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Chatgpt and similar chat bots are trained using CV content. Did we agree to it?
When we started contributing to CV we did not foresee the content would be used to train chat bots and that chat bots would be as profitable as they are.
Did we consent to the content to be used to ...
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wald-estimator tag: What is it?
What is Wald estimator? the tag wald-estimator has no wiki and unclear use, is it just a synonym for wald test, or something else? (some of the use should be retagged to wald-test.)
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Effect of actions done in protest to the SE company on site analytics
It's now been almost 6 months since the community has become widely aware of practices by the greater StackExchange company which a lot of people have disagreed with.
There has been a lot of ...
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Irregular voting patterns
Without calling anyone out, I suspected someone of downvoting other answers than their own just to have theirs appear higher/attract more upvotes. However, I wasn't sure how to report this and more ...
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Canonical duplicate for "Why do predictions vary less than observations?"
Two recent questions:
Regression - variance of predictions much lower than variance of target, which I voted to close as a duplicate of
Regression predictions show far less variance than expected
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Improve closure-to-migrate voting
We often get questions that focus on how to do something using R (or Python, rarely SAS, MS Excel or others), with little to no statistical content. Such questions are off-topic and should be closed.
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Improving [mathematical-statistics] tag excerpt
I've noticed a lot of questions with the mathematical-statistics tag where it clearly doesn't belong. I think this happens because naive users think all statistics is mathematical statistics.
The ...
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Mathematics Educators Stackexchange and its relationship to statistics
Stackexchange recently opened up a new site, matheducators.stackexchange.com, for public beta.
It is a site for math teachers to discuss how to be better teachers.
There have already been a few ...
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Do we have a canonical Q&A for deriving KL divergence for two Gaussians?
The question of deriving the KL divergence of two Gaussians appears frequently. It arises especially often in the context of variational auto-encoders, because the essential paper on the topic by ...
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Dear mods, what should be our protocol for tag burnination?
There is this Meta thread: Tag-candidates for removal. During the last three six months, it collected 8 answers with up to +12 upvotes. However, not a single action has so far been taken.
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American Statistical Association Government Statistics Section Data Challenge
This is an announcement rather than a discussion entry. Stuff like that is definitely off-topic on the main site, and while I have reservations regarding the Meta, either, I'd still like to post this ...
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Stack Exchange Fellowship and Grant Program: Looking for reviewers to assess thesis proposals
Stack Exchange will be introducing a Fellowship Program awarding grants for original and independent research projects. Undergraduate Honors Theses, Independent Study Projects, Masters Theses, and ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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What do I do if I have a bounty active, the answer is from an inactive user, but is mostly right minus a major edit?
I currently have a bounty active for When was the word "bias" coined to mean $\mathbb{E}[\hat{\theta}-\theta]$?.
The answer is correct, except the article that is cited is wrong, as it can ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election
The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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