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  "id": 224420,
  "title": "Do image IDs have any significance?",
  "url": "/competitions/bms-molecular-translation/discussion/224420",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-03-08T11:31:28.291919700Z",
  "votes": 5,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>The images are sorted into directories according to their ID, so I was wondering if perhaps certain IDs correspond to specific molecular structures? Or are the IDs random? I can't really tell because of my limited experience with chemistry.</p>\n<p>Apologies if this was already mentioned somewhere, but I couldn't seem to find anything related.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1230707",
      "postDate": "03/08/2021 11:31:28",
      "content": "<p>The images are sorted into directories according to their ID, so I was wondering if perhaps certain IDs correspond to specific molecular structures? Or are the IDs random? I can't really tell because of my limited experience with chemistry.</p>\n<p>Apologies if this was already mentioned somewhere, but I couldn't seem to find anything related.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The images are sorted into directories according to their ID, so I was wondering if perhaps certain IDs correspond to specific molecular structures? Or are the IDs random? I can't really tell because of my limited experience with chemistry.\n\nApologies if this was already mentioned somewhere, but I couldn't seem to find anything related.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1230753",
      "postDate": "03/08/2021 12:32:46",
      "content": "<p>As far as I've observed, people load the dataset into a single dataframe without paying heed to the id. So that might mean that it's insignificant. Good question though, hope someone will be able to answer if the id matters.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As far as I've observed, people load the dataset into a single dataframe without paying heed to the id. So that might mean that it's insignificant. Good question though, hope someone will be able to answer if the id matters.",
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    {
      "id": "1230776",
      "postDate": "03/08/2021 12:57:35",
      "content": "<p>I wouldn't say that it is insignificant based on that people doesn't play with it right now. This competition has barely started.<br>\nNevertheless, I don't think that putting millions of files into a single directory is a good idea, so the directory structure might just be so to avoid that.<br>\nBut other than that, I have no idea, this is an interesting question.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I wouldn't say that it is insignificant based on that people doesn't play with it right now. This competition has barely started.\nNevertheless, I don't think that putting millions of files into a single directory is a good idea, so the directory structure might just be so to avoid that.\nBut other than that, I have no idea, this is an interesting question.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1230791",
      "postDate": "03/08/2021 13:08:36",
      "content": "<p>You're right, maybe hosts should shed some light on this</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You're right, maybe hosts should shed some light on this",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1230753,
      "author_name": "arka47",
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      "post_date": "03/08/2021 12:32:46",
      "content": "<p>As far as I've observed, people load the dataset into a single dataframe without paying heed to the id. So that might mean that it's insignificant. Good question though, hope someone will be able to answer if the id matters.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1230776,
          "author_name": "nofreewill",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/08/2021 12:57:35",
          "content": "<p>I wouldn't say that it is insignificant based on that people doesn't play with it right now. This competition has barely started.<br>\nNevertheless, I don't think that putting millions of files into a single directory is a good idea, so the directory structure might just be so to avoid that.<br>\nBut other than that, I have no idea, this is an interesting question.</p>",
          "votes": null,
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        },
        {
          "id": 1230791,
          "author_name": "arka47",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/08/2021 13:08:36",
          "content": "<p>You're right, maybe hosts should shed some light on this</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "1230707": "The images are sorted into directories according to their ID, so I was wondering if perhaps certain IDs correspond to specific molecular structures? Or are the IDs random? I can't really tell because of my limited experience with chemistry.\n\nApologies if this was already mentioned somewhere, but I couldn't seem to find anything related.",
    "1230753": "As far as I've observed, people load the dataset into a single dataframe without paying heed to the id. So that might mean that it's insignificant. Good question though, hope someone will be able to answer if the id matters.",
    "1230776": "I wouldn't say that it is insignificant based on that people doesn't play with it right now. This competition has barely started.\nNevertheless, I don't think that putting millions of files into a single directory is a good idea, so the directory structure might just be so to avoid that.\nBut other than that, I have no idea, this is an interesting question.",
    "1230791": "You're right, maybe hosts should shed some light on this"
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