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  "title": "Empty???",
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  "post_date": "2015-02-17T16:35:53.657Z",
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  "content": "<p>58kxhXouHzFd4g3rmInB is empty... =&gt; ?????</p>",
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      "content": "<p>58kxhXouHzFd4g3rmInB is empty... =&gt; ?????</p>",
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      "content": "<p>58kxhXouHzFd4g3rmInB.asm is not empty for me. Not much info in it though. I've seen few more example like that.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>wont you interpret &quot;??&quot; bytes as only gaps?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Yeah, so we can't interpret those empty .bytes files at all. Luckily it looks like there are no such files in /test &nbsp;and only 4 files in /train, so I guess it's safe to just drop them.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>I have quite a few files in test set that are 0KB.....is that the same for others or i lost data while decompressing?</p>\n<p>The total space on disk taken by test is 158 GB(21746 files)</p>\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=UD1989;64640]</p>\n<p>I have quite a few files in test set that are 0KB.....is that the same for others or i lost data while decompressing?</p>\n<p>The total space on disk taken by test is 158 GB(21746 files)</p>\n<p>Thanks!</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>sample submission file has 10873 files and &nbsp;train labels 10868, so the files are 21741.</p>\n<p>Where are the 0k files? A new data release?</p>",
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      "postDate": "03/02/2015 20:42:58",
      "content": "<p style=\"text-align: left\">They are one of those 10k files</p>",
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      "postDate": "03/02/2015 21:00:17",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Abhishek;65290]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They are one of those 10k files</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>All my files have &gt; 0k ?!</p>\n<p>Could you please give me the name?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>i meant some of them. I havent checked which ones (havent used this info in my model yet).</p>",
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      "postDate": "03/04/2015 00:16:49",
      "content": "<p>He means that there are some&nbsp;files with&nbsp;all the bytes containing the same value...</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=Jos&#233; A. Guerrero;65292]</p>\n<p>[quote=Abhishek;65290]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They are one of those 10k files</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>All my files have &gt; 0k ?!</p>\n<p>Could you please give me the name?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Hey can I check with you the sizes of the following example files?</p>\n<p>ITSUPtCmh7WdJcsYDwQ5.byte</p>\n<p>iwXK2bUysO0CPvBf8nTt.byte</p>\n<p>jEAbMPelkWmNgCrGU2QY.byte</p>\n\n<p>Also &nbsp;are the content of these files all '??&quot; &nbsp;. For me they are actually<em> blank</em> files so I'm pretty certain things didn't get downloaded correctly....</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=UD1989;65413]</p>\n<p>[quote=Jos&#233; A. Guerrero;65292]</p>\n<p>[quote=Abhishek;65290]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They are one of those 10k files</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>All my files have &gt; 0k ?!</p>\n<p>Could you please give me the name?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Hey can I check with you the sizes of the following example files?</p>\n<p>ITSUPtCmh7WdJcsYDwQ5.byte</p>\n<p>iwXK2bUysO0CPvBf8nTt.byte</p>\n<p>jEAbMPelkWmNgCrGU2QY.byte</p>\n<p>Also &nbsp;are the content of these files all '??&quot; &nbsp;. For me they are actually<em> blank</em> files so I'm pretty certain things didn't get downloaded correctly....</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>I think so...