I tried to register and the verification link from/for the mail gives me a 404.
Edit: Easy to fix. Replace http://metaoptimize.com/qa/qa/account/validate/ by http://metaoptimize.com/qa/account/validate/
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#22Earlier 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…
"Related Questions": tokenize => random hash/project (tokens) => TD-IDF => KD-tree lookup
"automatically infer tag": tokenize / shingle q&a, ORDER token+bigrams BY TF-IDF(token + bigrams)
In both cases a global IDF estimate can be held in memory using a Counting Bloom Filter (or a traditional solr index).
Re: Stack overflow knockoff for machine learning, NLP, AI, ...
#23Awesome! Really excited about this.. Stackoverflow hasn't been that great of a place to ask ML/IR/NLP questions and expect good answers Maybe this site will bring together all the ML people and do a better job. Visually, the site is not that great. The logo is unreadable at first attempt
I liked the logo, especially the Idea behind it, I think a darker color or thicker lines in the circles might help though
Or change your feature extractors :)
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#24Already 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…
Are data dumps available?
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#25I tried to register and the verification link from/for the mail gives me a 404. Edit: Easy to fix. Replace http://metaoptimize.com/qa/qa/account/validate/ by http://metaoptimize.com/qa/account/validate/
Tricky to fix, actually: http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-204
I am getting complaints that validation email links don't work (they have the subdir twice, as you mentioned), even though welcome email links work just fine.
This is weird because they both use the exact same link in the template:
forum/skins/default/templates/auth/welcome_email.html: {% trans "Validate my email address" %}
forum/skins/default/templates/auth/mail_validation.html: {% trans "Validate my email address" %}
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#26I tried to register and the verification link from/for the mail gives me a 404. Edit: Easy to fix. Replace http://metaoptimize.com/qa/qa/account/validate/ by http://metaoptimize.com/qa/account/validate/
Tricky to fix, actually: http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-204 I am getting complaints that validation email links don't work (they have the subdir twice, as you mentioned), even though welcome email links work just fine. This is weird because they both use the exact same link in the template: forum/skins/default/templates/auth/welcome_email.html: {% trans "Validate my email address" %} forum/skins/default/templates/a…
I'm not getting any emails, including the welcome one. It's not showing up in my spam folder in Gmail either.
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#27Do we have a reasonable measurement of an HN "weekend" now?
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#28Already 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…
How is is NOT a knock-off?
- The functionality of Q/A seems to be exactly the same - The visual design is almost indistinguishable from that of StackOverflow - The classification of questions (votes/answers/views with tags) is identical - The badges that users can earn is a blatant copy from SO - "First time here? Check out the FAQ!". Hmmm, where have I seen that before...? - etc.
There may be some examples where the derivative vs. knock-off classification is debatable, but here, for me, the answer is clear.
Please note that I'm not making a judgement on whether this is better or worse than SO, and I'm not making a judgement on the skills of the developers. Building something that clearly builds on someone else's work without any attribution that I could see, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Unless of course I don't know the whole story and SO ripped of someone else. I'm awaiting enlightenment...
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#29Jeff/Joel really buggered up. They did a bit of course direction and ended up even further off course. Oh well. The platform is important, but having the skills and personality required to build a bonza community are more important.
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