By Brian Jackson
I’ll never forget the day I first learned about the American Academy of Actuaries and the actuarial profession.
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Applying Precept 13
Concerning Apparent, Unresolved, Material Violations of the Code of Professional Conduct
Professionalism Considerations for Working in Developing Areas of Actuarial Practice
By Leo Apilash
“I’m thrilled to introduce our next guest. Joining us today is the candy-apple red Camaro Berlinetta formerly owned by Leo A____. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to be with us today.”
By Steve Malerich
“In this scenario, the foundation beneath our retirement system has crumbled. Our stool cannot stand, because it has nothing to stand on.”
By Craig Reynolds
During my stint as an elected official, skills learned as an actuary have proved invaluable
By Jim Lynch
For this website, the editor of Contingencies wanted a follow-up to the recent piece I wrote about ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) (“Artificial Untelligence,” May/June 2023).
By Jim Lynch
ChatGPT is, in its words, “a computer program designed to respond to user inputs in a conversational manner.” You can converse with it, ask it questions, and get it to write just about whatever you want.
By Paul Meixler
Models are ubiquitous in actuarial work. The following is a synopsis of the languages of models—in particular, the complex metalanguages and the structured rule-based object languages of models, along with mappings between them, are described.