Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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Genealogical research meets LLM agents: a swarm of Claude instances spends fifteen hours mining Ancestry.com, reconstructing a family tree and tracking down the exact newspaper clipping that gave the author his middle name.
Gorton, a monoline pantograph-engraving font from George Gorton Machine Company dating to 1902, turns out to be the same face stamped into keyboard keycaps, elevator panels, and countless machined signs across Manhattan, revealed through a years-long photographic hunt.
Joseph Noel Walker @JosephNWalker Andrew Charlton (@Charlton_AB) is the key federal politician shaping Australia's AI strategy. In episode #1 of my 'Compute in Australia' series, he shares his thinking on how Australia can turn compute into sovereign AI -- "the oldest industrial policy trick in the book" -- and
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