Sam Robb
@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. “Is it time already?” Rowan fussed with the
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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 Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today Oh how I wish he’d go away. -- William Hughes Mearns This bit of doggerel - or a
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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 sus that
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Hey you! Yeah, you. Want some good books?

If you do, you're in luck—because the BASED BOOK NICHE SALE is going on! Michael Finney (@mdf365, host of The Episodic podcast) has gathered together some of the best indie short story authors out
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Some of Y’all Need Stephenson

I’m noticing interesting things with LLMs - or, rather, with stories about LLMs. “My cousin has a friend at a company and his co-worker…” Yeah, we’re already in Urban Legend territory with language
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AI Bots and the Solution You Don't Want To Hear

"LLMs are reading my work!" is latest chapter in a story as old as the Web itself A few weeks ago, someone asked about the possibility of using “Unicode poisoning” to defeat bots scraping web content

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