[Dprglist] Rainwater's Sieve

[Larry Kerns]

Sounds like the old Missouri motto, "Show Me"!!

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> On Dec 6, 2016, at 11:19 AM, David Anderson <davida at smu.edu> wrote:
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> Howdy DPRG,
> 
> At a recent RBNO we were discussing the volume of bad robot building advice on the internet (I'm shocked!  Shocked!) and robot.net's Steve Rainwater's advice for sifting through the noise.  I've run across some really egregious examples of this on the net recently, and thought it might be good to share Steve's wisdom with the group.
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> Basically Steve had designed three simple questions to separate the robot builders from the "blowhards" (his term) and I've used his questions myself to good effect on more than one occasion.  They are really quite simple.
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> Rainwater's Sieve
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> Question #1:   Where is your robot?
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> Question #2:   May we see it?
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> Question #3:   Can you turn it on?
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> Steve says, if you can't get good positive answers to these three questions, you are  probably dealing with a blowhard.
> 
> Were all of life so simple!
> 
> cheers,
> dpa
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