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  • Table It in Microsoft Excel
    Table It in Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel Tables are excellent for manipulating data. This article ... convince you of the advantages of referring to table data by column name. Instead of referring to data ...
    • Authors: Paul Margus
    • 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
  • Tables Database goes XtbML part 2
    Actuaries. Data warehousing;Computer science;Mortality rates;Morbidity rates By Steve Strommen In Part ... the technical issues that arose in adapting the Table Manager software to use the XtbML file format. One ...
    • Authors: Stephen Strommen
    • Date: Jul 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • GPUs: How We Went From Zombie Blood Splatter To Financial Projections
    benchmarks of insurance projections using Oliver Wyman’s ATLAS software platform. What Is A GPU? A GPU is effectively ... CPU cores. In order to utilize the GPU your program(s) must be (re)written to do so. Interaction Between ...
    • Authors: Chris Stiefeling
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Letter From The Editors
    Tables can effectively manage data in his article “Table it in Microsoft Excel” and even shares his example ... Don’t miss Steve Craighead’s article about how to create a Ring of Fire using R’s spatial modeling package ...
    • Authors: Andrew Chan, Richard Junker
    • 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
  • Introduction to Using Graphical Processing Units for Variable
    slower than no GPUs at all! Building a variable annuity guarantee model is way differ- ent than building ... describe different aspects of modeling a variable annuity guarantee. The third part of the article will ...

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    • Authors: Bryon Robidoux
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Unblocking Blockchain
    Unblocking Blockchain Interest in ... blockchain is high among insurers and reinsurers. While it’s not universally useful the technology does merit continued ...

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    • Authors: Ross Campbell, Ingemar Svensson
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experts Debate Minus-28 Fix for Y2K
    issue in the Technology Update Section. Some Year 2000 Problem expertsare asserting that neutralizing theMillennium ... used it,” said Eli Dabich, presi- dent of Synergy 2000, a Y2K remediation company based in Pasadena, Calif ...

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    • Authors: Ara C Trembly
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software