Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix (opens in new tab)

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30 pointsv4rp1ng5mo ago6 comments

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> the fingerprint method has now also been submitted for patenting and taken up by a medical technology company

So simple — why hasn't anyone thought of that already?

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.

efm5mo ago

The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.

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tanderson925mo ago

They have.

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