Archive for comics
compression artifacts
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags because it's Friday, comics, solar system, space, space exploration, video compresion, Voyager, xkcd on January 22, 2021 by xi'an
probability comparisons
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics with tags calibration, comics, frequentism, scaling, xkcd on November 6, 2020 by xi'an
appel du 18 juin
Posted in Statistics with tags 18 juin 1940, appel du 18 juin, BBC, Charles de Gaulle, comics, De Gaulle à la plage, French resistance, Jean-Yves Ferri, satire, Winston Churchill, WW II on June 18, 2020 by xi'an
at last the type IX error
Posted in Statistics with tags comics, false discovery rate, Neyman-Pearson tests, significance test, testing of hypotheses, Type I error, Type II error, xkcd on May 11, 2020 by xi'an
Les Indes Fourbes [book review]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags bédé, book review, comics, conquistadors, De Cap et De Croc, Francisco de Quevedo, Indes, Le Monde, Spanish Conquest on October 6, 2019 by xi'an
Among the pile of Le Monde issues I found when I came back from Japan, I spotted a rather enthusiastic review of a bédé (comics) by Alain Ayroles and Juanjo Guarnido called les Indes Fourbes, which is the pastiche of the continuation of a 16th century picaresque (Spanish) novel El Buscon by Francisco de Quevedo. While picaresque novels often end up being overwhelming by the endless inclusion of stories within stories, this one is quite amazing and does not suffer from its length (200 pages) or the continuation of switches in the plot, the end being particularly terrific. The author of the scenario also wrote the De Cape and De Croc series, which I enjoyed and which takes place at about the same time, inspired from Cyrano de Bergerac and his trip to the Moon. The drawings are however made by another author, more in tune with the story and quite elaborate. Definitely enjoyable!
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