Questions tagged [discussion]
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Advertising Test beginning Nov 13 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Site Dynamics: Any need for changes
The moderator election gave me pause to reflect on how the site has changed across time. Here are some purely descriptive graphics
Posts: all and questions
Using Anton Antonov's QuantileRegression: ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Mathematica has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 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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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Mathematica Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Thanks for 7 years of trust
Since yesterday I am not a mod. I am not going anywhere though.
I was about to resign but it happened automatically anyway because I didn't sign recent policy agreements. No politics here, I just wasn'...
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AceFEM-generated mesh versus Mathematica mesh: How to extrude 2D mesh to create a 3D mesh in AceFEM
The packages MeshTools (@Pinti) and FEMAddons seem to feature similar functions. I sometimes had strange (i.e. inconsistent results where meshing would work/not work without changing anything). Which ...
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Tags for LLM functions
There are several tags related to LLM functionality:
ai
chatai
llm
llmfunction
openai
and maybe more that I've missed.
I propose they be made synonymous with the same tag, and I suggest the tag be ...
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how I can access to a special issue of mathematica stackexchange newsletter
Every week I access one issue of Mathematica Stack Exchange Newsletter through my email, but on March 19th, unfortunately, this newletter was not sent to my email, so how can I access it.
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How should we flag computer generated answers?
Answers given by a now deleted user appear to have been computer generated:
The answers were wordy generalities
The user submitted 6 answers over a short period of time
How should these posts have ...
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When giving a reason to close a question, does "due to a simple mistake" only apply to *Mathematica* issues?
Sometimes when a question is asked there is a "simple mistake" in the subject matter rather than with Mathematica. Does voting to close "due to a simple mistake" apply only to ...
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Why isn't there a cite button in Mathematica stackexchange?
I have been using MMA stack exchange for almost 3 years and have benefited greatly from it. Sometimes, I even get useful algorithms in the answers which I would like to cite in my papers. But, unlike ...
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Is Leonid Shifrin OK these days?
His profile shows he is last seen more than a week ago. OK, this isn't worth worrying of course, what's really worth worrying is, the site http://mathprogramming-intro.org/ i.e. the website for his ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Why is this question not welcome?
The following question was recently closed:
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The specific reason for closing is not accurate and I assume reflects the lack of options. But what then was the reason for ...
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