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Should we make [deep-learning] tag a synonym for [neural-networks]?
I'm in favor of the merger.
Any questions which are specifically about deep neural networks, in contrast to neural networks in general, can be described as such in the text.
One motivation for the ...
SycoraxMod
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Is "data-preprocessing" on topic for CV?
It is on-topic. Because every comment so far could be an interesting answer to this question I am pasting them here:
Nick Cox:
The tag or term data-preprocessing isn't universal across statistical ...
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Fix a typo in [restricted-boltzman-machine] (RBM) tag
Done.
There's supposed to be a mechanism for users to propose tag synonyms, but it is rarely invoked and never works because it requires (as I recall) five votes for approval and there's no queue to ...
whuberMod
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Increasing reputation needed for creating tags?
I think us going towards a higher threshold is reasonable. In a way, CV.SE is a mature site/community anyway so the "obvious" tags are by and large covered. Bringing our threshold in line ...
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Too many boosting tags
After some discussion in the comments above, the emerging consensus seems to be:
Map gradient-boosted-trees and gbm to boosting as synonyms.
Leave adaboost and xgboost alone.
This plan looks good to ...
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What is deep-rl?
Make deep-rl a synonym of reinforcement-learning. If users want to emphasize that their network is "deep," they have the option to add deep-learning.
SycoraxMod
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When is traffic slow on CrossValidated?
Based on number of posts:
Time of day: Looks like 3:00-7:00 (all times are UTC) is half as busy as 14:00-18:00
day of week: Saturday is the least busy day, followed by Sunday
combined: 6:00-7:00 ...
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Tag proposal: [cronbachs-alpha]
Create the tag, don't mass-retag - retag slowly, one question at a time, not too many all at once, so we don't bump-flood the landing page.
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Understanding the use of the [science] tag
There are only 14 threads tagged with science. I looked through them and I don't see anything in common among these threads. It appears to me that this tag (that, by the way, exists since 2010) is ...
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Tag proposal: [phylogeny]
This seems fine to me.
Here are a couple of points:
When you create the tag, be sure to create a tag wiki excerpt that states what it stands for, and provides some guidance on how to use the tag. ...
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Do we need both [forecasting] and [prediction] tags?
Yes, we need both. I think forecasting is more specifically about time-series data -- "What happens next?" Prediction the task of deploying a model to assess unseen data in some way. With prediction, ...
SycoraxMod
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Weights and everything weighted
Usage of "weights": regression coefficients
Regression coefficients are referred to as "regression weights" in some literatures. I personally find this confusing, and would like to steer the site ...
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Is it useful to have separate tags for lme4, lmer, glmer, nlmer, nlme, and lme?
Yes, mapping the function to the packages is a good idea. Maybe we should make all of them as synonyms to [lme4-nlme] ? This is the simplest choice and anyone ...
TimMod
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The *learning tags
The learning tag is in the process of being removed, see the answer in Understanding the use of the [education] tag.
I wrote wiki excerpts to q-learning and transfer-learning. The former is IMHO a ...
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Tags around categorical data coding / representation
Update (26 Oct 2017): Master tag categorical-encoding has been created, and has the following three synonyms: [dummy-variables], ...
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What's the tag "empirical" meant to convey?
Given the ambiguity of empirical, I propose we get an [empirical-bayes] tag, and then we can retag all those questions pertaining the subject (which I volunteer to ...
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Should the default tag synonyms be in the full form or abbreviated?
Let the users decide in each case.
When creating synonyms, I have always chosen as the "target" (which is the name that will be displayed) the one most commonly used on the site.
The advantages of ...
whuberMod
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Should we make [deep-learning] tag a synonym for [neural-networks]?
In favor.
Looking at the recent questions with these tags, there seems to be no pattern which get tagged neural-networks, which get deep-learning, and which get both. On the other hand, there are ...
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Let's merge/synonymize `arch` and `garch` tags
Could arch-garch become the replacing tag? The two abbreviations are often present together in lecture titles:
ARCH/GARCH Models
GARCH 101: An Introduction to the ...
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Can we delete the dplyr tag?
The two questions by tomclark seem to be on topic -- "What is the best way to test if the number of Males in group 1 is significantly greater than group 2, which is 0?" is clearly a statistical ...
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Should we create a [regression-discontinuity] tag?
I don't see why not. That is a perfectly valid topic. We have other, similar tags for methods used to infer causality from observational data, including:
causality (387 threads)
granger-...
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Shall we get rid of the [type-ii-errors] tag?
This seems pretty reasonable. I suggest either:
I just make [type-ii-errors] a synonym of [type-i-errors] and merge them, or ...
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Should we have a tag for the coupon collector's problem?
Yes. If something deserves an article in Wikipedia, it deserves a tag too.
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Weights and everything weighted
The weights tag
It is too generic, and should be killed.
Upvote: agree, this is too ambiguous; this needs to be cleaned, and further use is discouraged/limited
Downvote: keep it generic
Comment: ...
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When re-tagging old threads, how many should one do at once?
Do not re-tag more than 5 old threads at a time.
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Is [tikhonov-regularization] really a synonym for [ridge regression]?
I feel responsible because it was me who suggested this synonym; the suggestion got several upvotes and was implemented in February (the respective answer is deleted so one needs 10k rep to see it).
...
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Should we have [birthday-paradox] tag?
Since there is no answers and not much comments, while the question and pro-tag comments received several up-votes I would consider creating the tag. Let's wait for few more days if anyone disagrees (...
TimMod
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What is the exact meaning of the [self-study] tag? Should we consider renaming it?
Keep current tag.
self-study
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What is the exact meaning of the [self-study] tag? Should we consider renaming it?
Keep current tag, but, create synonym tag
textbook-problem
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