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HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

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Re: HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

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Post by nilkn »

markkm wrote: post #12

The research mathematics community on the internet is fairly small, and a lot of them are over at MathOverflow, math.SE, and personal blogs. What does this site offer that would lure people away from them?

I imagine the main differentiator would be open-ended discussion that's not necessarily trying to answer a well-defined question (or any question at all for that matter). Stack Exchange and MathOverflow are both fairly bad at supporting this at best and openly hostile towards it at worst.

Re: HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

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Post by meuk »

nilkn wrote: post #13
markkm wrote: post #12

The research mathematics community on the internet is fairly small, and a lot of them are over at MathOverflow, math.SE, and personal blogs. What does this site offer that would lure people away from them?

I imagine the main differentiator would be open-ended discussion that's not necessarily trying to answer a well-defined question (or any question at all for that matter). Stack Exchange and MathOverflow are both fairly bad at supporting this at best and openly hostile towards it at worst.

It's directly contradictory to their goal, since the goal is trying to answer well-defined questions.

Re: HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

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Post by vortico »

markkm wrote: post #12

The research mathematics community on the internet is fairly small, and a lot of them are over at MathOverflow, math.SE, and personal blogs. What does this site offer that would lure people away from them?

With a HN site, it's easier to see what's "hip" this month, which can be entertaining, educational, and makes good "casual" conversations. Mathematics has trends just like any other field, and unfortunately if you're not actively working at a university and going to conferences multiple times a year, you'll never get exposed to that.

Re: HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

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Post by explore »

whunting wrote: post #11
znpy wrote: post #9

Cool, how is it implemented ? Did you customize the news app from the arc repository or have you implemented it from scratch ?

PHP from total scratch, I'm actually thinking of open sourcing the project

That would be great, thank you! Cf. https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
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