Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/

Generalist writer-educator. Perennial student of science, economics and history
PhD @MaastrichtU, alum @LundUniversity, @CEU, @UNUmerit

Also, @wrybawesome

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Every so often, the 'invisible' hand of the market flickers into view, like an erratic apparition, teasing Economics students and teachers everywhere.
#teaching #Economics101 #prices #supply #demand #telecom #Brexit #shipping

https://t.co/feERunGX45
https://t.co/KQw6LW7JwB

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Is there a way to be smarter than AI *while* it is improving rapidly? In 5 years, will you be AI's coworker or supervisor?

This youtube channel is looking for a small #seedfunding.

#ArtificialIntelligence #Careers #education #GPT4 #ChatGPT #Bard

https://t.co/5lPZdCsO7c

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

White House Chief of Staff, US ambassador to UK and CIA London Chief are talking on the porch. About 2 men, POTUS and PM, aircraft carriers and West Asia. Does that clear the #BechdelTest? I think it makes the test seem a quaint relic. If only. #TheDiplomatNetflix #womeninpower

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Global labor markets could be just as directly affected by what GPT-4, Bard, #LLMs cannot do - manual work with hands

https://t.co/rFCSJBA7ko

#GPT4 #Bard #artificialintellegence #labormarket #BlueCollar #economicimpact #economics #researchQuestion #jobs #India #industrialPolicy

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Now consider:

You could fund your preferred #Mastodon instance for much lower than $8 per user.

Media outlets could run theirs free with optional subscription for un-paywalled links!

The model is also a better fit for micropayments to creators!

Why didn't we start with this?

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

The absence of algorithms pushing 'topics' like celebrities and cats into your feed at #mastodon is refreshing!

Many of the accounts you care about might already be replicated there to ease the transition in twitter's last days...

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

There we go. I can look forward to the reboot of my favorite foreign tv show - #impeachment hearings in the US Congress - without the prospect of a Biden conviction.

And what a great ensemble cast it'll be too!

[NPR Politics @nprpolitics]

#BREAKING: Republicans have won enough seats to take control of the House, per an AP race call, setting up a narrow GOP majority and ushering in a new era of divided government in Washington. https://t.co/lRZHuFFP8l

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Wrote about a comparison between consumer choices in packaged food and news media:
#journalism #regulation
https://t.co/dUvF6R12UX

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

@TIME person of the year is going to be Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, isn't he?

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

#AffirmativeAction is complex and I've yo-yoed between ways to achieve its goals, but using Brown v Board of Education to overturn interim precedent is more shocking than anything that's occurred in the USA in recent years. Yes, anything.
https://t.co/SQu1ExMcPE

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

The end of this is the most bizarre thing I’ve seen since Liz Truss’s press conference. Which doesn’t bode well.

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Hope somewhere, TV writers are taking notes for their scripts in development... Hope to see an #SFX 'artist's rendition' of this in the background on the next intergalactic sci-fi show set in #space. Black Holes are so 2014!
#mswl @netflix @DisneyPlus

[Judy Schmidt @SpaceGeck]

Nope, I don't know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I'm sure we'll find out more later.

h/t to @yuvharpaz & @JWSTPhotoBot

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Only. In. Sports.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

THIS. 🫶🥹

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

The biggest challenge to research in animal cognition besides ethics and unempathetic study design:

"It's extremely common to restrict the amount of food available to... animals for weeks before and during neuroscience studies to motivate them" #animalintelligence #consciousness

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

If you’ve ever felt that you can’t focus on a task when you’re hungry — or that all you can think about is food — the neural evidence backs you up. But your brain’s adaptations to long-term food deprivation go deeper than you think. https://t.co/8xEVR8gdAJ

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

Something very arresting about Climate Change baring relics of the past... Almost chiding us to take a serious look back and introspect.

War shipwrecks in Europe:
https://t.co/IarlVFNgv6

Dinosaur fossils in Texas:
https://t.co/OunjDAHUKn

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

How old were you on your first job?

This is the best idea yet... in child labor! Get paid to just 'take a stroll', being adorable, giving out hugs.

#eldercare #childcare #Japan #babies #winwin #loneliness #oxytocin #solutions #policyideas

https://t.co/b9Cl72owpt

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

New Post on the @Effect_Altruism forum on North-Atlantic bias
https://t.co/o0Hra7Hh7r

Written in a Red Teaming spirit, it is less balanced a critique of global economy than I share with students
#EffectiveAltruism #trade #capitalism #inequality #EconTwitter #EnvironmentalJustice

[Sach Wry /sʌtʃ raɪ/ @sachwry]

It's these small touches on @forallmankind_:

Molly Cobb lost her eyesight rescuing a colleague from a solar storm on the moon. When NASA HQ is bombed, Molly uses her ‘disability’ to guide survivors to safety in low visibility! 🦯🛐
#DisabilityTwitter #blindness #differentlyabled

[Ribosome for the awesome @wrybawesome]

In the 21st century, humans are still 'reinventing the wheel'... And of course we should!
#Engineering #automotive #progress #innovation #technology #Optimism #Cars

Germany:
https://t.co/Y5FdOT4sr1

Turkey:
https://t.co/NYsWc8Rr5h