Links

Links for Apr 19, 2026

1. "Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine"
2. "Why Communist reforms nearly always failed - Works in Progress Magazine"
3. "Escaping the Ogallala trap - Works in Progress Magazine"
4. "This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts"
5. "How Australia really stopped the boats - Works in Progress Magazine"
6. "Guest Opinion: What we learned after producing play written by AI"

   Lot of people are working on how to use LLMs effectivey in writing prose (as opposed to code) - see Gwern, romance mass production novelists, this article, etc. Mostly around the harness layer, tho they (except for Gwern) might not phrase it that way Prob low hanging fruit in cross applying learnings & techniques from coding harnesses to prose

7. "The Richest Place(s) on Earth" "Apple turns to hardware veteran Ternus as CEO to succeed Cook in AI age"

   [11:50 PM, 4/20/2026] Veer