Posts by Ross Rochford

NZ parents may lose battle to keep baby '4real'

re: a well designed name could really screw up databases

I think you would put NULL in single quotes as I believe is required by SQL. That would be funny though : )

Why do robot experts build such lousy robots?

re: Statistical inference

Viktor thanks for that (Im assuming that was a reply to me), I find it fascinating how speed and distance is found. 'Statistical inference' suggested to me something to do with how an agent infers things (draws conclusions) from its percepts which as Im sure you know can be done statistically but also in other ways (eg rule based producion systems).

Im no expert here though *bows to your great knowledge* : )

Automatic vacuum cleaner need not be 'intelligent'

I don't see why building grandios AI systems for these seems necessary. The solution is simple:

Place the vacuum cleaner in a dedicated start location in a room, move it along the area of the room to be vacuumed manually allowing it to remember the path by sensing the wheels.

The vacuum then simply follows the same path, you only retrain it if you move the furnature of something.

Problem solved : )

Statistical inference?

Could you elaborate on this? There are alot more ways of inferring than just using statistical data as far as I know.