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by bernardv 6y ago
This laundry list of features still does not tell me why I should be using clojure over any other language.
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by bernardv 6y ago
I love being able to swear profusely in three languages - it confuses the hell out of people.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Totally agree! Flash and Actionscript were great and allowed both coders and non-coders to produce polished applications/animations/simulations quickly. I would choose Actionscript over Javascript any day of the week for that matt
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by bernardv 6y ago
Loved VB and VBA but it is too limiting when needing advanced numerical capabilities. Back in the day had to create add-ins making use of compiled Matlab code to get access to decent numerical routines. Eventually moved to Python and never
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by bernardv 6y ago
Loved the post. I spent more than a year trying to pull a prominent reinsurer on the rock, out of spreadsheet hell, and into the modern age. Baby step #1 would have been to transfer critical data to a database environment and baby step #2 w
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by bernardv 6y ago
UofG in the mid 90’s.. I remember those days, when Gopher ruled.
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by bernardv 6y ago
It’s taken a while.. I bought a TI with MicroPython in France a few years ago- bought at the local supermarket of all places
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by bernardv 6y ago
ResolverOne was an amazing product. It is too bad it never gained much support. Microsoft’s support of IronPython was half-hearted and it never realized its full potential. I don’t get excited for anything Microsoft does these days. MS simp
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by bernardv 6y ago
Let it be a black hole.
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by bernardv 6y ago
He can’t undo the sh*t he sowed
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by bernardv 6y ago
This is a common experience with a lot of expats, diplomatic or not. Very similar experiences here and I hear the same from my expat friends. Forever ‘in transit’ and there’s no going home.
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by bernardv 6y ago
How are these ballons flights managed, in relation to airspace? Given the increasing restrictions on drone flight, I’m surprised such balloons are allowed to wander and descend Without any control.
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by bernardv 6y ago
What a disaster this administration is - literally taking the US backward deep into the Trump cave. I experienced great joy showing up at the US consulate to return my green card with a great big F-U smile on my face. Good riddance.
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by bernardv 6y ago
Yet the models exist and are routinely used to evaluate and price that risk.
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by bernardv 6y ago
It does work in the real world. It is a risk that is covered by insurers and reinsurers as well as capital market investors. The World Bank’s pandemic bond paid-out in response to the Covid-19 event as it was designed to (that bond was crit
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by bernardv 6y ago
There’s an insurance product for that. Pandemic insurance is available for businesses - it is a cost that will, by definition, not likely pay back. But if an event occurs it will pay out as expected. Human behavior is such that only about 1
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by bernardv 6y ago
Very nice - thank-you. Easy to use, great content.
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by bernardv 6y ago
A reflection of the very old-fashioned world of insurance underwriting and contract wording. Legal world is just as antiquated.
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by bernardv 6y ago
I don’t get it.. Why?
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by bernardv 6y ago
Creative use of Dash!
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by bernardv 6y ago
Great article. I learned a bunch of things I didn’t know about Numpy and Clojure. As far as I’m concerned the Dragan does rock.
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by bernardv 7y ago
Quite appaling. This looks like a Ycombinator company given the board composition.
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Naborly: Taking advantage of Coronavirus to drum-up business(torontonews.online)
4 points by bernardv 7y ago|1 comments
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by bernardv 7y ago
The problem is that the Wild West and unnecessary complexity has just been shifted up a level or two as devs are now facing the Wild West of frameworks, de ops has turned into a monster with an unnecessary large toolbox.
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by bernardv 7y ago
Very little details on the methodology
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by bernardv 7y ago
Very nice - also serves as a visual representation of the confusing fragmentation of web technologies. Many batteries - none included!
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by bernardv 7y ago
The choice of distribution is subjective, especially if you little data to start with and are going on theoretical grounds. Agree on expected shortfall/TVaR.
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by bernardv 7y ago
Oh yes you can. The insurance and reinsurance actuaries, and regulators, have done this for a very long time.
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by bernardv 7y ago
The insurance industry is notoriously afraid of transparency, and the state-based rate filing system makes it too easy to divide and conquer. This is an industry ripe for disruption via total transparency.
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by bernardv 7y ago
Thanks for the link. Just ‘flipped’ through the first few pages and my blood pressure is already way up.. the guy just can’t help himself antagonize his readers. It’s going to be a tough read..

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