dots or without?<issue_comment>username_1: In British English it has to be "AI".
In American English it can be both "AI" and "A.I.".
Sources:
* <http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/punctuation-in-abbreviations-ameri... |
2016/08/03 | 353 | 1,500 | <issue_start>username_0: There are two tags: [quantum-computers](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quantum-computers "show questions tagged 'quantum-computers'") and [quantum-computing](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quantum-computing "show questions tagged 'quantum-computing'"). Some questio... |
2016/08/03 | 724 | 2,888 | <issue_start>username_0: AI is a bloated term---we are facing this since day 1 of the definition stage. There are already quite a few questions going beyond the original (blurry) boundary of the proposal, notably on implementation issues.
But the worst problem seems to be the lack of objectivity in answers, and someti... |
2016/08/03 | 889 | 3,285 | <issue_start>username_0: Today, I was looking at the oldest questions asked in other sites. Take **Geographic Information Systems** as an example:
[The site's age is 6y1m](http://stackexchange.com/sites#technology-oldest) and and as it is seen in [the area51 page of the site](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposal... |
2016/08/04 | 493 | 2,187 | <issue_start>username_0: How should we as a site treat answers which are simply copy-pasted from another source, (whether with or without attribution)? Particularly those which show little understanding of the topic on the part of the poster.
I won't name anyone, but I've seen an answer where the user apparently simpl... |
2016/08/04 | 1,520 | 5,950 | <issue_start>username_0: At one point I thought I got it, but then I lost again.
Few highlights:
* <https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/46>
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* <https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7>
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> No, dat... |
2016/08/04 | 414 | 1,540 | <issue_start>username_0: It was [suggested](https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/a/72/8) that:
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> "implementation problems" be explicitly listed as outside the scope of this site
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Can we clarify what this could mean? Some example would be useful.
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[@InquisitiveLurker](https://ai.meta.stackexchange.com/que... |
2016/08/04 | 1,396 | 5,174 | <issue_start>username_0: In these early days, how can we attract attention to the best questions? The current front page does not accurately reflect this. Keeping in mind that our goal is to invite experts, I think it would be great if we could manually curate a list of questions that we can tout as ideal questions for... |
2016/08/05 | 862 | 3,333 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a constant war between spammers and website operators, to prevent websites from spam. CAPTCHA's are the tools to protect sites, and are the front line of this arms race.
This is an area of AI research that is directly relevant to the public.
The question is if we should allow postin... |
2016/08/05 | 789 | 3,225 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my question about a very common problem faced while training several data science and AI algorithms, and most importantly while backpropogating errors in neural networks, which is **getting trapped in a local minima while descending gradient.**
So, according to the discussion under the... |
2016/08/06 | 1,133 | 4,520 | <issue_start>username_0: So, can someone help me understand what the scope of the site is?
[I ask a question about Monte Carlo search](https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1358/101), which is one of the core algorithms behind the Go playing **AI bot**, AlphaGo, and it is closed off as off-topic, citing this reason `This que... |
2016/08/07 | 641 | 2,413 | <issue_start>username_0: It would be nice to add <https://stats.stackexchange.com/> as a migration target:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/emrFr.png)<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, that would definitely be a good idea; we get a lot of questions that belo... |
2016/08/09 | 1,098 | 4,005 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently we've the following tags related to gaming:
[ai-games](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai-games "show questions tagged 'ai-games'"), [gaming](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gaming "show questions tagged 'gaming'"), [go-game](https://ai.stackexchange.com/qu... |
2016/08/10 | 1,002 | 3,931 | <issue_start>username_0: At the beginning we were worried that this site won't provide anything useful. Is that still the case?
As [@Ben](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31517321#31517321) mentioned:
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> Right now, the default state is **fail** unless we can show SE that we bring something new to *t... |
2016/08/10 | 872 | 3,366 | <issue_start>username_0: We've this old thread at Area 51 (related to older site proposal which failed):
* [How is this proposal different from Cross Validated?](https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11659/61861)
In general accepted [post](https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11708/61861) says:
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2016/08/11 | 1,236 | 5,169 | <issue_start>username_0: By AI programming, I mean somebody asks how to solve programming issue which deals with AI logic specifically, e.g.
* [Why does my NN not classify these tic tac toe pattern correctly?](https://ai.stackexchange.com/q/1570/8)
The above example uses Keras, highly modular neural networks library ... |
2016/08/12 | 1,620 | 5,869 | <issue_start>username_0: You can see that [here](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93481?phase=commitment). However, most of the questions here feel rather more on the technological side of artificial intelligence. Those questions are on-topic on Data Science. *That* site was created as a site for the technolog... |