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Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix
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v4rp1ng
8mo ago
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v4rp1ng
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8mo ago
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So simple — why hasn't anyone thought of that already?
signa11
8mo 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
8mo ago
The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.
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tanderson92
8mo ago
They have.
lyu07282
8mo ago
> the fingerprint method has now also been submitted for patenting and taken up by a medical technology company
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