By Ted Gotsch
New Clearinghouse website highlights nonpartisan Academy input on key issues
May/June 2024
Features
By Lisa Slotznick
Contingencies is 35 years old! Let’s celebrate!
By Ryan Huff
Machine learning (ML) has entered the common vernacular as an umbrella term for algorithms pertaining to artificial intelligence and complex data analysis.
Departments
By Eric Harding
My birthday was a few weeks ago.
Letter regarding the March/April 2024 issue of Contingencies.
By Lisa Slotznick
Back to the 2024 Election and voting—older citizens are more likely to vote and participate in elections than other age groups in the U.S.
May/June 2024
By David Kausch
"No more exams!" Aisha exclaimed. Aisha was celebrating her success with a credentialled actuarial coworker, Bailey, over lunch.
By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
Climate Engineering: Risk and Governance Conundrums
Review by Paul Conlin
Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
Anomalies in Gambling That Defy the Odds
By Yingzhou He, Zhiguo Wang, and Jay Vadiveloo
How to enjoy old age to the fullest satisfaction
By Warren Manners
By Tom Toce
BEGIN AGAIN is what I find I have to do when I fill out a grid 90% of the way and then uncover a fatal flaw. It’s pretty frustrating, but that’s puzzle construction.
By Stephen Meskin
As actuaries, we are all pretty good at plugging numbers into a formula and getting a result.
By Robert J. Rietz
“Hey Google, set a timer for 15 minutes,” I said before settling into an easy chair for a short wait.