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by p33p 8y ago
Professor Christensen says it better than I ever could: “Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth. Feelings that you are making a meaningful contribution to work arise from intrinsic cond
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by p33p 8y ago
Completely worthless is in the context of my degree in actuarial science. As someone else said, it’s an exam prep major. I learned more problem solving and critical thinking skills in mathematics, and I’ve found that much more helpful in my
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by p33p 8y ago
By all means, if you can get through the exams, you will be left with a low stress, well paying job at an insurance company, and you’ll likely have great job security. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But as Christensen talks ab
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by p33p 8y ago
They would be better off getting exposure to anything and everything related to finance, statistics, and operations research. Actuarial science specific topics include pricing and reserving of insurance products. I would love to see more CS
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by p33p 8y ago
You are correct, and I view it as an attempt to remain relevant in an area they feel threatened by. We will see what the exam ends up being like, but I have little faith in the SOA being able successful test someone’s experience in “predict
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by p33p 8y ago
I would be really impressed if someone with an actuarial science degree has any experience with machine learning. That is not a skill that is taught outside of self learning or an absolute need. It may be more applicable in a property casua
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by p33p 8y ago
As an actuary, I can not recommend it to anyone with a technical background. I have degrees in mathematics and actuarial science, and I consider my actuarial science degree completely worthless. A mathematics and/or computer science de
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by p33p 8y ago
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright is a good read. I think it’s important to understand morals/religion in historical context, and Wright does a great job of adding this context and how religion has developed over the centuries.
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Best Practices for Scientific Computing (2014)(journals.plos.org)
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Ask HN: Advice on how to have quality, productive 1-1’s with your manager?
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R Markdown: The Definitive Guide(bookdown.org)
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Ask HN: Is there an excel spreadsheet style guide similar to code style guides?
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by p33p 8y ago
Here are some links that may help solve your problems. Comparing spreadsheets is standard since Excel 2013. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/compare-two-version... Power Query may be of use to automate ETL
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by p33p 8y ago
Mind sharing which blogs and newsletters?
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Ask HN: Resources for learning written and verbal communication best practices?
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by p33p 8y ago
Dell XPS 15 9560 model, with Intel's quad-core i7 7700HQ processor, 32 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics chip. Is it really a hardware issue though? Seems more like a MacOS vs Windows problem.
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Ask HN: How does your team handle onboarding new employees?
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As HN: What makes a good mentor?
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by p33p 8y ago
Your second question is what I would really like answered.
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Ask HN: What is the “TidyVerse” of other programming languages?
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Ask HN: What is the best technology privacy guide?
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by p33p 9y ago
100% recommend discourse for this. It is what Hugo uses, and I find it very useful and well laid out. Example: https://discourse.gohugo.io/
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Ask HN: Resources to Learn Functional Programming?
50 points by p33p 9y ago|19 comments
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by p33p 9y ago
I honestly enjoy Axios as a starter for news. They are relatively unbiased, gives me what I need to know, and tells me why it's important. If something has peaked my interest more, I'll turn towards WaPo, NYT, etc for further in d
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by p33p 9y ago
I would go as far as saying the tidyverse is an essential piece of working with R. Base R sans tidyverse is not a pleasant experience.
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by p33p 9y ago
And don’t over use viz. Pictures do effectively communicate, but often people visualize without understanding. The result is pretty pictures that eventually people realize communicate little effective domain insight. You’d be surprised tha
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Why Digital Strategies Fail(mckinsey.com)
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by p33p 9y ago
They is referring to Evan's inner circle at Snap I assume.
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by p33p 9y ago
I wish it wasn't such a clickbait title as the information in the article is pretty interesting. From an investor perspective I don't see how Snapchat is appealing at all. The general numbers provided here only reaffirm my opinion
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by p33p 9y ago
I'm also very interested in hearing the answer to this.

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