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Web Game Helps Predict Spread of Epidemics

Posted by samzenpus on from the follow-the-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Using data from the web game wheresgeorge.com, which traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease."

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  1. Oddly enough... by Hindustu · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only dollar bill I remember possessing with the "Where's George" stamp on it came from a man working at a pizza shop with gigantic cold sores.

  2. Obligatory... by mshiltonj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Zombie Infection Simulation Machine!

    Brians! Must eat brains!

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    Software Wars
  3. Re:whereisgeorge took itself offline by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... because they're converting to dollar coins, to help prevent the spread of epidemics.

    This way, you can legally launder your money ...

  4. /. diseases by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe if we give diseases websites and /. them we can wipe them out.

    Now where's my Nobel Prize for mdicine?

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    Engineering is the art of compromise.
  5. i dunno by syle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Using games to track people is tricky though. I did a lot of research on this, and my findings showed that 80% of the population of the world are Night Elf females who just turned 18 and want to chat.

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    /syle