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by hkol3
2671 days ago
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This is possibly why Jeff Atwood went off and made Discourse. If the StackExchange sites provide an allied discussion forum where I can specify what level of users I want posting on my thread that would be great. Where level can be verified grad/phd in subject X or anyone who has more than N accepted answers in subject X... Come on CS folk make it happen. Right now I have to wander around labs and conferences to find the right people and have these discussions. A gigantic waste of time when most of these folk hang out on MathOverflow but can't have these disccusions. Most of the progress in science came through 2-3 people finding and corresponding with each other. Here we are at a moment in time, where we don't need to find just 2-3 people. We can find ever single one whether they are sitting in Cambridge or Congo and lay out a subject before them and yet we haven't got that to work right. |
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I think if you asked most academics their opinion on this (in math/CS at least), they'd tell you they think the system works fine. They don't really have problems collaborating - their universities send them to conferences where they meet people working in the same (narrow) subfield as them.