I’m not feeling creative today so I’ll just write “Dildo joke”.

It’s only glowing blue because there are orcs nearby.

Haha good one. “Punny answer.”

I am curious where this drop and run source comes from.

Typically, they’re sealed in a shielded box, where you can open a small windows that the gamma say can escape and are used for field radiography when inspecting bridge/pipeline solder. Definitely not a drop and run thing

If your are very lucky, you can find one by the side of the road in Australia.

I’m guessing it’s short for “If you don’t know what this is and you find it outside of any shielded box, shit has gone very wrong and you should not be near this, let alone touch it”. The probably best way to get people to stop touching it is to suggest that it poses an acute threat, hence the urgency in the phrasing “drop and run”.

So if you’re operating a device wherein it’s properly contained, you don’t see the label. If you’re removing it while protected appropriately, you already know the label doesn’t apply to you. If you know how to handle it, you don’t need instructions.

I am guessing the idea is to induce terror in the holder such that, if they did not intend to hold a vial of Co 60, they would not mess with it further. It conveys the appropriate level of danger, if not an appropriate set of handling instructions.

Edit: So I looked it up and I misunderstood: if you can read that (especially by the blue glow) then its rapidly killing you. I really don’t understand how dangerous some radiation is lmao.

find the right answer by posting the wrong answer.”

Cunningham’s Law FTW

Time for a rewatch of Chernobyl.

They have “ray of frost”. They can understand “radiation”. Not necessarily what is radiating but the word itself is old.

radiation(n.)

mid-15c., radiacion, “act or process of emitting light,” from Latin radiationem (nominative radiatio) “a shining, radiation,” noun of action from past-participle stem of radiare “to beam, shine, gleam; make beaming,” from radius “beam of light; spoke of a wheel” (see radius).

Tldr “radiate” is like 1500’s whereas “emitter” is a fairly modern word, from the 1880’s.

Lots of “stops” everywhere and and skulls in red triangles, yeah, that should be somewhat clear toa lot of people. But not everyone

Ah, I remember this story:

on September 24, Ivo, Devair’s brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother.

What a horrible way to die

Does temperature affect nuclear decay?

Technically, maybe, but the effect is negligible.

My favorite podcast did an episode about that!

Highly recommend if you like leftism, and also want to listen to an engineer talk at length about what this blue glowing powder is, the series of bad decisions that led to some scrap collectors finding it, and the even longer series of even worse decisions people made regarding what to do with this blue glowing powder

You can skip the Goddamn News if you want, discussion of the spicy rocks starts at 20:28

Make it fancy. “Malluminance” or something

This glyph clearly portrays the object with the ️ symbol bringing someone back from the dead! We should consume the blue powder inside this metal case, as it’s clearly a kind of medicine

This kind of symbology is never going to work. We know what archaeologists do when they understand the “you will die if you break this seal” message. Ain’t no symbol is going to keep a damn human from cracking open the glowy blue box

It’s not so much that it’s visible in air, it’s just that your eyes have water in them

So yeah, if you can see Cherenkov radiation outside of a pool of water, then that means the only thing attenuating the radiation is your eyeballs

I love Well There’s Your Problem, highly recommend that episode as well

ChatGPT is a text generator. Any “information” it delivers is only correct by chance, if at all. Without the knowledge to check the answers yourself, you can’t possibly tell whether you’re falling for random error.

More in-depth, ChatGPT has learned how likely certain word patterns are in combination. Something like “1+1=” will most often be followed by “2”. ChatGPT has no concept of truth or mathematical relationship, so it doesn’t “understand” why this combination occurs like that, it just imitates it.

You can actually see the slight randomisation in the inconsistent way 5.18 is rounded to 5.2 instead. If this was correct – I’m not qualified to comment on that – and written by a human, you’d expect them to be more consequent with the precision. It’s likely that ChatGPT learned these number-words from different sources using different precision and randomly picks which one to go with for each new line.

So what happens when it decides a word combination seems plausible, but it doesn’t actually make sense? Well, for example, lawyers get slapped with a fine for ChatGPT citing case law that doesn’t exist. They sounded valid, because that’s what ChatGPT is made for: generating plausible word combinations. It doesn’t know what a legal case is or how it imposes critical restrictions on what’s actually valid in this context.

There’s an open access paper on the proclivity of LLMs to bullshit, available for download from Springer. The short version is that it’s entirely indifferent to truth. It doesn’t and can’t care or even know whether the figures it spits out are correct.

Use it to generate texts, if you must, but don’t use it to generate facts. It’s not looking them up, it’s not researching, it’s not doing the math – it’s making them up to sound right.

Drop it and run! [New symbol warns of radiation dangers and aims to save lives]

The black-and-yellow trefoil symbol - long the accepted label for denoting radioactive material - is getting a companion. And it's hoped that the new symbol will alert more people to the potential dangers of large sources of ionizing radiation and save lives. Unlike some signs of danger - like the commonly used skull-and-crossbones icon that seems to scream out both 'poison' and 'pirates' the trefoil symbol has little recognition beyond the nuclear community. This was learned from a five-year IAEA-led study to evaluate the best symbol to convey radiation danger. The vast majority of respondents tested in an eleven-country survey had no idea what the symbol meant nor had any knowledge of radiation. In fact, only 6% of those questioned in India, Brazil and Kenya could recognize the trefoil symbol for what it was. What resulted was a recommendation to design a universal system of labelling large radioactive sources. In 2001, IAEA Member States approved the new warning symbol project. The assignment was daunting. How to come up with a symbol that would be universally understood regardless of education, cultural orientation or age? The IAEA has recommended that the symbol be used on IAEA category 1, 2 and 3 sealed radiation sources (dangerous sources that can cause death or serious injury). The symbol was published in February 2007 by the ISO as (Supplementary Ionizing Radiation Warning Symbol : ISO 21482). The next challenge will be to publicize the new symbol within the industry and to obtain consistent implementation on large radioactive source.

INIS – International Nuclear Information System (inis.iaea.org)

“Drop & Run” by IAEA.