@Jeff Congrats!! Yeah, I need to get back into a neuro groove
I keep saying that and I get further away from it. I got off track and then I started a job in November, so I have been devoid of actual time for the site. I'm glad that you've taken the reins and injected some passion into it
(and renewed the fight with some older battles like site name, etc.)
I've been systematically going through old unanswered posts and flagging any that aren't answerable. There seem to be a lot of borderline posts where the post is not amenable to interpretation as-is, but could be, except the post is old and the poster hasn't been seen for months. This seems to dr...
Since us mods might end up close voting some of these on our own, I feel it's important to be very transparent about it. Feel free to raise concerns if some of them don't deserve to be closed. Perhaps if this thread gets active we might also just update this answer instead of using flagging, so e...
@StevenJeuris There seem to be a number of questions which don't technically violate the guidelines, but which are long-term inactive and don't seem likely to ever be answered in the affirmative but do not accommodate a response in the negative (multi-pronged questions, some "X or Y" questions, etc.) What is policy on those?
Other than "X or Y" questions, some questions seem to request "The best X" or "Evidence for X." When there is then in actuality little evidence either for or against X, or for a best X, those questions seem to attract a long series of comments rather than answers.
@ChristianHummeluhr You knowing about cutting edge research from which can be concluded that given that that is 'the latest' they are nowhere near answering the posed question yet.
@ChristianHummeluhr We don't have a community policy on these kinds of questions yet. A Meta question should be started, but this is exactly one of those many issues you'll find the community will fail to come to any great consensus on at this point, because of our size
I am leaning towards closing most of these for now, but, I'd like to see a time when we don't have to aggressively close questions like this, where we have enough users that some of these questions are OK, and eventually do get answers. But as is, they're not helping the site.
@ChristianHummeluhr Nice answers! :p Short concise, to the point. I like that style. :)
Not that I dislike Jeromy's big long answers, ... but I often feel long answers on short questions wastes too much time/effort which could be spent on better questions. :)
Either way .. at this rate you'll be able to vote to close by the end of the day.
@Steven Thanks, and agreed. And hah, yeah, I actually just realized the same thing.
I think it's best to reserve long answers for research-level questions, where a lot of context and qualification is helpful. For higher level questions, I think too much context and qualification can be kind of a hindrance.
Since us mods might end up close voting some of these on our own, I feel it's important to be very transparent about it. Feel free to raise concerns if some of them don't deserve to be closed. Perhaps if this thread gets active we might also just update this answer instead of using flagging, so e...
Glossed over all of them, closed two more.
The remaining others I personally don't feel warrant closing.
@ChristianHummeluhr I can't fully judge about that since I don't fully understand what the question is about. :) I can only glance at the content and make a judgement based on effort, scope, etc ...
But couldn't someone that encounters a similar problem end up on that question through google?
Then after possibly solving it, answering it?
If not ... it might be too localized.
But the way I interpreted it this is something others might need help with as well.
Although a great question, I decided to close it as too localized, taking into account the feedback given by @OfriRaviv, and the fact that the OP didn't follow up on it. If somebody in the future faces a similar problem, you can do a suggested edit/edit on the question to attract attention to it again. — Steven Jeuris18 secs ago
Upvote that comment, so people can read it that end up on it. :)
I really would like to be able to do custom close messages.
In scenarios like this.
Why use a generic close message if I could leave behind a detailed close message which now is hidden in a long comment thread which is too useful to delete.
yup. it definitely helps to be liberal with the close/flags too... i think i made a dent in the unanswered questions a couple months ago, but then started to stack off a bit
@ChristianHummeluhr also in reference to the question you asked earlier, i posted this on meta a few months ago, i think #3 is pertinent
i don't follow my own advice often enough though, because i really don't like answering questions like that... it's sort of tedious to just summarize the literature
Well, the post, not that summarizing the literature is necessarily tedious. It's not that often I read something which isn't somehow related to either WM or Bayesian methods, so I think it's kind of nice to stretch the intellectual legs a bit.
One shouldn't get too comfortable within one's subfield, I think, and there's a pretty strong tendency for a lot of people to do just that. ;)
So he is! I'm also a fan of Niels' work. I don't have too much to do with AI, but he works a lot with Hedderik van Rijn from my department, and skill acquisition is a major interest for me, so I try to keep up with what he's doing.
I'm writing a little article and need any information about how human vision works and latest
technologies and discoveries around. Actually its not a professional article. Its for a group of my friends.
In fact I'm looking for any possible way to make someone ACTUALLY see when their eyes are cl...
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