A Pricing Strategy with Machine Learning
THIS was the theme of this year’s project at Columbia University. The project was deliberately less structured that projects from…
A Quote for my Probability Course
In my courses, I usually introduce a phrase that resonates with the nature of the subject. For course P, and…
Limited Expected Value for a Gamma Distribution
A student recently asked me how to write a script for this function, that involves the incomplete gamma function. Here…
The Power of Regular Exercise
As students, we often get caught up in the whirlwind of classes, assignments, and exams. However, making time for regular…
The Best Way to Learn Anything
If we learn by association, we remember by repetition. This is a powerful idea: the larger the number of problems…
A Difficult Financial Mathematics Problem
STATISTICALLY, the most difficult problem of the final exam in my Spring 2024 class was the following: Anyone care to…
A Summer of Probabilities
For the summer 2024 semester, Universidad Anáhuac Puebla offers an intensive, hands-on preparation bootcamp for Exam P of the Society…
Advice for Aspiring Actuaries
I have compiled the following list of suggestions that may be provide insights to actuarial students, both at the undergraduate…
Launching Integrated Project 2024
On May 23, we kicked off the Integrated Project Course of the Master of Actuarial Science at Columbia University. This…
Python or R: Which One Should Actuaries Learn?
The brief answer is that both are essential tools for actuarial analysis, thus, I would recommend learning both. Indeed, actuaries…