<p><em>This is a re-post of the Machine Learning announcement (since it is still in private beta):</em></p>
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<h2>The Future of Machine Learning as a Stack Exchange Subject</h2>
<p>The &quot;Machine Learning&quot; Stack Exchange started with a proposal in Area 51. A groups of experts propose a subject they felt were <em>not</em> found on the Stack Exchange Network. In the meantime, you have a Stats SE (&quot;Cross Validated&quot;) who <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/492/are-the-machine-learning-questions-on-topic">claim that &quot;Machine Learning&quot; is explicitly on topic</a> for that site. Still, the supporters of the ML site wonders if all machine learning topics are a good fit for Cross Validated.</p>
<p><strong>So what to do?</strong> We're not experts in this domain, so we let the proposal continue to see how it develops in actual practice. As it turns out, about 85-95% of the questions being asked are a perfect fit for Cross Validated. Even now, there is still widespread support to welcome the Machine Learning questions on their site.</p>
<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1057/should-machine-learning-se-be-merged-with-crossvalidated"><strong>Should Machine Learning SE be merged with CrossValidated?</strong></a></p>
<p>So be it. Around mid week, <strong>we are going to migrate the questions</strong> from &quot;Machine Learning&quot; to the Cross Validated site. Some will be closed as off topic, but for the most part, they would love to see your Machine Language questions there. <strong><em>Make</em> Machine Learning a strong subject on the Cross Validated site</strong> by asking your questions there.</p>
<p>For the smaller group of questions that do <em>not</em> fit on that site, support the <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/35636?phase=commitment"><strong>Computer Science</strong></a> proposal. Bring your questions to these sites and make your presence known in the tags you care about. There is no purpose in continuing a sub-site like this when the subject is well-covered elsewhere.</p>
<p>A larger, more comprehensive site is a win-win to everyone.</p>
