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  "id": 47858,
  "title": "first things first",
  "url": "/competitions/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/47858",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-01-19T20:23:55.459605400Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>just want to throw my thoughts after reading the introduction. It talks a lot about the significance, but from the examples, my take away is that the whole purpose of finding nuclei is to find the the cell. Does it mean that finding nuclei is easier than finding the cell itself? Otherwise, why not just find the cells? \nSorry I am new to this and would like to hear some expert's opinion.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "271167",
      "postDate": "01/19/2018 20:23:55",
      "content": "<p>just want to throw my thoughts after reading the introduction. It talks a lot about the significance, but from the examples, my take away is that the whole purpose of finding nuclei is to find the the cell. Does it mean that finding nuclei is easier than finding the cell itself? Otherwise, why not just find the cells? \nSorry I am new to this and would like to hear some expert's opinion.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "just want to throw my thoughts after reading the introduction. It talks a lot about the significance, but from the examples, my take away is that the whole purpose of finding nuclei is to find the the cell. Does it mean that finding nuclei is easier than finding the cell itself? Otherwise, why not just find the cells? \nSorry I am new to this and would like to hear some expert's opinion.",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "271200",
      "postDate": "01/19/2018 21:47:51",
      "content": "<p>I feel the question answered in this <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/47857\">post</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I feel the question answered in this [post][1]\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/47857",
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    {
      "id": "271225",
      "postDate": "01/19/2018 22:41:33",
      "content": "<p>Actually, that post is misleading and incorrect.</p>\n\n<p>This video introduction might be helpful to answer the question (a very good one!) of \"Why not just identify cells?\":  <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbiq6l50zO8\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbiq6l50zO8</a></p>\n\n<p>In brief, the answer is because identifying nuclei is MUCH easier - if you all get to 95% accuracy on nuclei, maybe we will give it a shot to identify cells from cell stains alone... but I will not be holding my breath!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Actually, that post is misleading and incorrect.\n\nThis video introduction might be helpful to answer the question (a very good one!) of \"Why not just identify cells?\":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbiq6l50zO8\n\nIn brief, the answer is because identifying nuclei is MUCH easier - if you all get to 95% accuracy on nuclei, maybe we will give it a shot to identify cells from cell stains alone... but I will not be holding my breath!",
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    {
      "id": 271200,
      "author_name": "abnerchou",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/19/2018 21:47:51",
      "content": "<p>I feel the question answered in this <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/47857\">post</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 271225,
          "author_name": "drannecarpenter",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "01/19/2018 22:41:33",
          "content": "<p>Actually, that post is misleading and incorrect.</p>\n\n<p>This video introduction might be helpful to answer the question (a very good one!) of \"Why not just identify cells?\":  <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbiq6l50zO8\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbiq6l50zO8</a></p>\n\n<p>In brief, the answer is because identifying nuclei is MUCH easier - if you all get to 95% accuracy on nuclei, maybe we will give it a shot to identify cells from cell stains alone... but I will not be holding my breath!</p>",
          "votes": null,
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        }
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    "271167": "just want to throw my thoughts after reading the introduction. It talks a lot about the significance, but from the examples, my take away is that the whole purpose of finding nuclei is to find the the cell. Does it mean that finding nuclei is easier than finding the cell itself? Otherwise, why not just find the cells? \nSorry I am new to this and would like to hear some expert's opinion.",
    "271200": "I feel the question answered in this [post][1]\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/47857",
    "271225": "Actually, that post is misleading and incorrect.\n\nThis video introduction might be helpful to answer the question (a very good one!) of \"Why not just identify cells?\":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbiq6l50zO8\n\nIn brief, the answer is because identifying nuclei is MUCH easier - if you all get to 95% accuracy on nuclei, maybe we will give it a shot to identify cells from cell stains alone... but I will not be holding my breath!"
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