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[SE.Math](https://math.stackexchange.com/ https://math.stackexchange.com/) is for pretty much any sort of math question you might have. At least for traditiona

by _Nat_ 7y ago

[SE.Math](https://math.stackexchange.com/ https://math.stackexchange.com/) is for pretty much any sort of math question you might have. At least for traditional mathematics -- statistics, numerical algorithms, data science, AI, etc., tend to better fit on other StackExchange sites. [MathOverflow](https://mathoverflow.net/ https://mathoverflow.net/) is the sorts of math questions that will probably sound like gibberish to anyone who doesn't have a graduate-level education in Math. And I mean specifically in Math, not in Engineering or Physics. Usually, if you want to ask a math question -- even a reasonably complex one that someone would need a lot of education to understand -- it'll go on SE.Math. MathOverflow's more of a specialty site for mathematicians. To note it, the distinction between SE.Math and MathOverflow has at least two parallels: 1. [SE.ComputerScience](https://cs.stackexchange.com/ https://cs.stackexchange.com/) vs. [SE.TheoreticalComputerScience](https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/ https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/) ; and 2. [SE.Physics](https://physics.stackexchange.com/ https://physics.stackexchange.com/) vs. [PhysicsOverflow](https://www.physicsoverflow.org/ https://www.physicsoverflow.org/) . In all three cases, one site's more appropriate for most users, ranging from beginners to experts, while the other site's more specifically for research-level topics in the field.

tialaramex 7y ago
Cryptography really needs this. Both the Stack Exchange and the Reddit for crypto will typically have at the top of the pile: 1 x post from a cryptocurrency newbie, happy to find an audience who undoubtedly want to buy their FlappyBirdCoins. HODL HODL! We're going to the sky! Actually this post _is_ appropriate and it IS on topic and you're only saying it isn't because you don't understand digital currency is the future. (Grr) 2 x post from people who've read about the One Time Pad and are now convinced their grade school cipher is better and here's 40 characters of output - bet you can't break it. No I didn't read the instructions saying not to do this, I'm too smart to need to read instructions. 1 x post from somebody with a basic grasp who has a real but fairly trivial question, like, why is the exponent 65537 used for RSA ? This question may or may not just be their homework. 1 x post that is a good question but shouldn't be filed here, like, how do I configure Apache to enable TLS 1.3 ? 1 x post which is actually appropriate, like why does this algorithm say to use a pseudo-prime P when it only seems to be important that A isn't a factor of P ? Doesn't this 1987 journal paper I found show that it would work for other values just fine ?

by _Nat_ 7y ago

tialaramex 7y ago

Cryptography really needs this. Both the Stack Exchange and the Reddit for crypto will typically have at the top of the pile: 1 x post from a cryptocurrency newbie, happy to find an audience who undoubtedly want to buy their FlappyBirdCoins. HODL HODL! We're going to the sky! Actually this post _is_ appropriate and it IS on topic and you're only saying it isn't because you don't understand digital currency is the future. (Grr) 2 x post from people who've read about the One Time Pad and are now convinced their grade school cipher is better and here's 40 characters of output - bet you can't break it. No I didn't read the instructions saying not to do this, I'm too smart to need to read instructions. 1 x post from somebody with a basic grasp who has a real but fairly trivial question, like, why is the exponent 65537 used for RSA ? This question may or may not just be their homework. 1 x post that is a good question but shouldn't be filed here, like, how do I configure Apache to enable TLS 1.3 ? 1 x post which is actually appropriate, like why does this algorithm say to use a pseudo-prime P when it only seems to be important that A isn't a factor of P ? Doesn't this 1987 journal paper I found show that it would work for other values just fine ?