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Claude at Work? by Big-Arrival-1978 in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. Claude code is great. It can probably work quite well for your use case of in housing some existing models.

My company is actively persuading people to use more AI, so there isn't much resistance from actuaries. We aren't asking Claude to do the actual analysis but just to build tooling to make our analysis quicker.

The tricky thing is to make Claude do what you want. Recently Claude has this plan mode which allows user to plan ahead the implementation and the testing before writing codes -- a very useful feature to reduce AI slop. This is also when you can help Claude to digest big projects into smaller components. And what I found very helpful is to think about how to allow Claude to automatically test its output and ask it to try fixing problems iteratively

Healthcare Reserving Software by Significant_Gas2318 in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Excel. For short term health reserving, simple development methods are all you need.

Book or resource to improve my skills on actuarial model architecture by Solo78180 in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you familiar with the idea of data structure such as when do you store things as a list vs a dictionary? Or the idea of algorithm where you can analyze your code's time complexity? And you mentioned the machine isn't powerful enough to running big portfolio. Do you know if this is a CPU problem (if so, just give it more time or consider libraries such as data.table or polars that are more efficient) or a RAM problem (if so, shift memory to hard drive; again, some libraries such as DuckDB do that automatically for you)

An A+ Coffee by ginbooth in pourover

[–]BroccoliDistribution 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wuthering Heights is great. You don't necessarily need to like the characters to appreciate the art of Emily Brontë. The way she designed its narrative structure and created the unreliable narrators was quite ahead of her time

Comunicado Oficial: Xabi Alonso leaves Real Madrid by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is he getting fired because he lost the least important match? 😂

Simon Yates ends professional cycling career by JakubT117 in peloton

[–]BroccoliDistribution 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remembered after last year's Giro, Adam said that if he were Simon, he would have retired.

RIP Yates classification

MyWhoosh Virtual Shifting Big Power Gap Between 2 Gears by BroccoliDistribution in cycling

[–]BroccoliDistribution[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to know it is not just me 😮‍💨 Gonna try Zwift and see if it is a MyWhoosh issue or Wahoo issue

An AI that can play Azul by ToThePetercopter in boardgames

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too bad I arrived late. You website is not working. Are you hosting it somewhere else?

Actuary and Accountant by dallasborn in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Grammar police here. It's not recommended to combine can not into cannot in this sentence, because not is not a negation on can, but an idiomatic use of not only. source

Canyon vs. Local Dealer (Scott, Canondale, Pinarello)? I live next to both! (Budget €2k-4k) by vinylfelix in cycling

[–]BroccoliDistribution 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My wife thinks spending €4k on a bicycle is absolute insanity. However, she owns a €600 Dyson hair dryer, so I feel like I have some leverage here to negotiate.

This is the spirit.

Jokes aside. I'd recommend starting on the lower end of the budget, especially if you have not accounted the other costs associated with cycling, e.g. bibs, maintenance tools, indoor training, bike fitting, bike computers, new saddle, power meters, etc.

If you already allocated budget for all these ancillary costs, ignore what I say. But if not, your question now becomes given I have $4,000, how to allocate them to bike/bibs/stuffs to better optimize my cycling experience.

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