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  "title": "Welcome",
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  "post_date": "2012-08-21T16:13:00.963Z",
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  "content": "<p>We're very excited to launch this competition with StackExchange! I use StackOverflow and StackExchange on a daily basis, and I'm sure many of you do the same as well. Let's see if we can help make the product even better by predicting whether a question\r\n is going to be closed.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nSome <a href=\"https://github.com/benhamner/Stack-Overflow-Competition\">basic code to create the benchmarks</a> is up on github to help you get started.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nGood luck, and please let us know if you have any questions!</p>",
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      "content": "<p>We're very excited to launch this competition with StackExchange! I use StackOverflow and StackExchange on a daily basis, and I'm sure many of you do the same as well. Let's see if we can help make the product even better by predicting whether a question\r\n is going to be closed.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nSome <a href=\"https://github.com/benhamner/Stack-Overflow-Competition\">basic code to create the benchmarks</a> is up on github to help you get started.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nGood luck, and please let us know if you have any questions!</p>",
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      "content": "<p>I'm the Stack Exchange contact for this contest, I'll be happy to field any questions about the how and why of Stack Overflow (and it's data) that come up.</p>\r\n<p>You can reach me here, on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/kevinmontrose\">Twitter</a>, or at kevin@stackoverflow.com.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>I'm the Stack Exchange contact for this contest, I'll be happy to field any questions about the how and why of Stack Overflow (and it's data) that come up.</p>\r\n<p>You can reach me here, on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/kevinmontrose\">Twitter</a>, or at kevin@stackoverflow.com.</p>",
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