Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:28:36 03/25/02
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On March 25, 2002 at 13:36:32, Slater Wold wrote: >On March 25, 2002 at 13:29:04, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On March 25, 2002 at 13:21:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On March 25, 2002 at 13:00:11, Sune Fischer wrote: >>>[snip] >>>>My personal favorite is Beowulf, it is much more readable than Gerbil IMO. >>> >>>The main idea of Beowulf is a chess learning platform. Special effort was made >>>to help in readability, etc. I think it can be improved yet more in that >>>aspect. Gerbil has some very good ideas in it that are not found in Beowulf or >>>in most other chess engines. The basic framework is very good and the idea of >>>callbacks makes the chess engine part very easily replaceable. For that reason, >>>Bruce's framework could very easily be used for a generic engine to winboard >>>interface (which is often the trickiest part to get right). >>> >>>>Crafty is also not bad once you get the hang of it, I get ideas everytime I look >>>>at it :) >>> >>>It's the "N-reactor"[1] of chess engines. If there is a chess technique you >>>would like to study, it's probably in there. >>> >>>[1] The N-reactor was the most complicated machine in the world. There was not >>>any single human on earth that could even tell you how it worked. It had gangs >>>of 24-way valves connected to gangs of 24-way valves. >> >> >>Dann, as usual I get a laugh or an education (or both) from your posts. I tried >>doing a quick search on N-reactor but couldn't find anything useful. You say it >>"was" the most complicated machine in the world. OK, you've piqued my >>curiosity. Why past tense? And WHAT WAS ITS PURPOSE?? > >http://www.em.doe.gov/circle/nreactor.html > >From the site: > >"The face of the N Reactor core is made of graphite and measures 39 by 33 by 33 >feet. Channels cut horizontally into the graphite held nuclear fuel and uranium >"target" slugs. When the slugs were bombarded with neutrons, some of the uranium >was transformed into plutonium. During the Cold War the United States operated a >total of 14 plutonium-production reactors, creating approximately 100 metric >tons of plutonium for its tens of thousands of nuclear warheads. Hanford Site, >Washington. December 16, 1993." Slater, That's the main page I _did_ read, but I still don't understand. That unit seems to be a nuclear reactor. What makes it special as compared to other nuclear reactors? Why is it referred to in the past tense?
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