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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:44 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 15, 2015 at 9:01 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @StefanKohl I see the dichotomy more as "modelling questions are off-topic per se, in all cases, just because of what they are" versus "modelling questions are not forbidden, but of course they still have to satisfy the same criteria as the other questions to be acceptable, especially if they are 'soft questions' without a well-defined answer". | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:42 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Why this strict dichotomy between "modelling questions are on-topic on MO" and "modelling questions are off-topic on MO"? -- Can't we say that particularly good such questions are welcome here, but we don't want a huge bulk of such questions -- in a similar way as with soft questions? | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:26 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:18 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | In this connection it might be instructive to consider the development of Compressed Sensing, and the role that Terence Tao played in this application of pure math to data analysis. Can you imagine that we would have closed this as "off-topic" for MO? --- terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/compressed-sensing | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 6:36 | history | answered | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |