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  "id": 47750,
  "title": "Image file format consistency",
  "url": "/competitions/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/47750",
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  "post_date": "2018-01-18T11:01:26.495776100Z",
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  "content": "<p>All of training images and most of stage 1 testing images are in 4 channel, 8 bits deep format. Some of test images are in 3 channels, 8 bits deep format. Can we assume that stage 2 test images will be in one of these two formats?</p>",
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      "postDate": "01/18/2018 11:01:26",
      "content": "<p>All of training images and most of stage 1 testing images are in 4 channel, 8 bits deep format. Some of test images are in 3 channels, 8 bits deep format. Can we assume that stage 2 test images will be in one of these two formats?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "All of training images and most of stage 1 testing images are in 4 channel, 8 bits deep format. Some of test images are in 3 channels, 8 bits deep format. Can we assume that stage 2 test images will be in one of these two formats?",
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      "id": "270564",
      "postDate": "01/18/2018 14:23:23",
      "content": "<p>I believe it’ll be RGBA (for “technical reasons”). But the alpha channel is unused (it’s zeroed out) so you can treat it as RGB without issue. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I believe it’ll be RGBA (for “technical reasons”). But the alpha channel is unused (it’s zeroed out) so you can treat it as RGB without issue.",
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      "author_name": "agoodman",
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      "post_date": "01/18/2018 14:23:23",
      "content": "<p>I believe it’ll be RGBA (for “technical reasons”). But the alpha channel is unused (it’s zeroed out) so you can treat it as RGB without issue. </p>",
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    "270503": "All of training images and most of stage 1 testing images are in 4 channel, 8 bits deep format. Some of test images are in 3 channels, 8 bits deep format. Can we assume that stage 2 test images will be in one of these two formats?",
    "270564": "I believe it’ll be RGBA (for “technical reasons”). But the alpha channel is unused (it’s zeroed out) so you can treat it as RGB without issue."
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