Re: "DeepSeek" - China AI App Shakes Up Tech Markets

On 02/02/2025 10:46, D wrote:

  On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 2/1/25 7:35 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 20:10:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Masque of the red death is an edgar allan poe story.

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Doctorow took the title and theme into the 21st century.

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 I mostly remember Poe ... and I think there
 was a Brit horror flik with Vincent Price
 that didn't stick very closely to the Poe story.
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 As slowly revealed, Poe was a real polymath who
 delved into all sorts of subjects including
 sci/tech and astronomy. The ghoulish stories
 were just a profitable sideline.
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 To this day nobody knows what killed him. The
 theory he was a major addict was the invention
 of a hated rival news reporter.

 I thought the prevailing theory is that he still walks among us? Apparently one of his private projects looking into immortality bore fruit, and he became immortal.
 Now what about Lovecraft? Any love for Lovecraft in this group?

Not a lot of Cthulu cultists here I suspect.
If you have ever read Charles Stross's 'Laundry files' he parodies just about every SF/horror author going.
Highly recommended if you have worked in IT.
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     “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
     ― Leo Tolstoy