Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Should questions related to Statistical Learning Theory/Multi-armed Bandits be placed here?
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There has been a lot talk (both here and CV.SE) regarding if RL questions should be encouraged to be posted here instead of CV.SE or DS.SE. The mods do not seem to agree on which path ...
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Announcement of two new specific close reasons
I'm glad to announce that we finally have 2 new specific close reasons that you can choose from the list of "community-specific close reasons".
Here's a screenshot.
These two close reasons ...
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'Bioinformatics' tag
I was just reading this question regarding the use of deep neural networks for RNA data. I noticed that the user had used the 'biology' tag instead of a 'bioinformatics' tag, so I went to edit their ...
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Should we allow users to ask for implementations of algorithms/models, which are not full software libraries/APIs, but for research purposes?
Currently, asking for software libraries, frameworks, APIs, datasets and pre-trained models is off-topic here. However, sometimes people are just looking for an implementation of a certain model or ...
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Should game theory be explicitly mentioned as a topic in our on-topic page?
Game Theory is a sub-branch of economics. In fact, Economics Stack Exchange has many questions tagged with game-theory. We also have some questions tagged with this tag. However, to me, given that I'm ...
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Should “evaluation” be a synonym for “testing”?
We currently have a tag testing with the description (written by myself)
For questions related to the concept of testing or evaluating machine learning models and algorithms.
In supervised learning, ...
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Stack Overflow is planning to give their theoretical AI/ML questions wholesale to Cross Validated
Just a note that Stack Overflow is looking to give away their closed questions on theoretical aspects of AI/ML to Cross Validated:
Let's gift wrap our (good) Machine Learning theory questions for ...
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Should “strong-ai” and “agi” be synonymous?
Some people say that strong AI would be an AGI with consciousness/self-awareness (see e.g. the Chinese Room argument), but that, in general, an AGI may not be conscious (whatever the definition of ...
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Should we have the tags “algorithm-request” and “model-request”?
There are many questions on our site that of the form (for example, this one)
Which algorithm/model can potentially solve this task X successfully?
This question is a bit problematic, because, ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Which research-related questions are on-topic here?
We have already had questions about how researchers do certain things. For instance, this one How do AI researchers imagine higher dimensions?. However, on our on-topic page, we haven't yet clarified ...
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Is it okay to ask questions related to the practices of researchers in the field?
Can I ask the questions related to the practices of researches in the field of artificial intelligence?
For example, I am facing an issue in understanding the existing codes in GitHub related to my ...
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Is survey type questions allowed in the main site?
Is it allowed to ask a question in our main site regarding all the (best) techniques available currently?
Suppose there is a text which has to be converted in to a sequence of numbers, then can I ask ...
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Should the tags resource-request and reference-request be merged?
It's been a while since asking for specific datasets, libraries/APIs and pre-trained models is off-topic here, as it is explicitly stated in our on-topic page.
However, we still have tag resource-...
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Should all “how to do (generic target)” questions be closed?
There are lots of questions of persons describing a target and asking how to do it, without any other information. The target is something very generic as "maximize the sales" or "...
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How can you help our site and community?
There are different ways to help the community and the site, apart from asking interesting questions that nobody has yet asked (have a look at this post, which gives you some information about what a ...
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Can we ask questions related to Programming?
Can we ask questions about programming questions on Pytorch, TensorFlow, or any deep learning frameworks??
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Writing algorithm formulas using MathJax
From Sutton and Barto's book Reinforcement Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series), the following definition is given for Q-Learning :
I', planning to ask a question in combining ...
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Can we ask for an intuitive explanation of models, algorithms and topics?
Can we ask for an intuitive explanation of models, algorithms, and topics related to Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning?
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Can we ask questions related to model recommendations?
Can we ask questions about deep learning model recommendations/suggestions like which model to choose or for any reference links??
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Opinionated answers on good questions
I came across this question about Chinese Room argument. I was reading a book where the author tries a different way to disprove CR argument. My point is the question:
Does the Chinese room ...
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Updates to the on-topic page (4/23/2020)
We've had a recent spam attack that resulted in an overwhelming number of links to medium articles, blogs, and other unreliable information sources.
(We're asking users to be extra vigilant until we ...
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Are we still sponsored by AWS?
After Empty 'SPONSORED BY' label under top bar - AWS logo not shown, the "sponsored by" has completely disappeared from the site. Are we still sponsored by AWS or anyone?
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On the importance of regularly voting
Similarly to On the importance of descriptive and informative titles for posts, in this post, I will motivate the importance of regularly voting (both upvoting and downvoting).
