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Revisiting our off-topic policy
Yes, and we should specify our policies to be more inclusive.
(In fact, I believe the original consensus was much more inclusive, but community overturn meant that this more nuanced consensus was ...
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"Vote early, vote often"
I strongly agree with the original post by @J.M. While the community uses the website to learn new things, get answers to their questions, and find solutions to interesting problems – the positive ...
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Do we need a separate site for "researchers"?
I see little overlap between the proposed site and this one:
This site is about how to numerically solve a specific scientific problem, i.e., which algorithms, techniques, and software you should use ...
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Are software-recommendation questions on topic here?
Judging by some of the top-voted questions on this site, it seems that the community is open to software recommendation questions. I don’t recall any particular instances where such a question was ...
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Custom off-topic close reason for programming question
If it's possible, it would be a good idea. Stack Overflow is the best place for those questions, although those sorts of questions would get savaged there...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
I am very glad to become a moderator for Computational Science SE. Will try my best to be a good one. In addition to the routine moderator work, I am certainly interested in making Computational ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
@Paul, You've been an essential member of the Computational Science SE moderators team! You were definitely the one who essentially helped to shape this community to where it is now.
It was a pleasure ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
Simply merge tags with identical or close meaning:
backward-stability (4 usages) -> stability (141)
library (7 usages) -> libraries (86)
heat (7 usages) -> heat-transfer (7)
posteriori (3 usages) -> ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
Company-wide tag ansys. Ansys has multiple products that are relevant to the computational science world. At list fluent has its own tag (which is a separate topic).
Currently, we have 3 questions ...
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Revisiting our off-topic policy
I strongly support the premise of this question and have some suggestions relative
to questions about so-called "niche" libraries and applications.
Many times these niche libraries and applications ...
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Questions "poked" by Community
The description on the profile page is misleading -- what actually happens is that the community bot randomly bumps one question per hour from the list of those
scoring >= 0 that have gone at least ...
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Is my Math.SE question on numerical method error more relevant on SciComp?
Numerical analysis questions, such as error analysis, are definitely on topic here. I would say that there is a good number of people on this site with sufficient experience to answer up to standard ...
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Matlab or MATLAB?
I support writing "Matlab", with just one capital letter. This is the normal English capitalization rule. Abusing capitalization and special characters for emphasis is just a commercial ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
In linear algebra, one considers dense and sparse matrices. For the former, the tag is dense-matrix, for the latter sparse.
Suggestion: rename sparse to sparse-matrix
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React to, and prevent, answers in comments
Generally, I prefer to have an answer in the comments rather than not having any. I also don't have a problem with gently asking an author of a comment to post a proper answer and then after a certain ...
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Why we use the name Computational Science?
"Applied Math" is probably too wide, as we are focusing on computational solutions of various applied math problems. Moreover, the term "computational science [and engineering]" is ...
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Matlab or MATLAB?
This question puzzled me. So I dug a bit around.
TL;DR
Matlab seems like a much better choice for a non-legal document. For example, a journal paper or a SE community answer. Unless such spelling ...
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Converting comments (multiple) in a single answer
I think the etiquette on SE is to first comment on the comment and suggest that (one of) the commenter(s) convert/expand their comment to an answer. If they don't react (say, within a week), that'd be ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
Delete rarely used tags with poor potential to get more attention in the future:
langevin (1 usage)
thermostat (1 usage)
transformation (1 usage)
non-parametric (1 usage)
which currently clutter the ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
This is the distribution of tags
with
Median: 19.5
Interquartile range: 55.25
Mode: 3
The following wordcloud shows the relative frequency of tags.
nicoguaroMod
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Is there something about my question that suggests that I don't know what I want to ask?
Not my comments on the linked post, but I can speculate based on my impression of the differences between your post and the previous ones. I think the big difference was in the scope of the routine ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
A group of biology-related tags. In our community, we are certainly focused on computational-biology which is a relatively popular tag (25 questions as of June 4, 2019).
Suggested actions:
merge a ...
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What does it mean that this is a "beta" site?
Update on the subject matter:
Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of SE sites
There is no risk for our Computational Science Community. It's hard to imagine that we would ...
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Replace 'numerics' tag
Bringing this back up, numerics and numerical-modeling are two of the most used tags on the site. I see a couple issues with this:
Neither tag has a tag wiki or usage guidelines, so they have taken ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
Our old friends: elements and finite, both used 5 times in 9 questions total.
They are used to denote a finite-element, finite-volume, or finite-difference question
Question 1, Question 2, Question ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
The tag integration is used both for quadrature/cubature and for solving ODEs.
Suggestion: re-tag all questions that have integration with either
differential-equations
quadrature (even if ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
Rename the tag approximation-algorithms to approximation. The bulk of SciComp is about algorithms, no need to add that in a tag.
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
What is the added value of the matrix tag? It is a highly used tag (476 questions as of June 7th, 2019) but always in the context of linear-algebra. However, only 218 of 476 questions have the tag ...
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June 2019 tag clean-up initiative
The tag random (51 usages) is used for multiple topics covered by other tags:
random-number-generation (31 usages)
random-sampling (16 usages)
monte-carlo (93 usages)
stochastic (44 usages) and ...
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