I think the answer is "yes". To the user asking a question, closing it feels like a very hostile action and makes the site seem unfriendly and not welcoming. My feeling is that marginal questions should not be closed explicitly, but should simply remain open but voted to an appropriate score (i...

As you might know sites remain in private beta for three weeks: We've extended the private betas to last about three weeks total. Usually new communities are concerned that we didn't give them enough time. And I think in this three weeks, the core users should try their best to enrich th...

I'm seeing a lot of answers from people along the lines of "AI is just bits and bytes and ultimately cannot be smarter than its creator because its creator would have to use their brain to make something smarter than themselves, which isn't possible." It's kind of baffling to me to see these ans...

I was clicking around and wanted to post a question. Started doing research to be able to ask an interesting one that I have in mind, and, well: Avoid “easy” questions It’s tempting to start with easy, superficial questions: surveys, polls, and rudimentary questions like “what are some g...

The latter is the canonical way to refer to the field, and its unclear when, if ever, [deep-network] would be preferable. Its a small change, but it'd help avoid very odd sounding questions like "What is Deep Network?"

During the private beta we have the opportunity to send Emails via stack exchange: And because stackexchange is already well-known on the net, it is more probable that our invitation will be read and clicked on. And I don't think there would be any academic mail server which rejects mail sent by...

SemWeb is a broad topic, obviously, but there are definitely elements of AI involved. Generally speaking, should we welcome SemWeb questions?

I asked a question that was meant to discuss artificial intelligence in general. I tagged it [artificial-intelligence], and someone fairly pointed out that that's redundant. I changed it to [agi], because the question referred specifically to how [optimization] applies to artificial intelligence,...

Apparently, we cannot flag a question as belonging to other network during beta: What is the recommended way to go in these situations?

From what I've seen so far, most of the questions on the site currently seem to be either about AI in general or about common techniques and algorithms. What about more specialized topics? Can people ask questions about e.g. the basic principles of computer vision or speech recognition? Both of...

I was going to answer a question about reinforcement learning and wanted to show some formulas using the same notation I use on CrossValidated, for instance: $r_{t+1}+\gamma \max_a Q(s_{t+1},a)$ But it is currently not supported, at least the way I tried it. Can we have support for LaTeX format...

We have a chatroom. At the moment it doesn't really have a name. Other sites' chatroom names include: Super User's "Root Access" PPCG's "The Nineteenth Byte" Blender's "The Renderfarm" Pets' "The Litterbox" Travel's "You Are Here" Aviation's "The Hangar" So, what should we call ours? While w...

A core goal of the private beta is to generate high-quality content that will attract experts. We are also given the opportunity to invite experts by email to the private beta. My question is simple: exactly what kind of experts are we trying to attract? According to this question , data scienc...