I was having a conversation with a colleague about the lack of performance in actuarial models the other day. We started talking about the Academy's Interest Rate Generator (AIRG). Was it performant? My colleague argued that it calculates 10,000 scenarios in twenty minutes. That's over eight scenarios a second! He could run it multiple times in a day if he needed! I was not impressed. but it's hard to convince an actuary without some numbers backing it up.
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Thanks everyone who sent me links and recommendations this week. If you stumble across something interesting, send it my way! You can send any recommendations to links@houstonp.com.
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Thanks everyone who sent me links and recommendations this week. If you stumble across something interesting, send it my way! You can send any recommendations to links@houstonp.com.
[Read More]Aside from the random items I stumble across, I've been intentional this week about seeking out information on culture, leadership, and motivation.
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[Read More]I'm hoping the holidays give me more time to explore some concepts I've been wrestling with related to financial projections and valuation. More details to come.
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[Read More]I do plan on writing articles that are more than newsletters and have a few in the pipeline. Be sure to be on the lookout for those.
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[Read More]I've been contemplating publishing a newsletter for some time now. I started sharing links here or there to one or two individuals, but it has grown to a larger and larger group of people. It's been difficult to remember who I've sent what and how to decide what to send who. It's come to this: sharing everything I've found interesting over the last week.
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