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First pass seemed like Argonne itself was shutting down.

I spoke with an optimization expert from Argonne National Lab and he gave me the same impression, that gradient descent techniques far outperform evolutionary ones.

While not the same idea as yours, a device similar to the one in this video was created at Argonne National Lab with the intention of helping make pharmaceuticals.

> I spoke with an optimization expert from Argonne National Lab and he gave me the same impression, that gradient descent techniques far outperform evolutionary ones.

That's just in the single building where I work, and these are just small subsets of current missions, while labs have specialties in certain areas, such as Livermore being great for lasers, or Argonne being known for transportation research.

Like I said, $4000 a semester at a junior college and I honestly think my education there was about the same quality as U of I, I had professors from Argonne national labs, one guy even designed the electronics for the f-18 hornet and taught as a kind of retirement.

Roger Johnston's "seal defeat laboratory" at Argonne has published many results about this [1].

For some reason, I don't think it's coincidence that Guangzhou Supercomputer Center got put on the US Technology “Denial List” and Argonne awarded Cray a 180 Petaflop sale.

Yeah, the programming language (when it was owned by Allaire) - it's just fun to say "I worked on cold fusion at Argonne National Labs) There's a beautiful nature preserve on site - Waterfall Glen, which my kids love to explore.

There are specific nuclear security/safety labs (Livermore/Sandia/Los Alamos), specific fundamental research labs (Fermi/Brookhaven), and more generalist labs (Oak Ridge/Argonne).

At Argonne's IFR project, they shut down coolant circulation and electric power, and the reactor quietly shut down with no damage.

For the rest, a great source is the book Plentiful Energy, by the chief scientists of another small fast-reactor project at Argonne.