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Robin Sloan
ROLE FICTION AUTHORMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN AUGUST 31, 2026
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Robin Sloan is an American fiction author based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley of California. He is the author of the novels Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, and Moonbound, and has written fiction and commentary for publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and MIT Technology Review. He is also the co-founder of Fat Gold, a California extra virgin olive oil producer, and maintains active projects in creative computing and AI on GitHub, including experiments with recurrent neural networks for writing tools.
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mention·Jack Clark from Import AI·AUGUST 31, 2026
“Robin Sloan was playing around with RNNs and writing back in 2016 — incredible foresight.”
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