o_safadinho

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by o_safadinho 10y ago
It doesn't even have to be regulated per se. For example, Economists aren't regulated the way that actuaries are, but they still have widely agreed upon format and process for how to get people from grad school to employment. It d
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
I'm not sure about Mathematics, but for Statistics the American Statistical Association hold the 'Joint Statistical Meeting' every year. It is part continuing education classes, research presentations and career fair. Every y
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
You obviously wouldn't take an actuarial exam if you don't plan on working in Insurance. However, if you do plan doing something like predictive modeling for an insurance company then it would have to do it. Both the SOA and the C
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
I read the article correctly. They don't call it homework in the article and instead decide to use the term "data challenge". You can call it whatever you want it is the same thing. It is also split in to four parts and takes
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
I guess the problem comes that especially outside of tech, they don't have independent technical screens, the company reads your paper. If we stick with AirBnB here is a posting they made with the AEA ( https://www.aeaweb.org
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
For one thing, there is a reason that "The Professions" were standardized. At one point in history, there was way less regulation for a lot of professions. But then people had problems with insurance companies becoming insolvent a
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
All of the above do have various sub-specialties. The problem is that even the CS specialties (A.I./Machine Learning/Data Mining) still don't really conform with the other fields that I mentioned. Generalized Linear Modeling
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by o_safadinho 10y ago
How does that explain INFORMS for Operations Research? WWII was the catalyst for a lot of technical research. It spawned the birth of the modern computer with Turing and it also saw the birth or what is now considered modern Operations Rese
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Ask HN: Why isn't there a professional body for Computer Science?
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