Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
267
questions
20
votes
1
answer
212
views
New Site Design Live!
Congratulations! As you can see, the new site design is live. Thank you for your feedback here and here. As you can see, I updated the color scheme to blue/green. I also explored a few alternatives ...
- 101
18
votes
0
answers
253
views
Congratulations! Signal Processing is graduating!
It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Signal Processing met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team ...
- 101
15
votes
2
answers
238
views
First up: What to call this site
This site is currently titled "Signal Processing" with a URL of "dsp.stackexchange.com".
You are the domain experts. Does that ^^^ sound reasonable?
The name and URL was chosen because they seemed ...
- 101
15
votes
4
answers
431
views
Design for Signal Processing Stack Exchange
I'm Stéphane, a senior product designer at Stack Exchange. This community went through the first phase of graduation back in Sep. 2015 and now we're ready to give you the second phase; a unique ...
- 101
14
votes
6
answers
533
views
Stack Exchange Signal processing in the real life: meeting contributors
[On meeting "Stack Exchange Signal processing" contributors]
Current answers:
Finland, Hämeenlinna, Olli Niemitalo
France, Greater Paris area (Nanterre), Laurent Duval
The Netherlands, ...
- 31.6k
14
votes
2
answers
198
views
Computer Vision questions are on-topic or off-topic?
I know that there Computer Vision themed site in incubator, but it is still far enough from beta. So, is it appropriate to ask CV related questions here (since SP and CV peoples often intersect and ...
- 446
14
votes
0
answers
129
views
2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Signal Processing's 1st moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
They'll be replacing the pro tempore crew shortly — please thank them ...
- 101
13
votes
3
answers
266
views
Name change for DSP.SE?
Based on this question, there are many who feel that a image processing and computer vision should be given higher visibility on this site. The separate proposal for a CV/IP site has not succeeded, ...
Peter K.Mod
- 25.1k
13
votes
5
answers
269
views
Bad results of the last two site self-evaluations: what to do about it?
So... um... if nobody is going to react or write anything, let me. What should we do about this?
When I came to this site, most of the questions were well written, interesting, and enticed me to ...
- 3,666
13
votes
1
answer
317
views
Signal Processing Stack Exchange - Top User Swag!
Note: The email that went out mentioned Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange - this was an error. The title did not get edited from the last swag email that went out. All the other information in the ...
- 101
12
votes
2
answers
123
views
can I invite someone to the private beta? [closed]
There are some engineers I know that would be good to have involved in the bea but did not register at Area51. Is there a way to get them private beta accounts?
- 2,950
12
votes
1
answer
155
views
Where to draw the line between programming, signal processing, and mathematics?
I just asked this question: What approximation techniques exist for the square super-root function?, and there's some discussion in the comments (which I think is warranted) as to whether it's too ...
datageistMod
- 4,817
11
votes
6
answers
572
views
Again, I am getting tired of all the stale, unanswered questions being dredged up by "Community"
Did you see the number of these stale questions?
Can't we just kick Community's ass outa here?
- 19.8k
11
votes
0
answers
170
views
Private Beta Extended -- Still Going Strong [closed]
The Community Team spent some time looking at the Signal Precessing Private Beta today, and we saw a lot of good things: You have a good amount of meta activity (and you are very civil!), you are ...
- 101
9
votes
4
answers
148
views
Is Computer Vision on-topic here? [closed]
Possible duplicate: Computer Vision questions are on-topic or off-topic?
The Computer Vision proposal is about halfway there. According to the meta post I linked above, the scope of that proposal is ...
- 101
9
votes
2
answers
210
views
Should short answers be comments or answers?
Is the culture of dsp.stackexchange.com such that you're not supposed to give short answers? My occasional short answers have usually received negative votes. Can we bring into question the ...
- 13.5k
9
votes
2
answers
82
views
What about high answer quality?
There has been a large amount of warning about making sure we get started with high quality questions, but what about high quality answers?
I think so far the answers we have been getting are just ok ...
- 1,083
9
votes
1
answer
115
views
Information theory -- on-topic?
