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Why do actuaries refer to workstation/desktop computers with more than 16 cores as “super computers” it’s embarrassing but sometimes I give in an say “the super
by mint2 6y ago
Why do actuaries refer to workstation/desktop computers with more than 16 cores as “super computers” it’s embarrassing but sometimes I give in an say “the super computer” because I’m in a hurry and they’ll give me a blank stare if I call it a workstation or anything like that.
- mark-r 6y agoThey really are supercomputers though. Do you know how much faster a modern PC is compared to say a Cray-1? Especially if it has a decent graphics card.
- ryukafalz 6y agoYeah but at this point my phone is comparable. If being faster than a Cray-1 qualifies something as a supercomputer, the definition is meaningless now.
- mint2 6y agoSo a typical actuary’s technological reference point is stuck in 1985? That explains a lot about excel and sas egp. But seriously, calling a fairly standard computer in the tech world a “supercomputer” is just another example of the underlying attitude in insurance that makes many actuaries recoil in horror about the thought of “programming” aka learning python or any programming best practices.