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  • Letter from the Editors
    upon a “bag-of-words” model. The example from Arthur’s illustration is rooted in the finance discipline, ... Craighead relates the applicability of PPR to mortality tables and principle-based reserves. Paul Ramirez ...
    • Authors: Mark D Africa, Paul Ramirez
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Data warehousing
  • Using Excel to Prototype Relational Database Applications
    lngStartTime As Long Dim cmd As New ADODB.Command Dim s As String Dim sSQL As String Dim I As Integer lngStartTime ... Properties").Value = "Excel 8.0" 'If you 'use Excel '2000, this is correct; Excel 2002 is 9.0, etc. .Open ...

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    • Authors: David Snell
    • Date: May 2004
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Digest of Smaller Company Forum
    have wasted money on marginal schemes. MR. JOHN S. MOYSE: My experience has been that persistency ele- ... revised at the time of adoption of the 1958 CSO Mortality Table? MRS. ANNA MARIA RAPPAPORT: Standard Security ...

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    • Authors: William L Barber, Ralph E Edwards, Melvin L Gold, J Stanley Hill, George E Immerwahr, Robert H Jordan, Morton J Kent, John S Moyse, Anna M Rappaport, Courtland C Smith, W Tris Stevens, Ralph G Swail, Robert C Tookey, Irwin T Vanderhoof, James G Bruce, Reuben I Jacobson
    • Date: Oct 1963
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Life Insurance; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Abstractions & Working Effectively Alongside Artificial Intelligence
    language (a language whose syntax consists of 0’s and 1’s). In software development, one can identify ... the formula for a European call on an underlying S with strike K in the generalized Black-Scholes5 ...

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    • Authors: Dodzi Attimu, Bryon Robidoux
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Introduction to Distributed Computing
    Additionally, it is important to minimize I N P U T D A T A O U T P U T D A T A Map ( ) Map ( ) Map ( ) ... Stage 16 (Attempt 0) Total Time Across All Tasks: 0.1 s Input Size / Records: 1088.0 B / 4 Shuffle Read: 3 ...

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    • Authors: Jason Altieri
    • Date: Apr 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Letter From The Chair
    Letter From The Chair It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We sponsored a variety of ... offered several webcasts. ; By J. Eddie Smith, IV It’s been an active year for the Technology Section. We ...
    • Authors: John Smith
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Why Actuaries Should Start Paying Attention to Python
    commanded by astronaut John Glenn into orbit. IBM’s FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) programming language ... tailored for specific purposes, such as Facebook’s “React” for web programming or R for statistical analysis ...
    • Authors: Andrew Webster
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Innovators & Entrepreneurs
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Applying FinTech and IT Practices to Building Actuarial Models
    your calculation engine. Adding or expanding a table or adding a new switch should require no coding ... compute mortality for every benefit on a policy, it might be much more efficient to compute mortality once ...

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    • Authors: Michael Sullivan, Igor Nikitin
    • Date: Nov 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Cloud Computing For Actuaries - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS—What Do These Mean And Why Do I Care?
    about cloud computing. They sound very similar and it’s very easy to assume since they are all related to ... service levels, and overall value implications. Let’s explore the case of actuarial modeling software to ...
    • Authors: Van Beach
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Simple and Effective Reserve Practices
    Weights = (XTX)−1XT y Applying this to the table below, the proposed future weights for these methods ... s/. Gamage, J., J. Linfield, K. Ostaszewski and S. Siegel. (2007, Oct. 31). Statistical Methods for ...

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    • Authors: Christopher Coulter, Dale Cap, Kevin McCoy
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Technology & Applications>Computer science