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The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...

What is considered to be a good frequency to do a tag clean up? I've initiated something like that two years ago with Geoff Oxberry. Actions to be considered: Identify misspelled tags and correct ...

One parameter that gets evaluated in the process of graduation of a beta site to a full-blown StackExchange site is the number of unanswered questions. According to Area51, this is now 80% ("Needs ...

Summary: Computational Science Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on May 6 to bring in one more moderator. For full details of the process, see the announcement on ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

The question Is there an alternative to SIMION? was posted recently on the physics site. It sounds like something that may be better suited for this community, but I'm not sure to what extent software-...

The question "given the inverse/a certain factorization of $A$, can I compute cheaply one of $A+B$?" is one that gets asked a lot here, in slightly different forms: for instance when $A$ is symmetric, ...

I've been meaning to post this question for a while, but only now got around to it. Over the last year or two, it has been my observation that a) the rate of (good) new questions has decreased ...

Here is the question: link. If it's a better fit, I'll ask the Math.SE mods to migrate it. I suppose this meta question could be about the more general case about posting here vs on Math.SE when the ...

Does this proposal define a new site beyond Computational Science, not to mention Server Fault, Super User, Linux, and our other computing sites? Research Computing (proposal link) for research ...

In short, what is the difference between the efficiency and performance tags? Are they different enough to keep them separate or should one be a synonym of the other? According to Wikipedia, ...

Firefox android has a "reader view", based on readability.js, that is the only way for it to save a page for offline browsing. (You first click the stylized-book icon within the address bar at the ...

Often, people ask the same question on multiple StackExchange websites. While this might be sometimes fine (a question did not get enough attention, the posts are cross-linked, some time has passed ...

Is it possible to put up proper sitemaps for Google search, instead of some random users?

The algorithm run by "Community" to elevate certain questions to the top of the list seems seriously flawed IMHO. The description of its tasks includes: "Randomly poke old unanswered questions every ...

With some frequency, we get questions that are purely about programming (such as "What's wrong with my loop?" or "How do I read from a file?") and thus rightly voted on to close as off-topic -- but ...

I just asked a question about PCA and scipy's implementation of PCA compared to mine. You can find it here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38799205/why-are-my-manual-pca-reconstructions-not-...

I've posted a few comments in response to other users and tried to use the @ notation to direct my comment to a specific user. This works on other stackexchange sites but I'm wondering if it works ...

Last year, MathOverflow has added a pretty nifty "Insert citation" button to the markdown editor, which is very handy for inserting links to (mathematical) papers or books one wants to mention in ...

From the description of cross validate and computational science it seems that cross validate is the correct site to ask question about Machine learning? Am I right to say that? Or what site is better ...

I do research in matrix equations, which (at least in my field) is commonly accepted to mean "equations whose unknown is a matrix, such as an algebraic Riccati equation $A^*X+XA+Q-XGX=0$, everything ...

I asked a question and and I got an answer on the question. Now I have a small related question. Should I make a new question post? If I edit my original question with the new small question, will the ...

As there are many people on scicomp interested in CFD applications, I want to announce to you all that there is an active proposal on SE for OpenFOAM. OpenFOAM is a widely used open-source C++ based ...

Globus is a toolkit for moving large amounts of scientific data between clusters or to local machines. It's designed and mostly used for scientific computing. Questions about tools are generally on-...

Are questions about implementation of specific tasks in specific computer algebra systems on-topic here? If so, can we create a computer-algebra tag? Context: I have been feeling around on the ...

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. However, these days most nuclear weapon states uses Super ...

I asked this question on StackOverflow, but it's probably not the right audience, since it has only received 2 views as of my posting this question. I am wondering if it would be okay to ask this on ...

Is it possible to log out from this website? I am trying to find the log out button - but not very successfully.

Basically, I need to know what are the various tools, technologies that are used in Robotic Process Automation.

I have a collection of rectangular matrices which consists of a set of points with associated values. I need to copy this rectangular matrix into a square matrix. The values that get "left out" can be ...

I posted a question here . But unfortunately, it didn't get any answers. I wondered may be this question is more appropriate for math.stackexchange. But I feel it's related to site. How can I know ...

We all love Computational Science Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...

Is this sort of question off topic? Does Gaussian 09 keep a log of submitted jobs? If so where is the file located? I realize this is not strictly about computation, and may be better suited for ...

Are bioinformatics questions on-topic on this forum? Or is there a .stackexchange forum more dedicated to bioinformatics?

Sometimes it happened to me to see questions/answers downvoted without a comment about it. I think it is more useful for the user who gets a downvote to understand why he/she got it instead of just ...

I was reading the post on the self-evaluation of the site and just wondered if it would be a good idea for the popularity of this site to build "big standard" community questions? For example: "...

We all love Computational Science Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...

Just to give you a bit regarding my background: I am a math undergraduate working on biology modelling problems. I have a strong background in Python, but it is only over the last few months that I ...

Is it right to request certain document of academic nature such as Ph.D thesis in forums? At present, I need a Ph.D thesis for some references.

Inspired by this question on meta.TeX.SE, I thought it might be useful to collect some comment templates (to be customized) for some standard situations in a form suitable for quick copy&paste (...

When one votes to close a question for being off-topic, one of the possible choices is that it "belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network", but the only site to choose from in the next ...

Would asking a question about Penrose tiling's be a good fit for the venue or would it fit better in the math SE? It is a question about how to compute the tiling, more practical algorithims whatnot, ...

I have a small budget to build a computer that I plan on using for scientific computing purposes (I write and run 32-bit Python/C simulations). However, I am completely out of the loop when it comes ...

I have the impression that here there are more Paraview users than on StackOverflow. I already posted a few questions there, should I migrate them? Or cross post?

We all love Computational Science Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...

Hello CS Beta users and moderator(s) We have recently created a proposal for Ocean Modeling for researchers who use computational modeling tools to answer ocean science questions. I have posted the ...

Hi Computational Science! I'm currently updating a meta.physics.se post that encourages members to support other scientific SE sites. Several of those sites are in Area 51 and get an automatic advert ...

Denizens of Math.SE may be familiar with a device there for drafting long, complex edits to Answers. A thread of community wiki posts exists on Meta-Math.SE, Sandbox for drafts of long, complex ...

We all love Computational Science Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from ...