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### Why is the URL for Signal Processing dsp.stackexchange.com?

Here's a silly question: Why is the URL for Signal Processing dsp.stackexchange.com? What does DSP stand for?
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### Tag “survailence” should be “surveillance”

Can tag names be edited? I didn't see a way to change it, I hope it's possible... (The SE system is really bad at allowing users to report small problems like this: I can't suggest a tag synonym, ...
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Some questions here are answered in the most intuitive way in the world. I wonder why not gather all pertinent high voted answers in form of tutorials, something like what it is done in https://...
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### Any idea why the $\tt hat$ “$\hat{}$” is a bit off?

I am noticing that the hat accent in $\textrm{"\hat"}$ is a bit off for the past days, going top-right as an exponent. And that's for both inline and display mode. Even the entry on the famous MathJax ...
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### Convert to edit where edit has an image causes images in original post to be replaced

When I deleted an OP answer using the mod convert to edit option on this question, the edit added the edit but didn't update the links to the picture. So the ...
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### How much should one elaborate?

I view this site as having a primary respondent that is the OP of a question. Thus, I try to limit myself to the question asked and not go into details about related things that may have to do with ...
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I got an Announcer badge for sharing the IP address of Filter coefficients for colored noise Voss Algorithm which caused 25 different users to visit the question. But I have no recollection of ever ...
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### My edits need approval again… AND I can vote for my own edit, giving it half the approval needed

Edit of question: Need help implementing DCT Type 4 algorithm I edited the question, and then noticed that I was presented with the "your edit will be placed in a review queue" form that low-rep ...
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### Stack Exchange Signal processing in the real life

Current answers: Finland, Helsinki, Olli Niemitalo France, Greater Paris area (Nanterre), Laurent Duval The Netherlands, Eindhoven area, Matt L. United Kingdom (South Wales), A_A USA, Connecticut, ...
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### How do you study Signal Processing? (and other math intensive topics)

I've been dabbling with Signal processing for a little over a year and a half. Despite having a BS and a MS in Computer Science, I have a shit math background. Right now I'm going through Richard ...
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### tag called “canny-edge-detector”

What is that? Can someone toss in a description? "The question body does not meet our quality standards. Please make sure that it completely describes your problem - including what you have ...
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### Are questions related to steganography or watermarking on topic here?

I am a mathematician, and I have no problem figuring out the programming part when I try to read steganographic approaches on IEEE. So, I thought my questions do not fit stackoverflow. I am a newbie ...
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### IEEE Signal Processing Society membership

My university is having some problems with its IEEE membership since the beginning of the year and I was thinking about getting my own signal processing subscription for a while now but I'm not sure ...
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### Transferring points to another user for answering based on a comment

Would it make sense to have a feature where User-A can donate points to User-B? I've seen situations where User-B posts a valid answer in a short comment, and then User-A comes along and posts a ...
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### why can't i edit this question?

i usually think that i have enough rep to directly edit questions on the SP.SE site. but i cannot edit this question because someone with less rep has an edit in the approval queue. now my "...
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### 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 ...
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### How to poke or ask a community member to answer the question?

Under the place where you post questions, there is a textbox where you can enter email of someone who you think might know the answer to your question. I wonder if there is a way to mention a member ...
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With the opportunity of this post, earlier today, I was wondering what the consensus would be for somehow incorporating "job adverts" in DSP SE. My advice to the OP was to post the job at ...
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### Questions in “close” review queue with no close votes

In the past few weeks I've ocassionally seen questions on the "close" queue that don't have any actual close votes. Has anybody else seen this? Is it a bug?
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### Community Promotion Ads - 2017

It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion ...
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### 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 ...
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### Question follow feature like Quora

Like Quora, we need the ability to follow a good question that we really need to know the new answers that added in future.
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### Giving two separate answers to the same question

I have come across some questions that have received two separate answers from one single person. What are your thoughts on this? What I have in mind is that if the answerer has a new answer, then it ...
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### Tag [tag:fm] should be a synonym of [tag:frequency-modulation]

Came across this, and removed the fm/frequency-modulation double tagging. Recommendation for good ressources on digital processing and D-QPSK So, I think, since this abbreviation is really common, ...
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### How can we “encourage” askers to actually *edit* questions than rather just clarify in the comments?

