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What is the best way to encourage other SE sites to include us in their FAQs?
I can definitely edit the Physics FAQ to link here. That has actually been a long-standing item on our meta.
update: this is now done.
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How do I (we?) fix the "usable, fast C++ matrix library" question?
To be honest, I can't really think of a way to make the question really ideal for the Stack Exchange model without completely rewriting it, and potentially invalidating some of the existing answers in …
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How many questions is too many questions?
As Juanlu001 said, there is really no such thing as too many questions, as long as they are good questions.
However, as you probably know, on Stack Exchange we expect people to do some research befor …
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what is computational science difference from the computer science?
Computer science, the topic of those other two sites, is about the theoretical analysis of algorithms and data structures. It could be considered a branch of fundamental mathematics.
Computational sc …
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How much editing is too much?
My rule of thumb is that editing without changing the applicability of existing answers is generally fine. I think you get up to 10 edits before the post is automatically converted to CW, so just keep …
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Should we allow homework questions?
I would say generally yes, for a couple of reasons:
Scientific computation is a relatively advanced subject. You need to have a fair amount of expertise in both programming and your chosen field of …
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Should we close questions just because their answers may be lists?
The guidelines that work on one SE site don't necessarily work on another, so just because other sites discourage list questions, it doesn't mean we necessarily need to do the same here.
Take Stack O …
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What is our policy on ambiguous tags?
First of all, something as short and non-descriptive (to the non-specialist) as dft definitely shouldn't exist as a tag on its own, because it's easy to define a tag synonym for it. Posters will still …
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What questions do we want to encourage as on-topic in our FAQ?
Motivated by Deathbreath's answer, I think a list of allowed questions is fine, but we shouldn't treat it as a set of strict rules for topicality. I'm sure most people here have some already-conceived …
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How appropriate are software package-specific questions?
This is a similar situation to e.g. Trello on Webapps (see meta discussions here and here). What emerged out of that case is the idea that bug reports and feature requests are definitely off topic, bu …
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Is data visualization off topic?
I would say no, visualization questions should be on topic here. Visualization is a part of scientific computing, after all, and probably the most tangible part at that. Plots and pretty pictures are …
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