although upon hindsight it's obvious that a Roomba will encounter dog poop (my wife suggested dog vomit too) or cat poop, I'd never thought of it.

This may be an example...

The technology behind robot vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers owes much to the work of MIT professor (and founder of the company Robust.AI) Rodney Brooks.

Brooks' blog offers a very well informed...

Sometimes as technical people we forget all the other pressures our managers are under - personell issues, purchasing, licensing, vendor management, dealing with departmental managers and higher management. It is...

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It is only a matter of time until every byte of every disk in the whole world is completely full of pictures of cute cats.

A vehicle is subject to inspection by the relevant safety authorities before it goes on the market. As the "autopilot" is a new thing I expect that the necessary legislation...

The way to make computer systems accountable is by designing them using logic rather than "AI" or ML.

Consider the steps taken my law makers in drawing up legislation. Although legal...

I think the concerns over SOA with regard to changing structure are things like changing tables. However, I tend to agree with Will that we can make these changes without...

Regardless of whether it's a web application, mobile app, or internal BI reporting system - don't let the front-end application interface with the database directly. Don't even let them have...

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about relational DBMSs and you will find a lot of this misunderstanding out there on the internet.

For example, people talk about a  "relational...

I think we could do more to promote the advantages of using a SQL-DBMS.

I can understand that some developers might have developed an aversion because of the behaviour of some...

To throw a curved ball in here - knowing people who try and make a living from their music,  I will not use Spotify as it pays them spit all....

If you know there are better practices you should follow, then take the few extra moments to implement them. If you don't know of good practices, start compiling a list,...

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Thanks Jeff

That and control characters 28 thru 31.

I'm writing them how I would decode them in JavaScript -

Row split:

data.split("\u001e")

column split:

data.split("\u001f")

It is possible to define a whole set of JavaScript functions...

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With the proliferation of file formats, perhaps it is time to revisit the delimited file and how its problems can be overcome.

CSV stands for comma separated values. As we know...

For a sceptical and very knowledgeable view of the current state of AI and robotics I can recommend Rodney Brooks' blog

https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2021-january-01/

Brooks was the director of the AI lab...