This happens to me far too often: I ask people to clarify something crucial about their question, and I already add the edit link in bold in the comment, and they still just comment. This is still ...
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### What's this stupid thing about having to indent all of your code with 4 spaces for it to be rendered as code?

isn't there some markup hook that i can use to do that? i'm getting tired of fetching some old C file that i want to simply paste in and having to manually add spaces to many of the lines. this ...
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### I hope it's okay that I created a “fast-convolution” tag

I think we needed it. I searched the archive and attached that tag to a few questions that appeared to be about the topic.
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### Are MATLAB related questions allowed in dsp.se?

For example, is the following a valid question? Which function can I use to implement the following filter in MATLAB? Can I use MATLAB butter(_) function?
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### On non-mandatory regular DSP Chat Meetups

Don't [we] forget about the chat? The question was asked 5.5 years ago, and answered (only) two years later (3.5 years ago) by endolith. Since I was not busy enough eating and drinking during some ...
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### hey, this guy has rep outside of SE. i think he should start with 101 points as was afforded to me when i started

Stefan Stenzel. he's Mr. Waldorf. https://dsp.stackexchange.com/users/25424/stefan-stenzel
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### again, i object to the median filter question being closed

i don't get why people close virtually good questions about salient topics to signal processing. an efficient median filter is definitely a salient topic to DSP.
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### Another little bug in the display of answer scores for accepted answers

Just adding to this related question: In user profiles under Activity => Answers [or Favorites / Bounties] there's a similar problem:
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### Number of answers is not visible for questions with an accepted answer in the favorites tab

I was reviewing the favorites tab in my DSP.SE profile page, when I realized that the number of answers is not visible for those questions with an accepted answer. On the other hand, questions without ...
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### 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 ...
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### What are the “intrinsic tags” tags we'd want to block?

Following the question Can we get rid of and lock the [signal] tag? and especially Kevin's answer FYI: This type of bad tag is called an intrinsic tag and there is a feature specifically to ...
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### Merge [fec] and [channelcoding] tags?

I propose merging these two tags, since they are essentially synonymous. I'd prefer to keep [channelcoding], since it's more descriptive.
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### Can one latexify formulae on Signal Processing meta?

Yesterday, I did some edit to a post, and by mistake retyped formulae with a latex syntax. Signal Processing Meta does not allow latexified math formula yet, see for instance Can we have MathJax ...
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### 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 (...
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### Question's title idem as content, and nothing more. Your thoughts on this?

I have been coming across questions that got a one-line title and where the content of the question is just the same title verbatim. Nothing wrong with giving a clear answer if everything is contained ...
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### Signal Processing or Computer Science or Statistics?

I have a question about my Signal Processing Stack Exchange post: Obtaining n values from n-1 sensors I'm interested in the Signal Processing aspect, but I see a overlap with the Computer Science and ...
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### How does Matt L. do to remain over the top?

[The initial pun turned into a look at observable variables showing trends and clustering] Outlier detection is a radical task in signal processing. The user Matt L. has about three times more total ...
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### Merge [iq] and [quadrature] tags?

I suggest merging the [iq] and [quadrature] tags (or making them synonymous), and keep [quadrature] as the tag name. I tried to do this myself, but everything under "Tags" seems to be read-only.
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### Should plainly incorrect answers be deleted?

This very interesting question has an answer that relies on the dubious assumption that the frequency response of time-varying systems exists in continuous time. I believe the answer is blatantly ...
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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 ...
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### Help center desperately needs more detail

The help/on-topic page needs some love. Right now it consists of a total of one sentence of guidance on what is on-topic: "Signal Processing Stack Exchange is for practitioners of the art and ...
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### 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 ...
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### Tags and synonyms for background problems, especially for 1D signals

There is a tag for background-subtraction, with only 20 questions. Although this term is common in image processing, several questions have been asked recently for signals or time series. I would ...
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### i also think that this question should not have been migrated away from dsp.se

i would write an answer to this question, but do not want to register for yet another SE site. can someone migrate this question back to DSP.SE? https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/...