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      • Submission
        17/04/06
        So I took a quiz even though I know that these quizzes are completely biased, thus the maximum likelihood estimator should be rejected under the null hypothesis.



        You are Submissive

        You are one of those people who is prepared to just sit in the background of th

      • No regrets
        08/04/06
        NB One for honesty. Feel free to make comments. Not much actuarial humour. Also, I denote people by their handles as opposed to real names.

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        When I was a younger, idealistic child I believed in never having regrets and seizing the opportunity to never leaving anything un

      • Comments on Comments
        08/04/06
        I'm so happy that a few friends from the Actuarial Outpost discussion forum have visited and left comments. So here are mine:

        - "Kissing another actuary would be like kissing your brother".
        Well to be honest, I've never kissed a male actuary and I haven't

      • Part VII
        04/04/06
        Yesterday I sat in the lecture hall for a quiz in Actuarial Statistics. It's became rather obvious that I would fail (I could only attempt about 25% of the paper) but I realised that I was rather blase about the whole thing. I had gotten to a stage in my education where I just didn't care.

      • Part VI
        02/04/06
        Working on yet another claims experience analysis I cam to the conclusion that I am rather obssessive. Though it should be fairly routine as there's not that much to finding the value of IBNR's, I'm always looking for things to pick on. I got rather cranky that I didn't have enou

      • Part V
        02/04/06
        We've talked about many psuedo-random things, but what point does one
        go from dating to relationship phase? Seeing someone special, the marginal utility of each date increases - but where is teh pareto optimal efficient point on the dating frontier? Plus, don't forget, you must weig

      • Part IV - Beyond Fellowship
        02/04/06
        Considering my literary pretensions, I went to the Harlequinn Mills and Boon website to see their guidelines on writing Romance Novels. To my shock I discovered:
        1. each book is approximately 55,000 words long
        2. accepted on the basis of the 1st 3 chapters and a blurb (no wonder the blur

      • Part III
        02/04/06
        On a light note I went down into the computer science lab and I told a friend about what I was doing at work today which was "Trying to write a model to calculate a tax deduction percentage for Group Salary Continuance policies to age 65 based on the IAS 93 data and the American Disability tabl

      • Part II
        02/04/06
        Nowadays a first date is usually a drink, after work or uni. This is a good first step because dinner is WAY too much commitment. With a drink, you can leave 10 minutes into it after you realise you can't bear to talk to this person ever again. You can't leave just after ordering the main

      • Part I
        02/04/06
        Dating (and I mean socially, not back-dating policies) is an extremely scary thing. More so as an actuary then any other. Of course, when dating, the most common question is: "What do you do?" And when you say: "I'm studying Actuarial Studies" the prospective partner immedia