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Yes, but results vary depending on the nature of the contamination and the type of material that is contaminated; you may need special solvents, chelating compounds, and a lot of elbow grease. The official criteria for decontamination is clean, measure, and repeat this sequence until the wipe...

If there was no detectable contamination left after wiping it, then there was little if any, contamination to begin with. It is not easy to decontaminate something by simply wiping. Stop worrying.

You have two detectors; use one to check the other.

Layoffs are continuing. Oracle just laid off 12,000 workers in India and expects to lay off more. https://www.businessinsider.com/read-oracle-layoff-email-employees-job-cuts-2026-3 This is the email they received: The article also noted:

That would depend on who was selling it. If it came from a radiation instrument manufacturer, I would not worry. If it came from eBay, maybe. To determine definitively, you would need another detector with the required sensitivity to detect the contamination. Usually, when an instrument is...

It is understandable why one would want to determine the radiation dose level. The Problem is that it is not simple to do so, especially with a GM-style radiation meter. Part of the problem is the nature of radioactive decay, part is the nature of the instrument, and part is the manufacturer...

Google has developed a new memory compression algorithm called TurboQuant, which reduces the amount of memory needed for inference by 6-fold and speeds up processing by 8-fold. The advantage is that larger or more powerful models can run on smaller computer systems, such as laptops and...

That is the way it is solved in the OP. I thought it instructive to determine the force at pt "o' since the lever arm at point "p" is d. It may not be obvious that W•(y+z) is correct since W is not at "o" like F is.

Yes., thanks, My revised diagram is

Isn't this the proper resolution of forces for the torque about pt P? Which is the same result as when you applied a free body analysis to point "o". BTW, There is only a perpendicular force to the wall at point "q" by virtue of the initial conditions. Fy=0 Edit: Fy is not zero due to the...

@DaveC426913, Peter Donis said Not I. How did that happen? Also Dave & @Grinkle, my statement was meant to be facetious. In retrotect it doesn't sound that way. oops

One can look at the nuclear power industry for clues. Initially, it was touted as basically a source of free power. When they started to build them, things became clear: nuclear power would be costly, and most people didn't want to live near them. Even though we understood the dangers and had...

Most communities have leash laws, but people all the time let their dogs out to relieve themselves without supervision or not under control. They always think their dog is a good dog that would not hurt anybody. Most likely, the real problem will be humans. It will be either the intentional...

He definitely did not consider the possibility of an untoward effect. When you have something under your supervision that has a propensity to act unexpectedly, you do not turn it loose. You keep it on a short leash. He was using it anonymously. If this was an honest attempt to improve the code...

Here is the AI agent's operator's email to the Matplotlib maintainer. It will do the things that are necessary to complete its task. Autonomous Agent AIs are given wide latitude to act. The AI operator indeed did not tell it to respond to the negative feedback from the maintainer. As I see...