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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
Yes, absolutely. Regardless of your position on the whole "theory vs. implementation" thing, math is an essential part of AI and having convenient access to LaTex would be a boon here.
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
Here are several questions and answers that would benefit from MathJax support on this website. These are just a few examples I've found in a 5 minutes search. Nevertheless, I think this number is ...
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Why isn't the [artificial-intelligence] tag blacklisted?
It appears that a community manager has now blacklisted artificial-intelligence. Questions that only had that tag are now untagged. (The version without the hyphen, artificialintelligence, is blocked ...
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Why isn't the [artificial-intelligence] tag blacklisted?
Stack Exchange sites have a mechanism called "intrinsic tag blacklisting" that's intended to do exactly this - prevent the tag that simply describes the topic from being used.
However, the way the ...
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
I think we should discourage the use of LaTeX, but should allow it. Our goal is to attract experts in AI, and the language of AI (today) is math. Like that post in the OP (which I wrote, btw), I think ...
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Are bots used for spam filtering in SE.AI currently?
Yes, SmokeDetector is active on Artificial Intelligence as well, and it's automatically flagging posts of which it's 99.75% sure it's spam. Fortunately, Artificial Intelligence doesn't see as much ...
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What is stopping us from expanding our scope strategically?
I am against this idea because there are already other sites (DS SE and Stack Overflow) that cover these programming issues.
If we allowed this type of question, there would be more reasons to merge ...
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Is the incentive of the down vote undifferentiated by the existence of associated reasoning non-optimal for SE?
I and many others would be very happy if people explained their downvotes more often. Essentially this request has been already been discussed on Meta Stack Exchange. As a result, the "please consider ...
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Is it possible to place a banner stating that programming questions are off-topic here?
Yes, I agree that this is a concerning trend. Though we have an on-topic page that categorizes such questions as off-topic, there is not a direct link to that help center article on the asking form. ...
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What topics can I ask about here?
We should drop any reference to implementation specifically being on or off topic. That's really orthogonal to the issue and it makes it too easy for people to justify arbitrarily closing good ...
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
I, for one, would love its inclusion. I do not believe it is possible to divorce AI from mathematics on many levels. For instance, I wanted to ask a question regarding the use of backpropagation with ...
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
I would like to add to the calls for LaTeX support with a specific topic.
In my opinion, the AI Stack Exchange should be the home for questions about Reinforcement Learning.
RL questions actually ...
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
Starting a new list of math questions to expand on nbro's list:
https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/6633/back-propagation-in-nn-with-sigmoid-activation-function-division-by-0 (post deleted)
https:...
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
While it might be nice to have for some questions, most questions you would need LaTeX for should be off-topic here. This site is not meant for machine learning questions, as Cross Validated and Data ...
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Increase the number of sites for flag "off-topic->another site"
This is a good idea. We'll need to wait, though, until our site graduates — a site generally doesn't become available as a migration source (except to its own meta) or target until the beta ...
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Should the threshold for post closure by non-moderators be reduced from 5 to 3?
Some of you may have noticed the Meta Stack Exchange post - Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites (it's linked in the featured on meta sidebar) - we've finally got this project under ...
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Is the Artificial Intelligence beta stuck with its current out-facing description?
OK, this is partially done now, sorry for the delay. This proposal (lightly edited for length) has now been used to update the blurb at the top of our tour page! To get various other instances of the ...
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When will the CMS value corresponding to the description in the communities drop down be changed?
Likely it's going to be a while. I emailed the "powers that be", noting that we're starting to get traction and that we have a prestigious sponsor, but no reply as yet. I'll ping them again after ...
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What topics can I ask about here?
Drawing on these existing discussions:
How can we quickly describe our site?
Should philosophical questions related to AI be on-topic?
A friendly reminder that this site comes from the Science ...
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How can we change the site description to match our current topic guidelines, and past votes on the description?
I just looked around a bit and it turns out that moderators can edit that tour text. Our scope has changed and widened markedly from two years ago - those discussions were held before we even had our ...
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How to do code syntax highlighting
This website should rarely need this feature, given that we are mainly concerned with theoretical and philosophical AI questions. Most implementation-related questions are off-topic here. You can ask ...
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Question deleted after answer
Yes, there are restrictions. For example, you cannot delete a question with more than one answer or with an upvoted or accepted answer. See How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, ...
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Push Notifications in questions list
The closest thing that currently exists is the main Stack Exchange site's filter/subscription feature. It doesn't do top bar push notifications as far as I know, but it can send new questions on a ...
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Is the incentive of the down vote undifferentiated by the existence of associated reasoning non-optimal for SE?
I think the number of votes is also a factor. Right now, on SE:AI, we have relatively low voting participation. This makes us a tough stack to build rep on, but it also makes the solo downvotes ...
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Other stacks should be referenced on wiki and off-topic questions
We tried to specify in our on-topic page examples of questions that would be off-topic here (see the section "Off-topic"), but we didn't provide an extensive list of types of questions that ...
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What is stopping us from expanding our scope strategically?
Simple answer:
Prior to nbro and Dennis, our scope was insanely broad
This was because I was appointed mod by Stack when the prior mods left, knew there were issues, and felt that the community ...
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Low-resolution version of logo too vague
This would indeed seem to be problematic. Although the icon is unique, it does appear to be a muddy blob of color at the smaller size. Aside from the aesthetic, it's difficult to make an association ...
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Should we make tags for the different languages?
I worry about the confusion between StackExchange AI and Stackoverflow. But as the code refers to Artificial Intelligence and these languages are becoming the tool of Data Scientists, I believe it is ...
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Is it possible to place a banner stating that programming questions are off-topic here?
There's nothing concerning about it. It's just the community speaking in regards to what they want to talk about. Let's quit trying to fight a rising tide and accept that AI is an inherently ...
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