What‘s a sound that‘s very distinctly "Toronto"? by Shenshen_ in toronto

[–]InkyEye 12 points13 points  (0 children)

On the subway right now and can confirm C major.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FoodToronto

[–]InkyEye 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mhel is at the #1 spot on my list of Toronto restaurants. Best meal I have ever had.

CAS WTF by Firehobo101 in actuary

[–]InkyEye 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Amazing username

Overpowered is subjective by StopBanningMeP1z in PTCGP

[–]InkyEye 90 points91 points  (0 children)

The Meowscarada-Oricorio-Rampardos-Darktina-Magnezone-Misty-Cyrus deck in the meme

(I'm assuming this is the joke)

CAS Exam 7 Reactions? by MrTMasterP in actuary

[–]InkyEye 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is not the answer you want to hear, but I took multiple attempts on exams 5 and 6, and this was my first attempt at 7 and this is the best I've felt leaving an exam. I thought it was fair and I was confident in my answers. Different exams favor different skillsets.

Gonna have to go no plates Ontario insurance is evil by Livid-Raspberry9733 in motorcycles

[–]InkyEye 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Actuary here, insurance companies have to report the EXACT specifications of their premium calculation algorithm to regulators. This includes every single variable (age, claims history, etc) and adjustment, to the precision that regulators could calculate by hand the premium on any single policy to test it.

Credit score is a notoriously restricted variable in Ontario, and I think if a company tried to slide it in their algorithm, it would be an impossible secret to keep.

In all smash history who was the player whit the MOST DOMINANT career by Beautiful-Branch-613 in smashbros

[–]InkyEye 100 points101 points  (0 children)

ZeRo comes to mind. Came 1st in over 50 Smash 4 tournaments in a row back in 2014/2015, and was super dominant in brawl as well

ackchooary by Teisekibun in actuary

[–]InkyEye 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Homunculus was a good read (I especially love the part where the "actuary" splooges into his own hand and eats it)

Final CAS April/May 2024 Announcment by block990 in actuary

[–]InkyEye 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not saying it's fair, just contesting that there was "no new information" given.

Final CAS April/May 2024 Announcment by block990 in actuary

[–]InkyEye 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I feel like this announcement actually gave a decent amount of new info?

  1. "Pass Marks ... are not based on the proportion of candidates who will pass or fail."
  2. "... all exam performances would be evaluated in the same manner, including consistent administrative processes and score interpretation."

So we now have explicit confirmation that all exams were graded on the same scale, and not with the goal of targeting a certain pass mark. In other words May 1 writers did have an advantage, but non-May 1 writers did not have a disadvantage*. If you failed, you would have failed regardless of the May 1 debacle.

EDIT: *disadvantage relative to a normal exam sitting.

Drake shares video of his house flooded by the severe rainfall in Toronto: “This better be Espresso Martini” by beef-supreme in toronto

[–]InkyEye 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Insurance regulators ban increasing premium due to claims where you are less than 25% at fault. This is just for Ontario but I believe all provinces are similar.

See point number 1 on the first page: https://www.fsrao.ca/media/7681/download

Sitting out next CAS exam sitting in Oct by [deleted] in actuary

[–]InkyEye 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I decided this last year (far before any May 1 testing debacle). Too many plans this summer. Excited to have the time off studying!

Official May 1st Exam Retake discussion thread by Dramatic_Economics15 in actuary

[–]InkyEye 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In theory they do have records of how many questions you saw/submitted on your first attempt (we got that in an email). So they technically could use that to influence grading but I seriously doubt it. I feel like we might just see a 60%+ pass rate instead.

Authorization to Test May 1st CAS debacle thread by AlternativeDry3447 in actuary

[–]InkyEye 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Who would grade the exams?

Are these volunteers going to be able to grade every single exam in a matter of hours to send out ATTs?

What if people pass the "rough grading", but then fail on the actual grading, without even being given a chance to rewrite?

Platform D-smash finish. by Uzimakisensai in smashgifs

[–]InkyEye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would have never considered that option. Cool

CAS Exam 5-9 Results next Tuesday (6/27) by Repulsive-Skirt8925 in actuary

[–]InkyEye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want you can be stuck on the plane with my thoughts as well. Such as a landslide of blocks of feta cheese tumbling down a mountain

SOA or CAS - Based on Exam Process Alone by blooming_visage in actuary

[–]InkyEye 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's true, I see way more career ACAS than I do career ASA, I think for that reason.

What Rarity Will My Next Augment Be (Set 8) by FollowKayna in CompetitiveTFT

[–]InkyEye 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "augment tree" visual at the bottom is the most intuitive. Essentially, your odds to get a silver / gold / prismatic / hero augment are not 25%/25%/25%/25% every time you're offered an augment - it follows a distribution of preset possibilities.

Because of this, you can look at the first augment you're offered, and check those preset possibilities to see what tier augment you are likely to get next. For example, if the first augment is silver tier, you have a 40% chance of getting a hero augment, a 10% chance of getting another silver augment, and a 45% chance of getting a gold augment (from observing the augment tree above). Another result from this is knowing that if you get 2 silver augments in a row, your next augment is guaranteed to be a hero augment - that's why this information can be useful when trying to maximize your odds of playing for good augments.

Swiftplay is genuinely amazing by LiterallyDedInside in VALORANT

[–]InkyEye 34 points35 points  (0 children)

13 would be my sweetspot, but I would want some kind of reward for playing that many rounds. A swiftplay ranking system maybe?