Simping is bad engineering... and related to nuclear as everything else.. Watch this interesting video and enjoy the moment.
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00:00 You buy gifts for her, compliment her constantly, and start dropping your hobbies to get into her.
00:06 Ugh, this is terrible reactor operating philosophy.
00:10 You're essentially saying, I have observed this operator likes this particular parameter,
00:15 therefore I shall continuously adjust my reactor to maximize operator approval.
00:20 That's not engineering, that's control system instability.
00:23 When you ask her out, she says no.
00:26 So the system still produced a negative response.
00:28 In nuclear engineering, when the reactor doesn't respond the way you expected,
00:32 you don't immediately start randomly turning knobs.
00:35 You stop, you look at the data, and you determine whether your underlying model was wrong.
00:41 You don't increase your control rod withdrawal rate just because you want the neutron flux to light you.
00:47 So you hit the gym, get a fresh haircut, and buy new clothes.
00:52 Alright, improving yourself, fantastic.
00:53 Doing it entirely because you're trying to maximize one particular output, questionable.
00:59 It's like upgrading your reactor because the inspector didn't like your paint job.
01:03 Trying to become the person you think she wants.
01:06 Mmm.
01:07 So modifying your entire reactor configuration until this one customer approves my electricity,
01:13 you're optimizing the wrong objective functions.
01:17 But when you try again, he still isn't interested.
01:20 Clear result, the hypothesis is not supported.
01:23 If the system doesn't meet the required acceptance criteria after repeated testing and mods,
01:28 you say,
01:29 this configuration isn't working.
01:31 Let's move on.
01:32 You see, if your attention is always available, it stops feeling special.
01:37 The bigger issue is reciprocity.
01:39 If you're constantly providing energy to a system in receiving essentially nothing back,
01:44 you have to ask,
01:45 why am I operating this reactor?
01:47 And all of your effort just shows them how desperately you want to be chosen.
01:51 Yep.
01:52 Don't run the reactor at 100% power just because you're hoping the grid will eventually buy your electricity.
01:59 If there's no demand, you're just generating heat and it's got to go somewhere.
02:03 Instead, just work on being comfortable with who you are
02:07 so you can connect with the people who actually like you.
02:11 Nuclear reactor isn't supposed to power every conceivable load.
02:15 You design it for the application it's actually serving.
02:19 And then you'll find a customer that actually wants your electricity.
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