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I like the idea. If I'm playing with some facebook data, right now I use whatever language I'm confortable with and use its HTTP request functionality, and than manipulate the data how I want in that language. To achieve the same thing in pigshell I have to write a shell script that manipulates the data. What can pigshell do that I can't just do in another language?
publicly available repository of data that I've allowed to be assembled
aboutthedata[0] by Acxiom is headed in that direction I think - just specifically for the ads they control, I think. I interned there, but I wasn't involved with aboutthedata.
This could potentially provide insight into Autism cases? Training an AI to be attentive to social cues, and then training another one to be not as attentive - and see what kind of results come out of each. This could also point us in a direction of what type of cues are the most important to pay attention to.
well the opening paragraph was a little dramatic
I think they did something good with the way (it seems) they standardized typing math equations. When you're searching some complicated integral with fractions and polynomials, you can pretty much put the spaces somewhere different every time in Google and get a different result. When I started typing an equation on DuckDuckGo I noticed that it automatically suggests a search with the spaces taken out of it.
Also, I searched "Juicy J Acapellas" and was impressed because I found some sites that I enjoyed that I hadn't ever found before.
But for the MIT undergrad black market I don't know if there would be the quantity or type of goods that would require a student to "hide" a significant quantity of money.
This would work for people who are just trying to avoid the line at the coffee shop, though. Coffee (pastries, etc.) are made-to-order, and I would be fine ordering on an app before I even got in the car if it meant that I didn't have to sit in a line when I got there (assuming it's a busy time)
So they'd have to send you an update to your mobile device, which now creates more questions like, how to communicate to the person in line that's been waiting for 15 minutes that no, you are not cutting in line.
Something like a pick-up window would work.
do you show your phone to the person and hope they have good organization of orders pending pickup?
In my opinion, if the food truck has implemented this Square software, they might keep "organization of orders pending pickup" in mind. Showing your phone to the person should be enough, (with some sort of simple identification on the phone message).
I don't know if Square Pickup does this but I'm just arguing against your doubt that it wouldn't work.