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My hope is that we can at least get a Civ game with a competent AI...

Actuary here. I don't work in ILS but I'm familiar with what you're talking about.

It depends on the details of the product. In theory you could get a product that doesn't have a cliff and it will be priced accordingly.

These are basically equivalent to options in finance.

For anyone looking for a good anime, I would recommend Planetes which is about a crew that protects the Earth from space debris.

My dad was one these ARVN soldiers. In the final days of the war he and his drill sergeant stole a helicopter as Saigon fell and flew west, expecting to keep fighting. They wound up in a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually made it to the US. He wouldn't see his family again until Clinton normalized relations with Vietnam 20 years later.

In those final moments, soldiers who knew how to fly took whatever aircraft they could get their hands on, (Chinooks, Hueys, Cessnas, etc.) and flew aimlessly, hoping to run into friendly forces along the way before their fuel ran out.

When I used a power meter, the data could be exported in some kind of machine-readable format like CSV. All you do is change the numbers.

I'm thinking one way to easily do motor doping is via the bike changes. A rider swaps a doped bike brought in by the team that wasn't checked at the start during the easy portions and rides 100km saving watts along the way. They then change back to a regular bike before things get intense and meanwhile the team finds a way to discreetly get rid of the doped bike.

After the stage the doping controls check the regular bike, but are unaware of the existence of the doped bike.

Rideshare and delivery apps have enabled more people to do those jobs than before.

Technology can also reduce the skills needed for jobs. For example, you no longer need to have an entire city's streets memorized to be a taxi driver.

Even if the loans weren't subsidized by the government, the schools wouldn't do it. It's more likely they would be financed by banks like they are with other goods.

There are still elevators like that in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago. In addition to the elevators, it's a great place to be if you're a musician. There are studios, practice rooms, and musical instrument shops too.

Since ChatGPT relies on Stack Overflow and similar sites for training data, it's only really going to be as good what's already on the Web.

So it can't replace these sites in their entirety, because if those sites decline, so will the quality of ChatGPT responses. I suppose there will be some kind of mediocre equilibrium.

In one of his lesser-known roles (Apollo 10 1⁄2), Jack Black plays a kid whose family is involved in the space industry. It takes place in my hometown, Clear Lake. Even though it takes place a few decades before I was born, I was able to recognize a park I used to visit and a nearby elementary school which were accurately recreated in the film.

Even if you "win" that mission, you get the losing cutscene and the commander chews you out for not meeting your objectives even when you did and are put on the losing path - at least that's what happened in my copy of the game, so it wouldn't have been worth the effort.

We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam.

I'm an actuary who had to take 10 of these for my profession (pass rates 20%-40% each sitting, takes 4 months to study for each one).

They come with the same complaints about false negatives, unrealistic/random questions, and fairness that technical interviews have.

Yes they do.

I'm Vietnamese-American, so I'd say making me pho every once in a while.

Yeah...I know you can get it here in the states, but having it at home made me really appreciate that simple things can really bring happiness.

Where I grew up in Texas, this was called the Robinhood Plan where rich districts sent money to poor ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_plan

Have you Transport Fever 2? The AI manages growth of the cities while you work on building out the logistics. The better your network, the faster the cities grow. Since there are planes involved I would classify the scale as being nation-sized.

It only returns one book per genre over 6 genres. I was expecting to find a certain book set in my hometown (Clear Lake in Houston), the book is called "Friendswood," based on the real Friendswood, TX, and uses the same street names.

It wasn't listed, but it did return "The Martian," which I guess would be right due to the presence of NASA JSC.

Economically, this puzzles me. I'd think that if quantity supplied were so high the equilibrium wage would drop to the point where excess people would stop trying to become doctors, or at least to the point where surgically implanting things wouldn't be worth the hassle. Is there something in India propping up wages for those professions?

O'Neill cylinders are also frequently depicted in the various Gundam series.

Yeah, these are some books on the syllabus:

https://bookstore.ams.org/text-57

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1715689.Theory_of_Intere...

It's the same reason other notations get invented, it makes calculating things and communicating concepts regarding insurance products faster and easier.

One pain the ass I have though is needing to install the actuarial symbol LaTeX package for various software I use and write. I got it working with stuff like Sphinx and Anki. Things like communicating over bulletin boards is still very challenging if the site does not support custom notation:

https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/actuaria...

Actuary here. There's a subject called mathematical interest theory that explores time value of money beyond simple and compund interest that you learn in grade school. It makes use of this notation and is part of the US curriculum for actuaries.

For example, there's a concept of continually compounding interest as the limit of compounding frequency approaches infinity. Other growth patterns such as polynomial growth are theoretically possible. Anyone with basic calculus and algebra can learn it and it's a good subject for enhancing one's financial literacy. I'm surprised it's not taught in general finance.

Some economics textbooks that cover the topic of mutually assured destruction make analogies between nukes and patent stockpiles.

Imagine how many parent would just stick their kid into the worst school for 1-2 years to get that.

This actually happened when UT started applying the rule. Parents moved their kids to less competitive schools.

I'm from Texas, went to UT when it had the 10% rule. It was a problem for kids who went to competitive/affluent schools that were so competitive that one or two Bs would put you out of the running. So you would get some lopsided scenarios where some kids would get into MIT but also be rejected from Texas because the standards were that high. Meanwhile the valedictorian of a bad school with a 900 SAT score would get in. Some kids would move to less competitive high schools to have a chance at going to UT.

When I was growing up, my mother was at IBM designing software for the space shuttle, and the street next to my house was named IBM. I was named after one of their senior engineers. So the company played a big part in my childhood and was ever present in the community, and we still have lots of IBM space swag stored away in the attic, including the silver snoopy given to my mom during her time there. The stock grants paid for our education, and my mom still lives off the pension they had. The early 90s was such an optimistic time.

At some point IBM sold off the unit, vacated the office block, and the street was renamed to that of the new company that moved in. Eventually, all the shuttle workers would be laid off after the demise of the program, so it's sad to see how it all ended.

Go to a competitor. It can be a farce sometimes, when people from two different companies across the street essentially just replace each other for 20% more, but doing the exact same job. And then two years later they repeat and switch chairs again for another 20%.

Maybe there's some benefit to the companies in having stuff like this happen (learning a bit more about the competition), but the negative consequences that result from the loss of talent and internal knowledge seem to be avoidable in this situation if they just worked things out over pay.