I had added this as a comment to another question about what the site should consider an on-topic question and encouraged by others thought it merited its own question.
Given that Claude Shannon ...
- 101
9
votes
2
answers
165
views
MATLAB or Signal Processing?
Signal Processing community now has really set a good high standard of answer by now. Most important aspect i believe are
We have seen deep understanding of algorithms including all relevant ...
- 5,577
8
votes
6
answers
214
views
How can we be more welcoming?
This recent SO blog post got me thinking about how DSP.SE can be more welcoming of newcomers of all flavors.
The specific sorts of questioners that I believe we need to encourage more are:
Homework ...
Peter K.Mod
- 25.1k
8
votes
3
answers
107
views
Citing StackExchange or the Signal Processing group
StackExchange in general and this Signal Processing group in particular have been very useful in helping us use fft for a research project. However, we're trying to publish this stuff in a scientific ...
8
votes
3
answers
196
views
Let's get the site's answer rate back to over 90%!
For over a year (close to two years actually) this site has been growing, and quite a few members are taking an active part in both asking and answering the questions. As all of you (I'm sure) are ...
8
votes
1
answer
75
views
What should happen to DSP questions that have several answers/an accepted answer on SO already?
There are quite a few questions on SO on image processing that are much more about "how do I detect X" rather than "how do I implement this detection algorithm in language Y", for example this ...
- 3,061
8
votes
1
answer
58
views
How do we get more users to contribute to beta?
If you look through the list of users and their ratings on DSP.SE, there aren't many participants. Is there a way to send everyone "a friendly reminder" that the web site is still here and is in need ...
- 5,126
8
votes
1
answer
111
views
Let's organize an answer posse!
Allow me to introduce myself.
Recently y'all participated in community evaluation, which shows that the quality of your site is consistently high. I personally can't judge your answers (or really ...
7
votes
4
answers
85
views
What is our stance on "Where can I find code for x?"
Question at hand: https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/3/any-good-open-source-implementation-for-hand-tracking
The question immediately got a down-vote, my assumption is that it received it ...
- 1,083
7
votes
4
answers
300
views
Culture of knowledge and academic discourse on this board
I would like to inform everybody that you are losing me as a contributing member of this community. I cannot stand the hostility against non-engineering (but rather math oriented) approaches to DSP ...
- 4,557
7
votes
2
answers
84
views
Are OpenCV questions on topic?
It would seem that questions about the use of OpenCV should be on topic, because they are usually questions about computer vision algorithms in disguise. There are plenty of such questions on ...
- 5,071
7
votes
7
answers
435
views
What are the units of $f/f_s$? [closed]
Which is sometimes called the normalized frequency.
Is it unitless?
$$ \frac{f \; Hz }{f_s \; Hz } = \frac{f}{f_s} $$
Or not?
$$ \frac{f \; \frac{cycles}{second} }{f_s \; \frac{samples}{second} } = \...
- 7,482
7
votes
1
answer
101
views
Should ChatGPT answers be labeled?
First ChatGPT answer (AFAICT) was posted yesterday, and I didn't notice.
There's debate, and while I'm inclined to favor a ban, I won't argue.
Main problem to my mind is that ChatGPT is good at ...
- 8,735
7
votes
1
answer
129
views
Do hardware benchmarks questions have lasting value?
This is in regards to a recent question: DSP Benchmarks for ARM Cortex-M4 processor, where the OP asks where he can find benchmarks for his hardware. Do they add value to the site?
My concerns are:
...
- 5,864
7
votes
0
answers
155
views
Stepping down as moderator
I have decided to step down as pro-tem moderator of Signal Processing Stack Exchange and have informed the SE team of my decision (I will stay on until the new pro-tems are picked).
When the ...
- 5,864
7
votes
0
answers
110
views
Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
- 101
6
votes
2
answers
175
views
(Updated) Design for Signal Processing Stack Exchange
Thank you to everyone who took the time to review and provide feedback on the Signal Processing Site Design. Based on the post’s feedback, we created a second option for the site’s color scheme. We ...
