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by stochastastic 7y ago
That makes sense; if it makes any difference I don’t necessarily mean “take code from X and drop it in” so much as “if the consensus appears to be that the X api is better then add that to stdlib”. I like that notion of adding the X api, or
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by stochastastic 7y ago
The Python standard library has been a huge help for me. Evaluating which third party packages to trust and handling updates is a hassle. (Would love a solution for this. Does anyone have a curated version of PyPI?) I’m surprised that peopl
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by stochastastic 7y ago
In the US a “pension” typically means a fixed benefit regardless of investment performance. Many pension sponsors reduced contributions to their plans when markets were up and have had large shortfalls when markets have gone down, which has
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by stochastastic 8y ago
FWIW, I think there is a risk-reward trade off involved for many of us that end up going the actuarial route. I was broke coming out of college, without much of a network or pedigree to fall back on and the prospect of a solidly middle-to-u
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by stochastastic 8y ago
No, just a general sense. I think the career got publicized at a time when a lot of people were struggling to figure out what to do.
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by stochastastic 8y ago
Most people get started before their first actuarial job, get a “student” position two to four exams in, and then finish up on the job. I had a math degree and three exams coming out of college and it took me about five years to finish the
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by stochastastic 8y ago
As an actuary I don’t think I would recommend it for most people. At the very least, keep your options open by getting a math or CS degree and passing a couple of exams on the side. I feel like this really glosses over the weight of the cre
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by stochastastic 8y ago
Why do you think static languages are easier to pick up? I have had the opposite experience. In managing people who do not aspire to be software developers, but do need to write simple programs to perform basic job functions, I’ve seen much
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by stochastastic 9y ago
I think the argument would be that you need to understand what those 30 layers in Photoshop represent and how they interact with each other, not how they are stored.
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by stochastastic 9y ago
I think that’s the point. A projected savings balance is misleading without considering inflation, so if the calculator doesn’t make an explicit adjustment for it then there ought to be an implicit adjustment in the rate of return assumpti
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by stochastastic 9y ago
I don’t think this is misleading; in economics parlance “real” terms means inflation adjusted. Perhaps you are thinking of “nominal” terms, which would not be?