aqualinux | 3 years ago | on: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
I think Trump has said he will not join Twitter even if there is the offer to reinstate his account.
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aqualinux | 3 years ago | on: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
Not my views personally, but there was a time on Twitter when doubting the effectiveness of certain drugs, expressing views about the 2020 election could get your account suspended. I think people are hoping that things like this won't happen any more because of Musk's views on free speech.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Peter Thiel to step down from Meta’s board
One of the ones who gets it.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
Maybe, the insurer would still needs a claims-handling staff overhead to verify a claim made is valid. And perhaps also an underwriting team to assess the risk before the start of a policy. The DAO could replace the paperwork/emails, but I imagine that is only a small expense.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
The ML skills update was a very basic update. Proper ML skills take a long time to learn and can't be taught through an exam, the material for which gets forgotten very quickly afterwards.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
The incumbent insurance companies maintain their position in the market through having large amounts of capital which lets them ultimately offer lower premiums than a new competitor entering the market which may have less capital. This means the legacy insurance companies don't need to prioritise investing in innovation to maintain their position, hence the old companies stay around.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
Actuary here, having previously studied maths. I considered the exams hard not because of the level of understanding needed, but because of the amount of content that needed to be learned for each exam. I think most people studying A level maths can pass the exams.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
Qualified actuary here also from UK. You're right about insurance being a legacy industry. In terms of the exams, if you can pass A-level maths, you can pass the actuarial exams. I found the main reason they were considered hard is not because of the subject matter, but due to the amount of content that had to be learned in a short space of time.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute
Trying to make something an 'institute' corrupts its integrity from the get-go.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Big tech bots are going to downvote you for saying this
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: The last days of Silicon Roundabout
"If anything the tech scene is better since Brexit but I suspect that's in large part to the pandemic"
Tech investment in London was growing after the Brexit vote and before the start of the pandemic
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: HyperPhysics (2016)
Love the fact they haven't updated the website to more modern web technologies.
aqualinux | 4 years ago | on: I could do that in a weekend (2016)
"Considering how much of Google's $500B market cap comes from search" Time flies
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