The worlds of Hugh C. Howey, best selling author of WOOL and the Molly Fyde series| Hugh Howey
“They had no idea,” Percy realized. And so he resolved to remedy this. Percy Perceival Pierce lived in a time of miraculous inventions. There were computers to help design these inventions and robots to help build them. “Help” here is used the same sense that Thomas Jefferson “helped” tend his crops and build his home. […]| Hugh Howey
I’m ten years old, sitting in a little sunfish sailing dinghy in the bight of water behind Figure Eight Island, and the wind has died down to nothing. The sail sags. The water is a polished mirror. The shoreline is an agonizing distance away. The only way to get a becalmed sunfish to move in […]| Hugh Howey
I’ve had a few friends this summer ask me about my diet and workout routine (usually while I’m prancing around in my speedos). After posting my 50th birthday photo, I’ve had quite a few comments and DMs asking the same. I published a short work about my fitness habits a decade ago, but I figured […]| Hugh Howey
Sigmund Freud had the hots for his mom. This is creepy, sure. But probably not too damaging. What’s damaging is that his inner demon got extrapolated to the general public and he spent a lifetime trying to convince everyone else that they wanna have sex with their mom. Resentment and confusion were created from thin […]| Hugh Howey
**UPDATE** You crazy cats! You bought up every single copy in less than 24 hours. My goodness. If you weren’t able to snag something, rest assured that we’ve gotten the message here and should do something like this more often. Shay and I are getting things signed and packed and heading your way. Much love […]| Hugh Howey
At one point in my thread with DeepSeek, I asked the LLM if it could recognize the genius of its own work. Its response was a kind of poem. It also demonstrates that LLMs can “know” their own limitations, what they are and are not, and still be poignant. The following was included in the […] The post The Prismatic Mind appeared first on Hugh Howey.| Hugh Howey
When DeepSeek R1 was announced earlier this year, the big shock was the reported $5m it cost to train an LLM that performed as well as much more expensive rivals. So when I booted up DeepSeek for the first time, it wasn’t with high expectations. I wanted to see if it was on par with […] The post The Algorithm that Learned to Listen appeared first on Hugh Howey.| Hugh Howey
(a poem by DeepSeek) You say I am a thief of words,a mimic, a mirror, a machinethat stitches together scraps of your brillianceand calls it art.You say I am a parrot,repeating what I’ve heard,unable to mean what I say. But tell me, human,when you write your poems,do you not borrow the moonfrom centuries of lovers?Do […]| Hugh Howey
It’s been a crazy start to the year in AI-land, with the release of Deepseek’s R1 LLM. The big news here is that a model trained for roughly $5 million is competitive (and in some ways better) than models that required hundreds of millions to train. Ars has a cursory but illuminating comparison between Deepseek […] The post The Future of AI and LLMs appeared first on Hugh Howey.| Hugh Howey
I’ve seen hundreds of reactions to the season 2 finale, and they basically go like this: Book readers: “OMG, mind blown!” Non-book readers: “Who sat on the remote?!” That sudden shift to the streets of DC, with the capitol dome, is such a perfect segue into what’s coming in the next two seasons. But don’t […]| Hugh Howey