@SamRobbWrites

A Teller of Tales. Husband, father, teacher, tech startup developer. Former Presidential candidate.

 Pittsburgh, PA
samrobbwrites.substack.com/
Joined April 2019
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Invitation

This is a short piece I wrote for one of our bonfire invitations years ago. It’s a favorite of mine for a number of reasons. I hope you like it as well.

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Notes on SCIP (the Small Child Interaction Protocol)

A few years ago, our trip to/from the Outer Banks for vacation involved a 10+ hour car trip in each direction. As a result, I found myself in an excellent position to study and take notes on the Small…

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Finding Yehudi

Originally posted Feb 29, 2008

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On the Making of Sausage: Bible Translations in a Fictional World

I don’t think I’ve made a secret of the fact that the setting for A Sense of Murder is a post-Roman, post-Christian world. There’s enough oblique references in the book that most readers will su…

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Hey you! Yeah, you. Want some good books?

Michael Finney (@mdf365, host of The Episodic podcast) has gathered together some of the best indie short story authors out there.

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Some of Y’all Need Stephenson

I’m noticing interesting things with LLMs - or, rather, with stories about LLMs.

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AI Bots and the Solution You Don't Want To Hear

A few weeks ago, someone asked about the possibility of using “Unicode poisoning” to defeat bots scraping web content for use in AI training. The idea is pretty straightforward. You find similar c…

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