</p>\n<p>ITSUPtCmh7WdJcsYDwQ5.byte size: 7112192</p>\n<p>(first 10 lines):</p>\n<p>00401000 63 73 61 31 72 11 40 61 13 10 21 51 71 30 30 41<br>00401010 23 53 70 71 23 00 31 62 41 73 52 73 40 31 22 42<br>00401020 30 32 12 43 43 63 11 12 61 72 41 52 03 20 61 52<br>00401030 50 22 02 21 41 73 52 03 41 11 42 10 62 03 51 12<br>00401040 43 03 61 32 53 53 42 50 13 32 73 70 52 72 43 73<br>00401050 70 72 51 00 13 52 71 03 33 62 63 71 32 70 33 00<br>00401060 72 30 71 41 31 72 52 43 60 10 41 21 31 11 62 22<br>00401070 51 13 70 71 03 61 00 73 40 63 60 21 32 02 63 42<br>00401080 43 52 01 33 23 02 00 41 33 41 23 72 13 73 70 00<br>00401090 73 33 12 23 01 62 12 30 62 70 13 70 11 20 62 40</p>\n<p>iwXK2bUysO0CPvBf8nTt.byte size: 4766208</p>\n<p>00401000 A0 80 A0 20 80 00 00 30 90 20 10 30 B0 30 A0 90</p>\n<p>00401010 30 00 00 80 B0 A0 30 B0 B0 30 10 30 30 A0 10 B0<br>00401020 A0 00 90 20 00 00 20 80 20 90 A0 90 A0 80 30 00<br>00401030 20 B0 00 20 20 B0 B0 20 A0 B0 00 80 10 A0 80 30<br>00401040 80 00 00 10 00 A0 30 00 30 90 00 A0 20 10 80 B0<br>00401050 90 30 10 90 10 20 A0 10 80 B0 30 30 80 10 30 B0<br>00401060 10 90 B0 B0 B0 00 A0 10 00 10 00 B0 20 00 10 00<br>00401070 30 80 B0 90 80 90 B0 90 90 30 10 90 B0 80 30 30<br>00401080 A0 80 90 B0 00 90 00 90 10 B0 30 00 B0 B0 00 30<br>00401090 B0 30 20 30 80 A0 A0 10 80 90 A0 00 10 80 30 80</p>\n<p>jEAbMPelkWmNgCrGU2QY &nbsp;size:&nbsp;5048320</p>\n<p>00401000 A5 07 63 F1 03 14 F6 25 B0 82 73 E1 E4 26 61 06<br>00401010 33 82 D6 41 E1 C2 07 14 72 41 47 55 12 40 70 22<br>00401020 82 73 F4 40 90 D5 F7 B1 57 91 B1 55 00 64 52 05<br>00401030 64 B7 52 04 94 64 C0 B3 A6 F4 66 90 76 65 B5 D6<br>00401040 B5 F7 31 47 82 15 63 74 23 56 52 94 44 97 D7 13<br>00401050 45 C0 A1 60 D0 32 D3 00 27 07 06 33 C2 74 E1 31<br>00401060 65 32 40 A4 90 D7 C2 66 45 C1 27 76 76 A2 90 F3<br>00401070 20 51 D7 83 54 01 E0 06 D4 D0 15 10 64 F7 E2 02<br>00401080 47 E5 A6 24 32 70 A6 B6 C4 04 E7 62 07 70 E4 94<br>00401090 64 75 74 85 27 87 C1 73 91 F7 10 25 A7 64 24 93</p>\n\n<p>Any hint for easy check the MD5s in windows? I would like to check my files too.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>58kxhXouHzFd4g3rmInB.asm is not empty for me. Not much info in it though. I've seen few more example like that.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>wont you interpret &quot;??&quot; bytes as only gaps?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Yeah, so we can't interpret those empty .bytes files at all. Luckily it looks like there are no such files in /test &nbsp;and only 4 files in /train, so I guess it's safe to just drop them.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>I have quite a few files in test set that are 0KB.....is that the same for others or i lost data while decompressing?</p>\n<p>The total space on disk taken by test is 158 GB(21746 files)</p>\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=UD1989;64640]</p>\n<p>I have quite a few files in test set that are 0KB.....is that the same for others or i lost data while decompressing?</p>\n<p>The total space on disk taken by test is 158 GB(21746 files)</p>\n<p>Thanks!</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>sample submission file has 10873 files and &nbsp;train labels 10868, so the files are 21741.</p>\n<p>Where are the 0k files? A new data release?</p>",
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      "content": "<p style=\"text-align: left\">They are one of those 10k files</p>",
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      "content": "<p>i meant some of them. I havent checked which ones (havent used this info in my model yet).</p>",
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      "content": "<p>He means that there are some&nbsp;files with&nbsp;all the bytes containing the same value...</p>",
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      "content": "<p>[quote=Jos&#233; A. Guerrero;65292]</p>\n<p>[quote=Abhishek;65290]</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They are one of those 10k files</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>All my files have &gt; 0k ?!</p>\n<p>Could you please give me the name?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Hey can I check with you the sizes of the following example files?</p>\n<p>ITSUPtCmh7WdJcsYDwQ5.byte</p>\n<p>iwXK2bUysO0CPvBf8nTt.byte</p>\n<p>jEAbMPelkWmNgCrGU2QY.byte</p>\n\n<p>Also &nbsp;are the content of these files all '??&quot; &nbsp;. For me they are actually<em> blank</em> files so I'm pretty certain things didn't get downloaded correctly....</p>",
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