Timeline for Stack-exchange devoted to research problems, the suggested approaches and updates
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| May 24, 2019 at 9:19 | comment | added | Andrea Ferretti | Moreover, one could have a post per problem and an answer per suggested approach/related result that gives partial progress. It seems like it could work more or less | |
| May 24, 2019 at 9:17 | comment | added | Andrea Ferretti | @FedericoPoloni The format may not be ideal, but has two things going for it. FIrst, StackEnchange is very polished, second the network has already attracted a lot of users. A site such as this would not have very much value unless actual mathematicians are contributing to it, the way they are already currently contributing to MO. AFAIK, MO is quite unique in that it was the first site to gather the contribution of many working mathematicians, even at very high level. Reusing the network and the user friendly site may be better than developing a new site more tailored for this use case | |
| May 23, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Zach Teitler | "One research problem per post" --- what does this mean? What is the definition of a research problem, and how does one draw any sort of boundary between problems? What about special cases, extensions, or weak generalizations of problems? | |
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| May 20, 2019 at 20:30 | vote | accept | Thomas Kojar | ||
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| May 20, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | @Poloni The SE version of OpenGarden will serve as the raw input of individual research problems. There each research post will be debated for clarity and also used for updates and approaches. This is already commonplace in MO where many posts are seeking updates on unsolved problems. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 11:54 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | It seems that proposal is already closed. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 8:40 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Why do you think the Stack Exchange Q&A format is suitable for this project? Personally I don't think it's the most appropriate one. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 4:29 | comment | added | fedja | @ChristianRemling "Needless to say, the real world is quite different, though" The real world is just what we make it. If we prefer some alternative rules of the game, we can just try to follow them and see if we can attract enough players or whether we can afford playing by them alone. I have some technical concerns, but I'll not voice them at this stage. Still, if we want to talk about the ABC conjecture and Navier-Stokes here, we'd better have some new ideas before posting them. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 4:07 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | "I am not sure if this fits at Meta-MO because we are not requesting any changes to MO" It's not MO either, since there doesn't seem to be a question, only a request (whether good or bad that's not really appropriate for MO). This is closer to meta than to MO-proper. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 3:49 | comment | added | YCor | These votes before migration to metaMO were not closing votes, but migration votes (SE accounts migration votes as closing votes, which is questionable). | |
| May 20, 2019 at 3:02 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 20, 2019 at 2:30 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 20, 2019 at 1:43 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | It will be parallel to it. The SE version will serve as a large database for the research problems out there and their corresponding approaches. The OpenGarden will be the more monitored and formal version to avoid the ambiguities from the SE version. The SE version will serve as the place for the raw input of research problems and approaches. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 1:40 | comment | added | Tadashi | How it would be different from Polymath? | |
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| May 20, 2019 at 0:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 19, 2019 at 23:58 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | I support this proposal. I tried to follow the link in it, filled my e-mail address but have not received the e-mail. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 23:48 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | Can someone explain the downvotes? What is going on? | |
| May 19, 2019 at 23:45 | history | migrated | from mathoverflow.net (revisions) | ||
| May 19, 2019 at 23:43 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | But we don't understand why they want to close this post. We need some exposure in the math research community to get the SE proposal going. Can someone explain this? | |
| May 19, 2019 at 23:42 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | That is a fair opinion and so one don't have to share her/his research problems and approaches if she/he don't want to. But many professors have backlogs of problems and ideas on attacking them that they or their graduate student will not solve in their lifetime. This will be a good compliment to the OpenGarden site where already many problems are shared. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 23:36 | comment | added | Christian Remling | This post assumes the (laudable) world view that we (= mathematicians) are all in this together, so we identify problems and projects, share them widely, and work on them. If you solve a problem today that I might have solved tomorrow, why, then so much the better. After all, it's just the math that matters. This seems indeed the only view of the whole enterprise that can be justified with a clear conscience. Needless to say, the real world is quite different, though. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 23:13 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | I see 3 votes to close. Any suggestions on improving this post? I will try to apply them. I think this post fits here because it requests the support of the math research community in creating a new SE site. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 22:44 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 19, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | Thomas Kojar | @YCor I was hoping to get some extra attention here because they require 60 followers for the next phases. Also, I am not sure if this fits at Meta-MO because we are not requesting any changes to MO, unless you had some ideas. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 22:41 | comment | added | YCor | Voted to migration on meta. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 22:00 | history | asked | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |