{
  "id": 587791,
  "title": "Timestamp in test data",
  "url": "/competitions/drw-crypto-market-prediction/discussion/587791",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-07-02T18:17:19.628915Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>In the competition documentation, it says: ‘To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.’<br>\nDoes this mean that the test data rows are in completely random order, so we cannot use the IDs to infer any kind of time sequence? Or can we assume that the IDs still preserve the original timestamp order in some way?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3239358",
      "postDate": "07/02/2025 18:17:19",
      "content": "<p>In the competition documentation, it says: ‘To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.’<br>\nDoes this mean that the test data rows are in completely random order, so we cannot use the IDs to infer any kind of time sequence? Or can we assume that the IDs still preserve the original timestamp order in some way?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "In the competition documentation, it says: ‘To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.’\nDoes this mean that the test data rows are in completely random order, so we cannot use the IDs to infer any kind of time sequence? Or can we assume that the IDs still preserve the original timestamp order in some way?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3239365",
      "postDate": "07/02/2025 18:33:05",
      "content": "<p>My understanding is that there is no chronological order to the ID values within the test data.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "My understanding is that there is no chronological order to the ID values within the test data.",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3239365,
      "author_name": "taylorsamarel",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/02/2025 18:33:05",
      "content": "<p>My understanding is that there is no chronological order to the ID values within the test data.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "3239358": "In the competition documentation, it says: ‘To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.’\nDoes this mean that the test data rows are in completely random order, so we cannot use the IDs to infer any kind of time sequence? Or can we assume that the IDs still preserve the original timestamp order in some way?",
    "3239365": "My understanding is that there is no chronological order to the ID values within the test data."
  },
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}