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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your email validation links appear to be broken -- I keep getting a 404 when I click mine.
Sorry about that. I will contact the OSQA developers upstream. The software wasn't designed to work out of a subdir, so we're still ironing issues out on that front. [edit: This happens for reasons that neither I nor the core devs understand: http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-204 ]
Yeah, there's an extra /qa/ in the URL. Removing that works.
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#13This is being referred to as a knockoff, I assumed this was actually based on stack exchange. Can someone clarify?
Joel & Jeff are selectively rolling out new StackExchange sites.
The selection process for new sites is community-driven:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/
. . . but it looks like a stats site is close to being a reality:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/33/statistical-ana...
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#14Already the site has its first scoop! Question: What little-known non-convex optimization trick has been used in most Berkeley NLP papers since 2006? Answer: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/14/what-are-the-state-o... I am the person that built this site. I wasn't planning on announcing the site yet, until I disseminated it more widely in academic circles, because I wanted to establish a core highly technical use…
Really thank you for that. I was trying to use quora for this purpose, but it's not specific enough. As a machine learning phd student from somewhere far from most good research centers (I'm in brazil, and how many brazillian ML papers have you seen in NIPS/ICML recently?), I struggle a lot with this folk wisdom. Most professors around here haven't really interacted enough with the international ML community to be up to date, and I often find myself recommending papers to my advisor and his peers. This can save me a lot of wasted time and effort; more than once I have spent a couple of months trying to solve a subproblem of an idea I had only to find out it is (a) trivial or (b) impossible with the current state of the art, and being able to find which of these is true in a couple of days does wonders.
I'm trying to disseminate this site to my peers and professors, to see if it will help people around.
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#17This is being referred to as a knockoff, I assumed this was actually based on stack exchange. Can someone clarify?
Joel & Jeff are selectively rolling out new StackExchange sites. The selection process for new sites is community-driven: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ . . . but it looks like a stats site is close to being a reality: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/33/statistical-ana...
There are several problems with that approach:
As Chris Manning (Stanford NLP professor) says, Area 51 hasn't gotten any buy-in from the academic community. I have focused on getting academia to be the immediate core of the community, so that the quality of Q+A is high. I am able to do this because of my academic connections.
They are fragmenting the Q+A sites into four: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/33/statistical-ana... http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607/artificial-in... http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2761/natural-langu... http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7607/machine-learn...
The last thing we need is NLP and ML people communicating less. That's why my site encompasses all of these proposals, as well as adjacent fields. As we've learned from StackOverflow, having one site for a broad topic leads to cross-polination of ideas between groups who don't normally communicate.
Most importantly, OSQA (which powers my site) is an open platform, built on Django+Python. That comes with all the benefits of open software. In particular, because the site is open-source, I can experiment with adding NLP to it. I can improve the Related Questions, I can automatically infer tags, and I can implement techniques for helping you organize and navigate information.
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#18Very unfair to call it a knockoff, its waaaay more than that. The OSQA project is awesome, and rick & heranin (devs) are great guys, and always looking for more help. My ex-SE site will be using osqa, or is :) , and I will soon make the final migration soon. If you're local to SF, visit SF Answers! Good job bravura - debug
I didn't mean "knockoff" to be disparaging, just that the design and functionality are very similar.
Re: Stack overflow knockoff for machine learning, NLP, AI, ...
#19Very unfair to call it a knockoff, its waaaay more than that. The OSQA project is awesome, and rick & heranin (devs) are great guys, and always looking for more help. My ex-SE site will be using osqa, or is :) , and I will soon make the final migration soon. If you're local to SF, visit SF Answers! Good job bravura - debug
I didn't mean "knockoff" to be disparaging, just that the design and functionality are very similar.
ok, thanks for the clarification :)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Joel & Jeff are selectively rolling out new StackExchange sites. The selection process for new sites is community-driven: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ . . . but it looks like a stats site is close to being a reality: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/33/statistical-ana...
There are several problems with that approach: As Chris Manning (Stanford NLP professor) says, Area 51 hasn't gotten any buy-in from the academic community. I have focused on getting academia to be the immediate core of the community, so that the quality of Q+A is high. I am able to do this because of my academic connections. They are fragmenting the Q+A sites into four: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/33/s…
and...you wont get shutdown :)