Questions tagged [discussion]
Use if the question you're asking is designed to reflect different opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Are software-level questions about proof assistants questions on-topic? Like how to install/run/open Coq/Lean?
It's mainly regarding this question.
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Proof Assistants's Moderator election #2 has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates for a competitive election, we simply appointed the candidates who nominated themselves:
They will ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 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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Why are we having an election?
An election was just announced: Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2024, however no explanation was given about the reason for this election.
We already had an election in 2022 and we have three ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2024
Summary: Proof Assistants Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 9th, 2024 to bring in 2 more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement ...
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Are we out of beta yet?
Can someone explain whether we are out of beta, and if we're not, what needs to happen? Or is it the case that the site banner has not been updated, but we are otherwise out of beta?
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Hobbled math processing on this site?
In a site about proof assistants, I'd expect to be able to format mathematics reasonably smoothly, but many things ( cases, newline, and set-brackets are just two of the things that I've found so far )...
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What do we do about the Coq tag wrt the rename to Rocq?
Since the language Coq has been renamed to Rocq, should we also rename or redirect the tag?
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Are questions about automated theorem provers on topic?
I asked the what is needed to move from design by contract to using a proof assistant?
not realizing that proof assistant seems to imply interactivity.
I now realize I meant something else - automated ...
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New SE site for Programming Language Design
As Proof Assistants is one of the newest SE sites, many of you might remember the process that's in place for getting a new site approved, and many of you might remember how exciting it is to be one ...
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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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On tags for technical support
I doubt that tags like installation is of any use. No one is probably going to watch or use this tag, because people don't tend to learn everything about the installation of every proof assistant.
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Engineerings questions on internal details of Proof Assistant implementations, usage and modifications?
I am trying to understand if PA.SE is more for maths or for programming. I have a detailed question on the internals of Coq and cannot decide if to put it here or to put it in the regular stack ...
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User Abusing the System for Homework Problem?
I witness a user, called "learner123", posting similar questions on Stackoverflow and ProofAssistants Stackexchange, then suddenly all his questions are "voluntarily removed". See:
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Code Reviews on topic?
There are two related questions here:
Question 1: Reviewing proof scripts? I just formalized a type system in Coq (and I'm almost certain it is not "idiomatic Coq"), would it be appropriate ...
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Renaming "extensional-equality" to "extensional-type-theory"
Is there any better suggestion or reasons against changing extensional-equality to extensional-type-theory? As Couchy suggests, the current tag is slightly ambiguous. If there is no objection, I think ...
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Are questions about categorical logic on topic?
Are questions about categorical logic and the related category theory are on topic on this website? Categorical logic is strongly connected to type theory and the semantic of (many) proof assistants, ...
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How to write a tag wiki excerpt?
I'm hoping to establish some sort of guideline for writing tag wiki excerpts (or usage guidance).
Examples of tag wiki excerpts I find usually fall into two categories. The first references the tag ...
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Should I create tags for common components in proof assistant implementations?
I'm asking questions about certain type-checking phases of a proof assistant (conversion-check, elaboration, ...
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How detailed should tags be?
I saw a tag coq-definition. Should there be $\forall l\in \text{ProofAssistants}, l\text{-definition}$ tag? Should there be like ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Proof Assistants has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be your initial pro-tem moderator team — please thank them for ...
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Candidate changes in 2022 Moderator Election – review your ballot
TL;DR: There's been a change in the candidate list for the 2022 Moderator Election. If you've already voted, you should confirm your votes still accurately represent your preferences. Details follow.
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How can the actual count of those eligible to vote be determined?
In the election chat room I gave a count of the number of users allowed to vote: 126 users. I did this by looking at the users page and just counting them by hand. It started a series of others ...
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What is wrong with the question "Formalizations of unsolved problems"?
There are comments suggesting that the question Formalization of unsolved problems should be closed because it doesn't contain the big-list tag. I don't understand this. Am I missing something?
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 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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Leaving Private Beta & Initial Pro-Tem Moderator Election!
Congratulations! You've met the participation and engagement expectations for an active private beta site and will be going into public beta tomorrow!
As we’re getting ready to wrap up the private ...
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Is there a post that compares major proof assistants?
Is there a post that compares major Proof Assistants and provides suggestions of when to use each one, e.g. comparing: Agda, Coq, Idris, Isabelle, and Lean? With suggestions
If not, can create a post?
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How to get more daily views?
The weakest point on the Area 51 Site is our views. We need to get a lot more if the site wants to leave beta.
But, how can we do this? As it says:
Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come ...
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Should we have a Citation Helper?
It looks like a great deal of questions so far are about theoretical aspects of proof assistants and the underlying type theories. The answers to these questions rely on academic papers and conference ...
