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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
I think that given the sort of turmoil experienced of late at Stack Exchange, it might be wise for us here at MO to take certain measures to reinforce our status as an entity independent from Stack ...
Tim CampionMod
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Are edits performed by external, non-SE robots allowed?
Just to give some background on this project: it's indeed something I'm doing on my own, independent of Stack Exchange. There are more independent 'volunteer' projects around the Stack Exchange ...
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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
New Answer:
Upon reflection, Emilio is 100% correct: We need to sound the alarm bells. Here's a link again to Emilio's well-thought-out answer on the main meta site explaining this, which is probably ...
Tim CampionMod
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Prosus' acquisition and its effect on MathOverflow
Here is what Joel Spolsky had to say about the effects on Stack Overflow:
Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Prosus is an investment and holding company, which ...
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What is MathOverflow's "agreement" with Stack Exchange?
Suggested in comments but I don't know if this is allowed. In any case: I've used an OCR program to copy the contents of the 2.5 pages below. I've used some minimal editing to keep the format vaguely ...
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Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
The purpose of MathOverflow is to serve as a resource for professional mathematicians. If we allowed questions of any level, the vast majority of questions would be low-level questions (as is the ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Personally, I find it less usable than the status quo, but better than the new editor proposed by SE. So if it is inevitable that we will have to settle for an inferior alternative in future, this is ...
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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
Here is one option put forward by the SE developers: switching from MathJax to prosemirror-math. For a quick look at how it works, I'll just pull this from their readme:
Examples
Unlike other editors,...
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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
The answer to
Will the CoC apply here, when it is finally sorted out?
seems to be "there is no 'will' and 'finally'". The blog entry posted on october 10th shows (some?) of the controversial ...
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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
There are very few MathOverflow posts in which anyone might feel a need to use a third person pronoun. If such a situation arose, it is most likely that the writer would naturally use a pronoun that ...
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Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
I think what my new downvoting friends were trying to say, is that there exists a stackexchange site for non-research MATH questions here:
https://math.stackexchange.com/
I was not aware that this ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Let me start with a positive:
AMScd diagrams are supported! It seems I don't even need to explicitly include a \require{AMScd} command (at any rate, when I did, ...
Tim CampionMod
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"Scope" of being blocked from asking
The FAQ post "What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?" contains the following paragraph:
Will a ban on one Stack Exchange site affect my ...
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
Codidact was born of a previous mass exodus from SE and has some experience with migrating data from SE to their software platform, QPixel.
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Numerical Analysis - SO Vs MO
If you have questions concerning na.numerical-analysis, you should really try to ask it at Computational Science. The top users there are nearly all tenured professors, or at least active researchers ...
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How much is MathOverflow exposed to recent events on StackExchange?
It is more likely a question for StackExchange Community Managers than for moderators. I believe the moderators can provide an interesting but non definitive perspective. If the comment linked in ...
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Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
The last question "Why is the stackexchange mathematics community against simple/googleable questions, while the stackexchange software community is not?" has not been answered, and it can be answered....
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Numerical Analysis - SO Vs MO
There are some StackExchange sites that seem relevant here:
MathOverflow
Computational science
StackOverflow
Mathematics
For others, see quid's answer or browse through the list of SE sites.
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"Scope" of being blocked from asking
This refers to the so-called question ban and it's per site; your questions on MathOverflow do not influence your ability to ask questions on other Stack Exchange sites. Not even Meta MathOverflow; it'...
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
PhysicsOverflow has a setup that's reasonably close to MO. It runs on the Question2Answer software. It was in part set up a kind of exodus from physics.stackexchange
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
I would expect the database to be in a form similar to the existing periodic data dumps at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange (not that I have any idea what those ...
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Privacy of software-generated links to questions and answers
An overwhelming majority of those who participated in the poll are in favor
of modifying the existing system for obtaining links to answers.
How does one proceed from here? Shall we put in a request ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
It would be better if there was a way to toggle the rich-text preview.
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Personally, I was quite happy with it. I retyped various fragments of my recent answers and found the workflow to be quite natural. I didn't try it on mobile, but I find the current system to be ...
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