How to ask a good [references] question?
It's very common for users to want to find references about a specific topic in machine learning, statistics, or probability. Often, these questions start from a place where the user doesn't know what...
View ArticleCurrent tag synonym candidates
Please post your tag synonym suggestions as new answers in this thread, one answer per suggestion. Upvote answers where you believe that the suggested tags should be made synonyms, and downvote answers...
View ArticleAre CV citations indexed?
I just noticed that CV questions have a "cite" option that returns the BibTeX citation of the question. I just did a quick search in StackOverflow and Data Science SE and none of them have this...
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Why my Review queue for Low quality posts appears this way?
A few minutes ago my review queue for low-quality posts was as in the figure below. After clicking on the red bullet I expected to see the flagged post but I couldn't see any, i.e. the queue was...
View ArticleMultiple answers to same question (follow-up)
As a follow-up to this post and its related comments & answers, I wonder what's the correct action to take when we encounter the issue. For instance, I came across a post that contains two answers...
View ArticleWhere can we see and learn about the Winterfest 2022 hats?
I earned hats on CV!I earned secret hats on CV!Where are these secrets divulged? This is very important stuff, people!
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What Questions are acceptable in the Machine Learning section of Cross...
I posted a question on here recently that was closed:I was unsure if it fit into this site anyway, so I'm fine with it being closed. But it left me wondering, what is an acceptable Machine Learning...
View ArticleWhere can we see and learn about the Winter Bash 2022 hats?
I earned hats on CV!I earned secret hats on CV!Where are these secrets divulged? This is very important stuff, people!
View ArticleA broad question has many near duplicates — How to decide whether to suggest...
This weekend a question got asked about exploratory analysis and p-hacking:Is "Exploratory Data Analysis" Fundamentally At Odds With "P-Hacking"?This is a broad topic to begin with and the question —...
View ArticleHow to improve attention to interesting/advanced, but complex/difficult,...
TL;DR The system promotes popular questions, but popular might not need to align with characteristics that are desirable. Especially complex and difficult questions might be very desirable, but...
View ArticleWhat's the policy on Human/AI collaboration for answering questions?
On Kaggle, recently there is a person who's been answering questions with what is likely customized AI. It's not Chat GPT, but probably something more boutique / hand rolled, and possibly a result of a...
View ArticleWhy can I only delete 5 of my questions per day?
I've thought better of more than 5 of my questions. They are better-suited to being answered outside SE. I started to delete them and discovered there was a 5-per-day limit. What is the motivation...
View ArticleAre questions about ethical use of statistics on-topic?
A strong majority of the questions I have seen on this site relate to technical aspects of statistics such as mathematics, algorithms, and sample design. I am curious if questions about ethics are...
View Article2022: 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 preceding calendar year.As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange...
View ArticleTo what extent are questions about survey methodology and design appropriate?
I was thinking about asking for academic references relative to conducting a survey on the human population that frequents a transit neighborhood (transit neighborhood may be particularly challenging...
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Inconsistent view count between question page and search results page?
When I search "moose" in the search engine I see this post has 3k views:When I open up the question's page I see 4k views:Is this some kind of difference in rounding rules, or something else?
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Improve messaging on upcoming bounty expiration
I recently offered my first bounty on this question:Approaches to compare differences in means with differences in proportions?One user answered, and while I thought his answer was helpful, it mostly...
View ArticleWhat to do about answers written by ChatGPT
As you may be aware, over the last week Stack Overflow has been plagued by some users' feeding questions posted there into the chat-bot 'ChatGPT' then copy-&-pasting its responses into purported...
View ArticleHow well do unicode symbols work in questions and answers?
Only a limited subset of $\LaTeX$ is supported on this site, though enough for the vast majority of equations we'd be likely to use. Unicode symbols can still be useful, perhaps especially the more...
View ArticleIf and how to ask about soliciting domain knowledge relevant to priors
One of the less precisely-defined (mathematically or otherwise) aspects of performing Bayesian inference is assignment of priors based on domain knowledge, and there are plenty of questions on choosing...
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