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computer contest problems
The question Proof of correctness for the greedy solution of uva10249 The Grand Dinner is presently on hold. It is definitely not self contained, so I understand it needs editing.
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Migrating unanswered theory questions to cstheory.SE
cstheory.SE has a strict research-level scope and occasionally migrates non research-level questions to CS.SE. The two sites also share parts of their user base; as one of those shared members (who is ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Code blocks add extra backslash, if followed by a dollar sign
If you type the characters for "backslash dollar" inside a code block, extra backslashes are displayed. Worse, the rendered output doesn't match the preview. See the example below:
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How long is the beta period?
I'm wondering how long typically the private beta period will last? I could not find info on the cs.SE/FAQ (or maybe I missed it).
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Tags around partitions
Currently, we have tags
partition,
partitions and
partition-problem.
The tags seem to be used a little arbitrarily, and the former two should probably be synonyms. There are no descriptions helping ...
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tags: grammars vs formal-grammars
We have two tags at the moment which seem to be the same topic. I think we should make one the synonym for the other. So my suggestion is to merge formal-grammars into grammars.
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Online design/rendering of graphs and illustrations in your posts?
How do you design and manage graphs and illustrations in your posts, that cannot be done by mathjax?
For example, for graphs, I have begun using Erdos (demo), an interface to Google Charts API for ...
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Deleting questions with upvoted answers
Gilles has deleted a closed questions with +20 total vote and answers with similarly number of upvotes. I suggest the following polciy:
Moderators should not unilaterally delete closed questions:
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What kinds of computer engineering do we consider computer science enough to be on topic here?
We've had several discussions about where to draw the line between mathematics and computer science, but I think we have put less thought into where to draw the line between computer engineering and ...
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Should we merge check-my-proof and check-my-algorithm?
Should we merge check-my-proof and check-my-algorithm into a new tag check-my-answer?
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Do we need both cluster and clustering tags?
We have both a cluster and clustering tag. There is no tag wiki with guidance for either of them.
Do we need both tags? If we do, how should we choose which one to use on any particular question?
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Why can actual code not be pseudo-code
In my answer to the question Determine missing number in data stream I have a comment which indicates C++ is not a valid form of pseudo-code. Lacking a formal definition of what pseudo-code actually ...
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Button color in chat provides no contrast
The buttons in chat are colored so that
they are hardly visible over the background and
the logo is hardly visible on the button(s).
A point can be made for solving 1) by using the b/w version of ...
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Insufficient nominees for moderator election: What happens next?
Stack Exchange’s position is that every site has a team of moderators to operate in our network. Currently, this community is being moderated by D.W., Discrete Lizard, and Raphael, who have been doing ...
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What is the difference between the tags natural-lang-processing and computational-linguistics?
What is the difference between the tags natural-lang-processing and computational-linguistics?
Both tags are used, but it seems to me they should be synonymous. The natural-lang-processing tag wiki ...
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Tags: network-flow, max-flow
I noticed we have tags for both network-flow and max-flow. Does that make sense? Is there any distinction?
There seem to be only 2 questions tagged with max-flow. Should we make max-flow a synonym ...
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What is appropriate is mysterious
I recently posted this question on cs.stackexchange.com. In the question, I am essentially asking about whether anyone can point me towards references on ARM programming. It was closed as off-topic ...
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Tags efficiency and performance
Is there a significant difference between the tags performance and efficiency (which we should document then), or are they synonyms?
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Questions more suitable for "Computational Science" instead of "Computer Science"
I noticed that there are quite some "simple" questions with the tag "numerical-analysis" or "linear-algebra", which haven got a "good" answer so far. Of course, I could try to write good answers to ...
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Whats on-topic on CS.SE?
I was trying to see which site was most suitable to my question between TCS, CS and CompSci when I glanced at the on-topic list. Surprisingly, the list appears to be a little empty. Any chance it ...
