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Should We Make Reputation Score Invisible?
I am seeing the same pattern over and over:
The higher reputation the user has, the higher score his/her answer gets.
As if someone thinks “ah, this person has high rep, therefore, the answer must be ...
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Disabling comments from a certain user
Once I was really enjoying the Mathematica community. The answers were always quick and helpful, and I enjoyed answering myself.
But now, I am more and more discouraged from using the forum because ...
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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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Daily digests of Mathematica SE emails no longer arriving. How to get them back?
I used to get daily (or more frequent) email digests of recent questions. Somehow I must have accidentally unsubscribed from those.
Can anyone tell me how to get them back. I set up anew “Digest” on ...
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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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I can not see this screen shot
This is my question
I do not understand why, now I can not see this screen shot.
When I click the link, I get
How can I see screen shots?
PS. Now I can see all images.
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Unable to post LaTeX without code tags
I recently made a post on Mathematica stackexchange, that made extensive use of LaTeX: Find perspective projection matrix under constraints
However, upon trying to post the original post, it would ...
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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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Can I take points for bounty reputation for myself?
I've started bounty a few days ago with a question (300 points) , and none has answered or commented.
And today, it looks I am very close to the solution.
If I answer the question and adopt it as an ...
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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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Clarification of the rules of this part of StackExchange
I'm already part of https://math.stackexchange.com/ clarification regarding the rules of the questions in the part of https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ before asking any questions to avoid ...
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Why is this question not welcome?
The following question was recently closed:
Turn off keyboard shortcut
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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How can one best post a long answer to a Mathematica Stack Exchange Question?
In trying to help a user with a question (see 293958), I ran his code and after a relatively lengthy running time demonstrated that his code does indeed get an answer. However, the answer is quite a ...
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Question closed due to similar questions in the past but the existing answers do not solve my question (the toy model)
Given square matrices A and B, how to solve T obeys Transpose[T]. A . T = B?
I don't know who closed my question disregarding my comments multiple times in the bottom citing this
How to solve for $\...
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Cannot submit question with display math
As per title, it seems that it is not possible to submit a question in which display math (i.e. $$ ... $$) is present.
If you try to ask this question
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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Unable to post a question due to formatting issues
Why am I getting an error as follows for the post content (after the dashed line)
"Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 spaces ...
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SE Uploader started to fail. Unable to upload image to this site from notebook
In the last few days, I noticed the Pallette SE Uploader keeps giving a Java error each time I try to upload an image.
I select a cell and click on Image button then choose upload image to ...
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Can I ask about Mathics3 here?
I stumbled upon Mathics3, a free and open-source clone of Mathematica.
It seems to share most of the basic syntax/functions with Mathematica, though I assume some advanced features are not implemented....
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API, APIFunction, and interoperability
What's the difference between the tags api, apifunction, and interoperability? Do we need three distinct tags? Are there others that overlap some of these. Should some be merged?
I assume apifunction ...
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Trouble posting question to website (code formatting)
As you can see in the image, I am not able to post my question to the site, it being flagged for "code that is not properly formatted", even though my question contains no code at all, just ...
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is it ok to use the new LLMFunction in answering questions on this site?
I've just used the new LLMFunction (which will be part of 13.3) to answer a question here.
I assumed this is ok since this is part of Mathematica (now as Paclet, but soon builtin) but wanted to make ...
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What is the actual purpose of mathematica.stackexchange.com? [closed]
It seems to me that I have misunderstood mathematica.stackexchange.com's purposes. I understood two purposes: to teach and to learn. It seems to be a place for ignorant newcomers to Mathematica to ...
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Question regarding user etiquette in answers and comments
Update
Note the OP appears to have deleted the inciting comments.
I vote to close my own question but appreciate very much the comments to date.
Please see this question
In particular, refer to my ...
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How can I upload a video of my solution?
How do I post a video of an animation produced by code to the main site? Here's a minimal example:
Animate[Plot[Sin[x + t], {x, 0, 5}], {t, 0, 10, .01}]
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Looking for the appropriate syntax of a Fox H function
Working a problem on Mathematics Stack Exchange, in a comment fom @Maxim is given the expression that I am even unable to type properly with MathJax (I do not know why but a copy/paste does not ...
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First time poster, struggling to post code
I have been struggling for a half hour to post my question but always getting the same error:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 ...
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A question was closed as duplicate when it is only similar, not the same
How to get the centroid of a geographical region? (or: the center of mass of Croatia is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but where exactly?) was closed as duplicate. It is not. The alleged duplicate is ...
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How does one keep others down voting or deleting answers because they do fast answers to hard problem or answers at all to impossible problems>?
As I said in Fitting an exponential system: "Sometimes, a negative result (i.e., can not be fast or done at all) [needs to given] as the problem is constructed." (I editted my own sentence.)
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Bounty on a question with an unsatisfactory answer
I have just put a bounty on the question Floor function not returning correct value
I wrote there
The existing answer is not satisfactory, as explained in a comment.
I find this issue important. There ...
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Mostly no difference between before and after editing
After I upload a question, then some user (mostly high-level user) edit my question.
But many times I don't see any difference.
I wonder what they edited and why they edit it.
I don't have the ...
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Why was my question about WolframAlpha marked off topic
The original post can be found here: Get WolframAlpha to treat all symbols as variables
There is a tag specifically for WolframAlpha called wolfram-alpha-queries. If this doesn't belong here, to what ...
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Can the deleted post content still be viewed?
There was a question about how to draw this form of straight line x==ty+n, and a friend answered three different drawing methods. I'd like to see again that I haven't seen the post now.
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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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To discuss and potentially explicitly prohibit ChatGPT and other AI answers
Context: Informal ban already effective
Meta Stackoverflow and Meta Stackexchange has already been discussing a (temporary?) ban of answers crafted with ChatGPT (SO 421831, SE 384396).
Answers ...
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Mathematica Stackexchange editing toolbar [duplicate]
I have been away for a while, so I preface this question with an apology if it is trivial. In answering there used to be an add on/tool to that would allow Wolfram reference hyperlinks, automate ...
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Announcing upcoming (Wednesday November 30) R&D Q&A on symbolic calculus development
Devendra Kapadia and I are looking forward to hosting the “Q&A with Calculus & Algebra Developers" tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:00 CT. This follows the "What's new in Calculus & ...
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Strategies for lengthy answers and questions (like this one)
Concerning answers
TL;DR what : It would be interesting to have a template/format/guidelines for presenting lengthy answers.
TL;DR why : To increase the general quality of answers, to guide newcomers ...
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What is the purpose/intention/goal for closing a question
I imagine that this has been asked already but searching here on meta and on google I could not find the deep reasons to why someone votes to close a question. The stack exchange information on vote ...
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Is it possible to append a file to a question on mathematica stackexchange?
Is it possible to append a file to a question on https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
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New meta posts no longer appear in right side of main site
I remember the new mathematica.meta posts used to appear in right side of the main site, but now it's not the case:
↑ Who cares about this?
This makes the mathematica.meta site deserted.
Can the old ...
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