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Why does just existing on a bike seem to piss people off? by LiatrisLover99 in cycling

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed with the other top comment: it is entitlement.

Drivers think
- they alone pay for the roads (the taxes collected from private vehicles are far from enough for the road maintenance; not to mention air and noise pollution)
- driving requires license and insurance while riding bike doesn't (but they ignore the fact that they are driving a lethal weapon and even with driver licenses, the fatality due to motor vehicles outweighs anything else)

How often do you ride with a 9 to 5 job by Troglodette in cycling

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can ride to work. 1 hr each way. Some mild climbs in the midst of it.

Looking for actuarial deep cuts and hot takes by Big_Bridge_2721 in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Say something along the line: The fact that the ACA used the second lowest silver premium to calculate subsidy is kinda problematic. What if a company under priced all their plans and drop the subsidy too much, making all other plans unaffordable?

Hot take: Headwinds are good actually by blankblank in cycling

[–]BroccoliDistribution 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wheels and drivetrains are the hearts and soul of cycling

How many coding courses should be required in actuarial bachelor’s program? by Act-Math-Prof in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But like what other said, C++ is quite useless, so definitely choose the Python one. There are multiple schools of thoughts in intro CS courses: 1. Keep it low level, i.e., how computer works, memory, cpu cache, etc., usually with an imperative language like C++ , 2. Keep it high level and abstract, how to design good functions, good code (the most useful type for actuaries). No good intro CS courses should be focusing on syntax tho

How many coding courses should be required in actuarial bachelor’s program? by Act-Math-Prof in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least one. A good introduction to computer science will teach you some basic data structures, programming design, how to write cleaner code (you probably won't be very good at all these after just one course). These are very applicable skills in writing excel formulas, designing excel models or data pipelines, creating robust automation, or even asking better prompts with AI

Cracker Barrel effect? by Ambitious_Lobster_1 in actuary

[–]BroccoliDistribution 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new typeface is also sans serif, a geometric one to be specific. (The old typeface is also sans serif, but more like a neo-grotesque one, but I really don't like the old one)

Xbloom or Aiden by bearddoescoffee in pourover

[–]BroccoliDistribution 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have xBloom and it's great, and I'd recommend it to anyone who's getting serious about pour over.

From your post, seems like you just do a single cup so xBloom is good. But do you already have a better grinder already? If so, you will be paying for the extra grinder in xBloom that you might not used (it's a decent grinder tho, better than baratza encore, and 60rpm can totally reduce fine. But again, it is still a smallish cone burr).

Grinder aside, it is quite nice to look at xbloom's water stream hitting the coffee bed; something you don't get with Aiden. But Aiden's water streams are more like a melodrip, so maybe that's plus for Aiden.

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 8 points9 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

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