{"id":4482,"date":"2010-08-27T05:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2010-08-26T19:07:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:07:21","slug":"overflow-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=4482","title":{"rendered":"Overflow overflow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten days ago,\u00a0 a theoretical computer science community Q&A site<\/a> went beta and seems to be generating a fair amount of activity<\/a>. I’m a big fan of MathOverflow<\/a>, and am delighted to see a similar site springing up for a different field.<\/p>\n

Thirty-nine days ago,\u00a0 a new mathematics site<\/a> went beta, which initially puzzled me since the mathematics community already has the highly successful MathOverflow site. The difference appears to be <\/a>that MathOverflow is specifically for research mathematics whereas the new site aims to be broader, allowing more elementary questions.<\/p>\n

Overall, I think a proliferation of such sites is great, but it is also confusing. It isn’t always clear when a question is research level or not. There are questions tagged algebra<\/a><\/em> or topology<\/a><\/em> on the CS theory site that are pure mathematics questions. There’s a question<\/a> tagged\u00a0 graph theory<\/em> that had been posted previously to MathOverflow. I am delighted to see that both cs.cr.crypto-security<\/a> and quantum computing<\/a> already are populated with a few questions, but similar questions in these areas received good answers on MathOverflow. It would be a shame if the proliferation of sites lead to less interaction between fields rather than more. I’ll be curious to see how the usage patterns play out over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten days ago,\u00a0 a theoretical computer science community Q&A site went beta and seems to be generating a fair amount of activity. I’m a big fan of MathOverflow, and am delighted to see a similar site springing up for a different field. Thirty-nine days ago,\u00a0 a new mathematics site went beta, which initially puzzled me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,147,48,109,58],"tags":[254,253],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}