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Wei Zhong

11:02

@MartinSleziak i agree your answer to How to search on this site? would be a good entry point for new users. Also, my search engine gets down sometimes..

Martin Sleziak

@WeiZhong It seems that Xander Henderson edited that post a bit: math.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/33508/revisions

> In addition to the built-in searchbar (which has some more powerful options), you may also want to consider using the advice given in the question How to search on this site?. The math-aware search engine approach0 may also be useful.

Your last message seems rather pessimistic. :-(

Wei Zhong

great! your list should be definitely the first place for a general guidance.

i am more confident on the existence of MSE than betting on my side project :P sad but true.

Martin Sleziak

Well, I still do hope that A0 will survive for some time. I consider it to be very useful.

I suppose that none of the fundraising attempts (if that's the correct world) really worked. IIRC the one which was mentioned mods recently was some kind of sponsorship via github?

Wei Zhong

thank you, i am doing a CS degree with it, so as long as i do not quit, it will exist for one or two years at least.

Martin Sleziak

Jun 1 '20 at 5:39, by Wei Zhong

My Github sponsor account is just approved, here is my sponsor page: https://github.com/sponsors/t-k- Note that you may need to register a Gihub account to pay any amount. Also, Github sponsorship accepts paypal and credit cards, however, be aware that it is monthly subscription.

Wei Zhong

11:09

it is ok @MartinSleziak, fundraising is not my focus right now.

my research is paid, and i am improving the software, it is fun. I will appreciate the time i spend on it.

later if i am working on something else. I am sure i am going to open source everything and people can host it their own version. It is not going to be wasted i promise.

recently there are more research groups showing up in math-aware retrieval, and a new retrieval competition ARQMath is hosted by my prev advisor (i am also participating this year), i think more tools will come out, the system is going to be better and better.

Martin Sleziak

cs.rit.edu/~dprl/ARQMath

Wei Zhong

right, fun fact, i suggested to use MSE as a dataset for research. ARQMath means Answer Retrieval for Questions on Math.

this year questions actually sample posts from MSE during 2020 year.

you can view the complete HTML questions here: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/…

Martin Sleziak

11:39

I will have to go. Have a nice day!

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Wei Zhong

13:26