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Would it make sense for there to be a separate SE site for "quantum programming" or "quantum information software", versus quantum information theory?
Let me just start by saying that I don't have any strong opinion on this, and won't be voting yes or no to any proposal in this direction. I am just interested to see what the community thinks, and I'...
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Should people reject edits on a thing, because they don't like the thing?
Recently, I've noticed that some (higher rep) users did some 'silent removal edits' and some tag usage rejections.
When I asked for the motivation for the tag excerpt edit, it was that the reviewer ...
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Would it be useful to have a tag for exercise problems and questions about standard textbook material?
Would it be useful to have a tag for exercise problems and questions about standard textbook material, or other educational material, like online courses and the like?
The idea would be to use them ...
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Proposal for an updated `programming` tag excerpt
The issue of the on-topicness of "pure programming questions" was brought up again recently. One proposal to address this was to have the programming tag excerpt better reflect the kinds of ...
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Tags that start with quantum - ideas?
Unsure if now is the right time for it, but might as well bring it up.
What is the take on tags that begin with quantum-thing?
Personally, I find that such tags, on a Quantum computing site is ...
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Is meta-physics a good tag?
I don't believe the tag meta-physics is a good one for this site. Firstly, such questions generally are more philosophy based, and thus don't really belong here, so having this tag seems to encourage ...
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Why is there a <quantum-computer> tag?
Really, that tag should be gotten rid of.
At least, it should be renamed. Why would anyone not choose a tag named "Quantum Computer" in "Quantum Computing" forum?
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Should the tags 'qubit-state' and 'qubit' be merged?
There are quite few tags with the qubit-state and qubit. Are these fundamentally different? Should the tags 'qubit-state' and 'qubit' be merged?
If not, why are these things different? We should ...
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Should we entertain career advice questions and have a [career-advice] tag?
This question seems pretty opinion based to me, however, I was a bit hesitant to close it initially (since it was well-framed). @NorbertSchuch mentioned that we might create a ...
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Do we need tags for highly specific elementary mathematical topics?
Consider tags such as linear-algebra, inner-product, matrix-representation, tensor-product, partial-trace, trace, eigenvalues-and-eigenvectors, hilbert-space, exponentiation and possibly others I ...
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Should the [quantum-computing-models] tag be used in this question?
I noticed that in this question the OP reverted back to putting in the quantum-computing-models, after I edited it out.
As far as I understand it is for questions regarding different "theoretical ...
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How to remove a tag/retag?
We had quite a few requests to remove tags/retag:
Tags that start with quantum - ideas?
Should the [quantum-computing-models] tag be used in this question?
Please rename [tag:error-correction] to [...
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Do we want programming-language-specific tags such as [python]?
I'm creating this post to fish for opinions. We have had the python tag for some time. Do we want to have this type of tag, and thus possibly also similar tags related to other programming languages ...
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Do we need [error-correction] of the [fault-tolerance]?
I am wondering whether the tags error-correction and fault-tolerance can/should be merged. They seem to relate to the same topic: prevention/correction of errors.
What is your opinion towards merging ...
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Should we micromanage tags, or should we leave them be? [duplicate]
A common (well, twice, at least. I will become common if nothing is done) occurrence on new questions is the following:
@blue removes some tags
I ask why those tags are removed and @blue puts some (...
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