Mike Taptich

Carbon County, PA native. Principal Research Scientist @amazon 📦🌎♻️ (Opinions are my own)

[E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer]

Argo AI shutting down is a massive turning point for the entire driving automation technology sector. A seismic event.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting

[Crystal Mountain @CrystalMt]

Woke up to THIS today! ☃️☃️

📸 Shot on @GoPro

[Jeff Forgeron @WeatherJefe]

Pho & ramen advisories issued for the Pacific Northwest. 🌧🍜

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

It is time.

[Mike Taptich @MikeTaptich]

This is just surreal. Are we all good with open-sourcing the science of deep fakes?

[Justin Pinkney @Buntworthy]

Got Imagic running with Stable Diffusion, it's super easy to implement, will share a notebook soon!

Left: Input image, Right: Edited "A photo of Barack Obama smiling big grin"

[Mike Taptich @MikeTaptich]

@gilbeaq Have you heard of Tay, Microsoft’s AI-driven chatbot?

https://t.co/ycnqcDijkX

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

They should do a whole album like this.

[Mike Taptich @MikeTaptich]

We all knew this was vaporware.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Trevor Milton, the founder of the electric truck maker Nikola, was convicted of defrauding investors by boasting of nonexistent technology. https://t.co/yB4swt73b3

[Mike Taptich @MikeTaptich]

My favorite is seeing these style of walls at the @woodlandparkzoo.

[Amazon News EU @AmazonNewsEU]

Amazon today announced plans to invest more than €1 billion over the next five years to further electrify and decarbonize our transportation network across Europe, delivering packages to customers more sustainably. Read more in our blog 👇https://t.co/1aXwBAFAvI

[Costa Samaras @CostaSamaras46]

Energy security comes from energy availability & insulation from global price spikes

• Oil powers 90% of US transport but only 1% of US electricity
• Oil price set on global market
• Oil price spikes ripple through economy
• Diversifying transport with EVs improves security

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Excited to announce start of production of Tesla Semi Truck with deliveries to @Pepsi on Dec 1st!

[Mike Taptich @MikeTaptich]

Wonder why you may tend to nap on planes? Indoor air quality. As CO2 levels rise, you get less and less oxygen in each breath. This can cause you to feel sleepy, tired, or less focused.

[Jim Rosenthal @JimRosenthal4]

This picture was taken yesterday mid-flight from DFW to San Diego. This was the lowest CO2 reading of the flight. It is the worst of any I have measured. About 15 people wearing masks - including the person next to me. (I think he is buying an Aranet4.)

[Mike Taptich @MikeTaptich]

LCAs are conditioned on a wide array of a priori assumptions. View them as a fuzzy decision-making tool, rather than a truth generating process.

Rules of thumb:
(1) Evaluate on order-of-magnitude basis.
(2) Identify trade-offs between impact categories.
(3) Iteratively refine.

[IOP Environment @IOPenvironment]

Does the metric matter? Climate change impacts of light-duty vehicle electrification in the US - the latest publication in our new #ERIS special issue: https://t.co/2tt5c6jg96
#electrification

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Why Brazil's presidential election is crucial for climate change and the Amazon, in one chart

https://t.co/rEcQn17Pd2

[Corinne Scown @cdscown]

Many bioproducts are not carbon-negative when you factor in end-of-life. There are some good strategies for putting carbon back in the ground, but let's not rely on landfills for C storage. We need to engineer for a circular bioeconomy. 🌱🦠♻️ https://t.co/ZLI08L4PYa

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

Nothing says ‘I’m a regular Pennsylvanian’ like sipping a glass of red wine at a tailgate

[Costa Samaras @CostaSamaras46]

Climate change isn’t just an environmental challenge, it’s an everything challenge. It’ll take hard work, but together we can solve it. Every job can be a climate job: STEM, labor, law, finance, policy, community, arts, health, construction, agriculture, industry, etc. Every job.