Skip Terpstra

Producer into Aerospace+Transpo, New Media+Commerce, Building Arts, Futurism, Nature & the Absurd

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

I'm so excited that our @theworldlabs team has achieved a major milestone today! Introducing Atlas - a first of its kind multimodal world model trained from scratch! 🚀

Atlas is capable of generating frames with pixel-perfect camera control, reconstructing large scenes from as few as one single input image, simulating space-time by reframing videos, natively outputting 3D spaces from one or more input images, composing multiple posed images into a consistent 3d world, and more! This is the best camera conditioned world model ever, opening doors to many possible use cases from VFX to robotics. I'm so so so proud of our team!♥️

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Clearest image of Mars ever taken

[Kentskooking @kentskooking]

Rain brings new life, fire cleanses the old growth and the cycle continues

Made in comfyui
Sound via google musixFX and stableaudio 2.0

[Mia Stålnacke @AngryTheInch]

This is how the aurora moves.
Filmed in real-time, overhead one winter night.
Not sped up, not slowed down.
What you see is what my eyes saw. 😍
I bet many of you, after this weekend, have a newfound understanding of why we stay out all night in -35°C!

[Waymo @Waymo]

Our safe and deliberate approach to scaling the Waymo Driver is gaining traction, as we’re now serving more than 50,000 paid trips every week across three major cities. Thank you to our riders for trusting us to get you to your destinations safely and reliably.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

#Today in 1983, IBM introduced the IBM Personal Computer XT, which stands for eXtended Technology.

For a price of $4,995, it featured a Intel 8088 processor, a 10MB hard drive, eight expansion slots, serial port, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM.

[Paul Brinkmann @PaulBrinkmann]

#breaking - FAA issues its first G-1 airworthiness criteria for an electric air taxi to @JobyAviation ... Company tells me via email "no design changes are required to our aircraft"... #evtol #advancedairmobility #faa

[TrafficTrish 🚁 @TrishJewison]

Never gets old #Vancouver 🤩

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

In 1987, countries around the world signed the Montreal Protocol to reduce emissions of substances that deplete the ozone layer.

Since then these emissions have fallen by more than 99%.

from our page on the ozone layer, which we just updated & redesigned https://t.co/D2413rtB3I

[ArchDaily @ArchDaily]

Nomino Takayuka House / Kazuto Nishi Architects https://t.co/KHKfqrfxjp

[Candela | Electric hydrofoil boats @CandelaBoat]

It’s now official!

We’ve raised $20M to unlock fast, electric, sustainable transport for the world’s waterways. The new investment will be used to bring our electric high-speed Candela P-12 shuttle ferry to serial production.

Learn more: https://t.co/0eiPUkVIgz

[Dezeen @dezeen]

Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen develops modular building system to address the global housing crisis: https://t.co/zmtViOdgw2

[Matthew Johnson @KSL_Matt]

California’s second largest reservoir was down to its lowest levels ever recorded in September 2021 (628’). Incessant parades of atmospheric rivers have almost refilled the 3.5 million acre-foot reservoir by March 2023 (845’). Lake Oroville, CA recovered 217 FEET!

📸: @CA_DWR

[Paul Eremenko @PaulEremenko]

So this happened today.. first test flight of the world's biggest hydrogen fuel cell airliner, powered by green hydrogen. It's been a very long, epic day. More deets tomorrow!

[ArchDaily @ArchDaily]

Three Summits Residence / NÓS https://t.co/8altjnEYSs

[Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt]

What happens if this technology cannot be completely controlled? What if there will always be ways to generate falsehoods, false pictures and fake videos, and people will never learn to disbelieve what they see and hear?
https://t.co/iVkVwlorXU

[ArchDaily @ArchDaily]

Gather House / Story Architecture https://t.co/ShAJesBsd6

[Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina]

I observed some very interesting striated aurora around 11:40 pm AKST on 2-14-23. Here is a real-time video of that formation. It's almost hypnotizing.