- 101
6
votes
2
answers
61
views
How do we promote the site?
Where's the best place to promote the site? That's what we're gonna need to really drag in a lot of people pretty quickly. Are there magazines that we need to buy ad-space in or is there a specific ...
- 1,539
6
votes
1
answer
198
views
A Leadership Vacuum: Please Step Up
For the last two months, I have been seeking an additional moderator for this site. Your community has grown and you need a new person to help assist the current moderation team in nurturing and ...
- 101
6
votes
2
answers
72
views
Are signal identification questions on topic here?
If I were to post a question with a screenshot of a waveform, or a table of datapoints, and ask for suggestions as to what protocol that signal was using, would that be on-topic here?
I'm not sure ...
- 101
6
votes
2
answers
91
views
Should we re-ask questions that were asked on other sites?
I've asked signal processing related questions on other sites before this one existed. Should I re-ask them here? Should I flag them to be migrated? Examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
- 15.6k
6
votes
2
answers
103
views
Are questions on numerical analysis on-topic?
Can we ask questions on numerical analysis here? Prompted by the question: Approximation techniques for the square super-root function?
The comments on the question say:
Great question, but ...
user42
6
votes
3
answers
164
views
ChatGPT Answers
I've been experimenting with ChatGPT and wondered if it could answer this question on main.
So I pasted the whole question text into the ChatGPT interface:
In MATLAB, I have generated an FIR low pass ...
Peter K.Mod
- 25.1k
6
votes
1
answer
64
views
Rename the `Hilbert` Tag into `Hilbert-Transform`
There is a tag named hilbert which is used mainly in the context of Hilbert Transform.
I suggest renaming it into hilbert-transform (Merging it with the current hilbert-transform tag).
The Hilbert ...
- 19k
6
votes
1
answer
127
views
How should we deal with questions that were answered by comments only
Recently I've come across questions which received some good comments but no answers. From the OPs' comments it was clear that the other comments had solved their problem. So practically each of these ...
- 87.4k
6
votes
1
answer
46
views
Should we pay more attention to tag wikis?
I say that at initial stages of the Beta, people who create tags should try and create their wikis as well. I know some of us are doing it already. Otherwise it will be very difficult for a few people ...
- 5,126
6
votes
1
answer
50
views
Custom off-topic reasons: what to use as #3?
The Stack Exchange sites like Signal Processing allow for three custom (and one default) off-topic reason.
The default is:
and our currently-used two custom ones are:
and
There is currently an ...
Peter K.Mod
- 25.1k
6
votes
2
answers
133
views
Can we get rid of and lock the [signal] tag?
On a "Signal Processing" site, adding a signal tag to a question actually carries absolutely no information.
Worse, even, is that most of the questions tagged with it are of mediocre-to-bad quality¹ (...
- 29.1k
6
votes
2
answers
131
views
Community Promotion Ads 2016
It's 2016 now, and we've made some changes to the sidebar size, and so with it, we now have finally reached the time to start Community Promotion Ads on your graduated site!
What are Community ...
- 101
6
votes
1
answer
95
views
How 'expert' do my questions need to be for this site?
I'm just starting out on DSP and most of my knowledge is self-taught and researched online. As I'm learning I may have some pretty basic questions for this site. For example, I had/have a question ...
- 109
6
votes
1
answer
59
views
Order and consistency in tagging
This post is primarily to get a consensus on appropriate tag name conventions. Signal processing is a very diverse field and not everyone might be familiar with all acronyms (other than basic ones). I ...
- 5,864
6
votes
1
answer
187
views
Don't forget about the chat?
During these first few days of the site formation, using the chatroom can be a great resource (since as right now, the site has only been up for a few hours, and some of these discussions may be ...
- 1,539
6
votes
1
answer
114
views
Why was this question migrated to SO?
This question was migrated to SO. I was wondering why, since it's not a particularly good fit for SO:
Image of (pseudo?) code: a big no-no.
Asking to read paper by a 3rd party and find an error in it:...
- 2,340