Re: virus: Hello and thanks for the fish

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:44:16 GMT


At 23:37 22/01/97 -0800, Tim wrote:

> I wonder, has anyone seem any good mathematical models of meme
>transmission or spread through a given ideasphere? Any hints as to where
>to start looking?

Well, it'd have to be... disease-spread models, population dynamics,
populations of replicating organisms competing for resource... Anyone know
any URLs or newsgroups I could look in for this sort of stuff?

Dave Pape
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