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

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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:
 

Masque of the red death is an edgar allan poe story.

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

   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.
  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.
  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?

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Not a lot of Cthulu cultists here I suspect.
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If you have ever read Charles Stross's 'Laundry files' he parodies just about every SF/horror author going.
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Highly recommended if you have worked in IT.

Thank you will have a look. Currently reading More than human. I enjoy it! Nothing beats the golden age of science fiction. Most, if not all, modern science fiction pales in comparison.