Lascu Simona

global citizen

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Recent Layoff Announcements:

1. UPS: 48,000 employees
2. Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
3. Intel: 24,000 employees
4. Nestle: 16,000 employees
5. Accenture: 11,000 employees
6. Ford: 11,000 employees
7. Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees
8. Microsoft: 7,000 employees
9. PwC: 5,600 employees
10. Salesforce: 4,000 employees
11. Paramount: 2,000 employees
12. Target: 1,800 employees
13. Kroger: 1,000 employees
14. Applied Materials: 1,444 employees
15. Meta: 600 employees

The labor market is clearly weakening.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an IPO valued at up to $1 TRILLION.

This would be the 2nd biggest IPO in history, only behind Saudi Aramco.

[Anthony Peter Rushton @Astronomer]

I’ve never been a coldplay fan, but this week I’m like a sky full of star - or at least that’s what my HR manager says 🤣

[Mashable @mashable]

How to clean solar panels without wasting any water

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

In case you missed today's #GoogleIO keynote presentation, we summed it up for you

[terence @researchremora]

Can't believe I haven't done this. This is Machu Picchu, Peru, which needs no introduction.

#rayvista-#rayshader joint adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

A forest cover map of Romania using 2019 data.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

A forest cover map of South America using data from 2019.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[Bloomberg Work Shift @thefuture]

The world's largest trial of the four-day work week finds a majority of companies are making the shift https://t.co/l8zlSICYAm

[Lascu Simona @SimonaLascu]

Awesome

[terence @researchremora]

As requested by @jmcastagnetto, here's a shaded relief map of Perú. :)

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

A shaded relief map of the United Kingdom.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

What a difference a projection makes!

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[Lascu Simona @SimonaLascu]

I love this

[terence @researchremora]

Today's shaded relief map is România.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

This evening's shaded relief map is Latvia.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

Day 5 of #30DayMapChallenge: Ukraine. Here's a population density map of Ukraine.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[terence @researchremora]

Day 20 of #30DayMapChallenge: My favourite... Shaded relief maps of Africa (left) and South America (right).

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[Lascu Simona @SimonaLascu]

And 3D density map of Romania

[terence @researchremora]

In #rayshader news and to keep the streak going, here's a population density map of Romania.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[Lascu Simona @SimonaLascu]

3D density map of Peru! So cool

[terence @researchremora]

And as requested via DM, here's a population density map of Perú. Am unsure about the labels—I think they are correct but it's hard for me to tell. Would label Trujillo but there are too many spikes and I don't want to get it wrong. 😋

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

[Forbes @Forbes]

Global surveillance is increasing, with governments requesting almost 40% more user data from Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft during 2020 than in the year before. https://t.co/R2dVMuQF4s

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Harmonizing human-robot interactions for a ‘new and weird’ world of work - Clara Vu and Rod Brooks explains at TC Session: Robotics

https://t.co/1mgjQoqwOL