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Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix

• v4rp1ng 1y ago
  So simple — why hasn't anyone thought of that already?
  • signa11 1y ago
    typically you don’t know that you are looking for steel-balls in sand, you might be looking for gold coins etc. in such cases the space of all interesting fingerprints is just too large.
    • efm 1y ago
      The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.
      • yorwba 1y ago
        And that is too large a space to test them all with this method.
  • tanderson92 1y ago
    They have.
• lyu07282 1y ago
  > the fingerprint method has now also been submitted for patenting and taken up by a medical technology company