what is it really AI ?

[ivconic]

In 2017, my good friend, whom I met in 2010, died. He was born in 1944.
He lived in Australia for 42 years, worked in various jobs and had Australian citizenship and a pension.
He was an adventurer.
He even searched for an opal once in his life.
He says: "I invested 40k Aus dollars, paid for equipment hire, leased an area and spent a month digging there. I found nothing.
In the last couple of days, the excavation accidentally collapsed and a huge piece of very high-quality opal appeared.
I made 80k dollars from it.
So 40k net, when I take away the investments. But I didn't want to do it anymore, it's too risky, it's all based on luck."
Then he worked as a driver for part of his career, huge trucks on long distances to Perth. Several thousand kilometers in one direction.
When he retired, he came back to Serbia during the summer and autumn.
Before every new year, he would go back to Australia for a couple of months.
He had many wives, one here in Serbia, a couple in Australia.
The woman he returned to Australia every winter was a Chinese woman with whom he had a son.
Unfortunately, he did not want to go to the doctor regularly and died in December 2017 from a heart attack in sleep.

[pustareka]

[moodz]

"You are not an expert in anything else" ???
Ah that's bad news!
I thought you were at least an expert in chasing kangaroos...
Ok, another topic.
I watch on "National..." (or something like that) tv channel all the time my favorite show "Australian gold hunters".
How realistic is it all?
Such huge distances, in layman's terms, I thought: "why wouldn't I go there, buy some rugged SUV, some ML, plenty of water and food and drive far into the desert for a couple of weeks?
Well, I guess I would manage to find enough gold nuggets to cover the expenses and make some money along the way?
Is all of Australia under control? Are there remote places in the wilderness where you can search without limits?
Or do you have to contact the authorities and get some kind of permission for each trip?
How realistic is that story?
Or is it just my naive layman's understanding of the whole story?

Australian Gold Hunters is totally staged .... scripted scenarios, nuggets are supplied for them to "find".
You cant take a camera to the Aussie goldfields and find something just like that. Total BS.

There are maps of State Parks ( thousands of acres ) where you can search without restriction.
In Western Australia you can search on mining leases that are "pending" ... ie the government has not finalised the administrative application by the miner / mining company. This can take up to 3 years .. so plenty of time and space to search for nuggets. There is an app called Trilobite that allows you to see all the pending claims ( more land than you can search in 100 lifetimes ).
You can also get lost out there and die .... many do. No water, No Phone and you lose your bearings if you walk 200 meters from camp.

You can also apply for an E40 permit in WA. The Section 40E Permit System allows Miner's Right holders to apply for a permit to prospect on land within a granted exploration licence. ( ie non pending )

The miners right is available in each state of Australia ( generally ) .... in WA it is 29 AUD for lifetime permits.

Do people find gold ? .... yup ... professional prospectors ( two ppl using metal detectors ) find around 2 ounces per month which is about 10000 to 12000 AUD. But that will be made largely of gram / sub gram sized bits with the occasional "pay day" bit. Its a lot of work. ( walking, swinging, digging ).

[ivconic]

I understand you. That's what I was afraid of. That everything was staged on those shows.
You can find subgram pieces of gold here in mountain streams and rivers in Serbia.
But as you said; a lot of work in extreme conditions.
When you put in the "equation" ... "left and right sides";
with less effort and much more free time, you will earn the same money doing some ordinary job.
It's the same with metal detectors, when I remember everything I found from 1987 until today and put it all on "paper" and add it up; I would have earned 100 times more money if I had worked as an ordinary employee in a company.
The only difference is in "adrenaline" and spending a lot of time in untouched nature.
...
Something in your post caught my attention, you wrote: "you lose your bearings..." ?
Given Australia's uniquely high soil mineralization; does a regular compass work right there?
GPS?
Parallel to my conditions in the cramped workshop I have here. I have too many magnets, pieces of neodymium (from hard drives).
And on a couple of square meters in that space, neither the compass nor any of the magnetic sensors work properly.
I discovered the other day that the protective case on my iPhone prevents similar apps from working at all!??
I wanted to measure the magnetic field expressed in uT next to the placed sensor, in order to compare the values, the iPhone was "frozen" and I was afraid that it had broken.
Until it occurred to me to take it out of the case.