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About the tag `graph`
There currently is a tag graph. I wanted to change it to graphs because most of our tags use the plural, but it would not let me (supposedly because the tags are ...
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MathJax rendering changes scrolling position
When I follow a link to an answer (e.g. my answer here), the page is scrolled to the correct position. But then MathJax renders all the formulas, thus shifting content around, at which point the ...
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What is the point of the check-my-proof tag? [duplicate]
I don't understand the check-my-proof tag (added here). It seems to be about the form of the question, rather than the topic. It doesn't work as the sole tag on a question, and it is fairly subjective ...
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2022: 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 ...
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Are questions regarding reference material considered off topic?
Title states the issue. Specifically, I'm looking for a bit of material on a topic of computer science and practical application of the principle.
I'm not looking for code, but I am interested in ...
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What is a reference question?
What is a reference-question? These are my concerns to tag one question as a reference:
Question is about fundamental problem, e.g How does computer program works?
Question contains information that ...
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Policy on "easy" programming questions
This is somewhat related to this discussion, but different enough to deserve its own thread, I think.
What would be the site policy regarding questions that are generally considered "easy", but may ...
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There are two questions that are both attempt to prove that P=NP, but one got 2 upvotes and the other got -4 downvotes. Why?
This question is an attempt to prove P=NP.
This question is also an attempt to prove P=NP.
The first question got 2 upvotes, it is not closed, even not on hold and not considered off-topic. It also ...
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Which questions can be tagged with "algorithms" tag?
There are two views:
Each question in computer science belongs to an area of computer science. Algorithms is one of the main areas, therefore questions in this area (including question which may not ...
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Questions asking for materials or links
I believe that reading vintage codes or codes or papers where some idea was introduced for the first time will expose the concept in its simplest form and hence will lead to clearer and deeper ...
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Emphasis in comments is no longer italic [closed]
With the recent style upgrade, *...* emphasis (italics) in comments are now broken:
The HTML is fine:
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Usage of Community-wiki
In some other communities, there have been discussions about the use of the "Community wiki"-function. The policies seem to differ from site to site, so before it comes to any problems here about what ...
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Duplicate on other SE site
It turns out that this question
What is tail recursion?
has an answer at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33923/what-is-tail-recursion
It is not possible to vote for closing as exact duplicate,...
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The scheduling tag
The tag scheduling currently has 4 questions, all of which are about schedulers in multitasking operating systems. While this is technically a special case of scheduling algorithms, topics in ...
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We need more people actively using the edit queue
How is it that this Hot Network Question with 1000 views has survived so long with this typo in the title?
I tried fixing it but can't make an edit until the edit queue on the question is cleared. A ...
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Voting arrow colors are extremely low contrast
I have a lot of difficulty telling whether or not I have selected a vote on CS stack exchange. The difficult is probably magnified by color blindness (Deuteranomaly, affects 5% of men).
It's hard to ...
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The computer-architecture tag
What is the computer-architecture tag about?
I would use it for questions about designing a processor or other electronic circuit, and possibly for questions about the semantics of machine ...
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tags: education/didactics vs learning/teaching
I was confused a bit by education and didactics. Mainly, I guess, since I thought didactics is part of education.
Would it be better to change those tags to learning-cs and teaching-cs respectively? ...
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Should we bring back the "not a real question" closing reason?
After my recent discussion starter (Towards a policy for hint-only answers) and some chat conversations, I think that the biggest problem we have with questions now is if they don't contain a (real) ...
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Is it possible to block reputation increments
Is it possible to block a user's reputation increase when he is upvoted, or on any other event? On what basis could it be done and by whom?
I searched info on this without success.
I understand from ...
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Best way to get my work on the halting problem critiqued?
I have some ideas on the halting problem.
How can I best get feedback on them?
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Unreasonable censorship
I posted two basic comp sci questions to get advice on how to approach the problem. I wasn't look for a definitive solution. I provided
An approach
Context
A problem
My attempt
I would appreciate ...
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