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So I'm delighted to open up a bit about these particular details, in honor of Valentine's Day (when every balding, chubby, and short actuary wants people - especially the babes out there - to know about his studly past"
From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story
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Zack Love (Stories and Scripts: an Anthology)
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In 2011, Insurance giant Allstate, with forty of the best actuaries and data scientists money could buy, wanted to see if its claims algorithm could be improved upon, so it ran a contest on Kaggle.
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Salim Ismail (Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it))
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well, we’d have to wake up Professor Xaius in the ethics faculty to say for sure. They’re working on a rather delicate little project I think you’d enjoy—an auction-based system of ethical weights and measures. They say it’s intended for actuarial work, providing at best a rough estimate when confined to individual frames of reference, but it would be worth a laugh to consult.
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Max Gladstone (Dead Hand Rule (The Craft Wars #3))