Since I've been elected ...
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Which questions related to cognitive science are on-topic?
Artificial intelligence is very related to cognitive science, but which questions related to cognitive science should be on- or off-topic here? Which questions are more appropriate for our site and ...
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On the importance of descriptive and informative titles for posts
I have been editing many posts in order to correct language mistakes, clarify the post and question, and to make the titles as much descriptive of the actual problem or question as possible. In this ...
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What should the new description of the site be?
More than one year ago, a question was asked here in order to define the new description for our site What should the AI.SE Site Description be?. I think it's time to possibly revise the description ...
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Data mining or machine learning
As part of comment In one of my posts or flaggings, I mentioned machine learning instead of data mining. There is no excuse for my wrong posting or flagging. Is this the reason that my posts are no ...
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Computer Vision as an Independent site on Stack Exchange
Having a look at different sites of Stack Exchage, it feels like Computer Vision page is really missing!
There obviously exists almost relevant pages, such as AI, Robotics, Signal Processing, ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Artificial Intelligence's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 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,...
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Is code on or off topic?
There seems to be a disconnect on the 'Tour' page about what is and isn't on topic here. Quoting directly from the about text (emphasis mine):
Artificial Intelligence Stack Exchange is a question ...
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Are bots used for spam filtering in SE.AI currently?
In stack overflow there is a couple community bots that aims to help moderation by automatically flagging posts with the stack exchange API, like this. Is bots like this used in artificial ...
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2019: a year in moderation
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, ...
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List of exemplary questions on AI theory
The purpose of this post is to compile lists of exemplary question that can be used to promote SE:AI to the wider AI research and engineering community on the internet.
Stack provides a unique ...
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Guidelines for Answer Deletion
In addition to closing poor questions, the issue of deletion of extremely poor answers has been raised, so I'm posting to solicit a conversation on guidelines for deleting answers.
1. Off-topic ...
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What should the on-topic page look like?
Similarly to What should the AI.SE Site Description be? and after the discussions On-topic and off-topic pages need to be clarified and Who decides and writes the on-topic and off-topic pages?, I ...
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Should hardware used in ML/AI on topic?
I think it would be useful to allow questions on hardware, since we're the general AI forum, and this is relevant.
(In other words, it's better to have AI-specific hardware questions asked here, b/...
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Are hardware-related questions on topic?
The question What kind of hardware and software are required to build an AI system? asks for hardware recommendations. However, there exists already a site, namely https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange....
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Summary: Artificial Intelligence Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on February 17, 2020 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the ...
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Do we need the tag 'concepts'?
Similarly to the question Do we really need the tag ai-basics?, do we really need the tag concepts?
The current description of the tag is
Use for broad questions on the concepts used in AI and ...
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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
This community last had moderators appointed in 2017, so it's been a while... In addition to that, you may have noticed that one of the current mods — Ben N — is stepping down from their moderator ...
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Upcoming change in moderators
As some have noticed, recently I haven't been able to spend as much time on AI.SE as I did earlier in the site's life. A lot has changed since then; our site specifically has grown and improved a lot. ...
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What differentiates us from other similar websites?
The topics of our website highly overlap with the topics of CrossValidated and Data Science, but also with the topics of Computer Science SE, Stack Overflow and Philosophy SE (in fact, they even have ...
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Is career advice related to academics off-topic?
I'm aware that this topic has been discussed before, and didn't have much support, but I think it's worth at least a revisit, even only if to confirm the current status.
Is career advice be off-topic ...
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The tags long-short-term-memory and lstm should be synonyms
There are the tags lstm and long-short-term-memory, but they are not marked as synonyms. Of course, the questions associated with one tag should be merged with the questions associated with the other ...
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We should rename the tag predicting-ai-milestones to simply ai-milestones
There's the tag predicting-ai-milestones, but I think it should simply be called ai-milestones because it is more general and also includes all questions that could be tagged with the first.
For ...
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What are the main problems of our Stack? What could we be doing better to grow?
Essentially, what are your thoughts on what we need to be doing, doing better, or not doing, to grow the Stack?
(This topic may have been covered in the past, but I wanted to open a new thread to ...
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Do we really need the tag ai-basics?
Do we really need the tag ai-basics?
The description of the tag ai-basics says
Use for basic, fundamental questions about AI theory or practice. (i.e. design, application, implementation, ...
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On reference and resource requests
There are at least two tags that are related to requests: reference-request and resource-request. The current description of the former is
Use this tag when requesting examples of research or links ...
