Antoine Valot

Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.

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23.06.2025 22:36 — 👍 2926    🔁 430    💬 19    📌 16

Steun onze nieuwe rechtszaak tegen Shell Wij starten een nieuwe Klimaatzaak tegen Shell. We willen dat Shell stopt met het aanboren van nieuwe olie- en gasvelden. Want voor het klimaat is elk nieuw veld er 1 te veel. En jij kan meedoen. Laat...

Shell has 700 new oil and gas fields worldwide. That is why Milieudefensie is launching a new lawsuit against Shell with the requirement that Shell stop drilling new oil and gas fields. Support - just like me - this important new Climate case and become a supporter: bit.ly/share-wordsu...

12.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Actually, it sails upwind out of spite. Boats are bitter and petty.

23.05.2025 05:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This feels oddly familiar!

15.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

10.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 7984    🔁 2681    💬 320    📌 166