interrorbang

u/interrorbang


r/AskStatistics•

This is a question about insurance data. The response variable is whether or not a given claim will be >100k (i.e. large). The data is evaluated as of a certain date, and it includes claims that are only a few days old and some that are years old. Any of these claims that are not yet >100k could be if we evaluate them in a month or even in a year. The new claims (less than six months) are a lot less likely to be large, even if they will end up being that way - usually the amount that will be paid isn't known that early.

What I would like to know is if there is any value to a logistic model that predicts whether a claim will be large (given various characteristics) even though the data

11

r/tf2•

I came back to the game about a week ago after a 3-4 year absence. I don't play spy but it seems like its a really underwhelming class right now. The enforcer doesn't do more damage except for the first shot, and the fire rate is lower. You can get killed through the dead ringer from most crits.

A good spy is still a good spy but it seems like the damage output and survivability in general are both down. Spies are annoying but that's the nature of the class. Why were these changes made and what has been the community reaction?

2693


r/actuary•

Unfortunately I don't have anyone I feel I can ask for advice about this kind of thing, so hopefully someone here can help me.

Here's the situation:
My boss has asked me what it would take for me to stay on in my current position for another year rather than rotate. Reason is basically that two of us are eligible for rotation at the same time, and both of us rotating would hamstring the group.

Relevant Details:

  • P&C primary insurer
  • Job is as a Catastrophe Modeler, however my role and title are actuarial (my boss is also an actuary). I spend fairly little time running the models. Most of my job is working with and adjusting output for pricing & rei
53

r/buildapc•

I'm putting finally putting together a decent build after more than 5 years without. I have been wanting to for about that long, and I am finally in a position to be able to do it right. I have put together PCs before but I have not been following the industry and I've never worked with any really nice components. I have done some research and mostly followed logical increments but there's still a good chance that I've not made the best choices for my needs.

What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.

  1. Some gaming (see next section)
  2. General use - no video editing or encoding, no intensive streaming. Two monitors is a must. I use two at wo
13

r/projecteuler•

Note: These are all in python but as far as I know nothing used is unique to python so they should be fairly accessible

Lately I've been trying to implement a bunch of different variations on the sieve of eratosthenes to see which is fastest - or at least see which of my attempts at the algorithm is fastest (based on time to generate primes up to 10^7 and 10^8). I am running into the issue of whether or not the fault is with the algorithm or with my implementation.

Here is what I'm looking for:
1.Why is #1 so much faster than the rest? Is the algorithm better or are my implementations just bad? Could they be improved to be faster than #1?
2.I would like t

26

r/statistics•

Here's the situation. You draw some samples from a population and do separate simple t tests to test the null hypothesis that the sample mean = population mean. So for each sample you get some test statistic.

Does the set of the test statistics follow some distribution? More simplistically, if we reduce the test statistics into a simple Yes/No rejection of the null hypothesis, so we have a bunch of Yes/No, does this follow a distribution?

In general, is there anything to be gained by doing hypothesis tests on the results of the hypothesis tests of a bunch of samples? Is there some threshold for the number of samples that should be done?

36


r/AskHistorians•

I've been reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and it seems like nearly every influential figure short of Hitler himself kept a detailed diary. Is this situation normal for the time, both within and outside of Germany? Did the average person at this time keep a diary, or was it just those in politics or positions of power? Are these detailed diaries an aberration of history or do we see a lot of instances were primary figures kept personal records like this?

10


r/actuary•

I'm in my last year of college and I've have been fortunate enough to have received a few offers. I'm trying to make the decision between health and P&C. It's a little frustrating to try to get answers from actuaries in each field because of course their field is the best - I get that. It's difficult to be objective about their particular field, and often there's some discomfort or unwillingness to 'disparage' their company. I get that too.

But it's difficult for me to make an informed decision about my future. I think that health probably suits me more, but I just have some reservations about where it is headed.

  • Lots of companies are hiring health actuaries now, and there is a lot o
914

r/tipofmytongue•

I wish I could give more information

Here is what I know

  • male vocalist
  • Based on the other songs in the playlist it's most likely 80s music, fairly pop-y
  • I have some fragments I remember: there's this repeating part that is some lines, then a very abrupt word that sounds a bit like "ERROR" and then something like "I smile at you"
  • There is also something about "fire away, just fire away" or at least it sounds like that
  • This won't be relevant to most but it's from Adam_ak's stream on twitch, on his GTA III MP3 player playlist

I wish I could provide more to go on. I'm awful with music. Thanks in advance.

34

r/actuary•

Hello

I've been set on becoming an actuary for the duration of my undergrad. I am majoring in actuarial science, and I've taken and passed exam P and FM, and I'll be sitting for MFE in July, and then I'll probably take MLC in November before the format change, and then if all goes well C in the beginning of 2014. (I have covered almost all of the material for each exam already) I go to a fine school and my GPA is fine, and I feel like by the time I graduate I will be ok on the exam front, but what I lack is experience.

I'll be graduating almost a year early, and I haven't had the chance to get any internships (no excuses for this, really - if I could give myself advice just starting out as

31

r/starcraft•

It occurred to me while watching proleague start up just now that Korean tournaments seem to have 3 casters. Admittedly my sample is fairly small - I have really only noticed it in GSL and proleague, but I've never seen it in a foreign tournament, unless it's HSC or something and a player is casting.

Why is this? Are foreign casters just too expensive?

37