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by rgoddard 6y ago
When my 5 year old was recently asked what was his favorite chip, his response was "chocolate chip". So that shortage may be just around the corner.
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by rgoddard 6y ago
Any sort of bias present in the training data will be replicated in the model. If the police are biased in whom they target, that group will naturally show a higher crime rate. Which would easily be picked up in any sort of statistical mode
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by rgoddard 6y ago
The drop in crime happened nationwide during this same time in places which did not include NYC. [1] The timing of this seemed to have been more coincidental with the drop in crime. [1] https://www.npr.org/2016/11/
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by rgoddard 8y ago
I have worked as a health actuary for the past 6 six years with degrees in both math and computer science. I am happy with my career choice. Prior to this I did work several years as a programmer and decided while I enjoy programming it is
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by rgoddard 9y ago
The cost of insurance is largely driven by the underlying cost of what you are insuring. Unless they are able to lower the cost of care significantly, the price difference between a non-profit and for-profit is marginal.
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by rgoddard 9y ago
The measure by itself is not sufficient. Which is why all the additional analysis was needed. 1. Using the current district map the last set of elections show that Wisconsin had a large gap. 2. Compared to other state's the gap is an o
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by rgoddard 9y ago
I am familiar with NY medicaid. They do publish a way to calculate the Medicaid default rate. Insurers do not have to pay exactly this but it provides a decent base line. Here is a basic description of how inpatient pricing works. Each year
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by rgoddard 9y ago
Mostly due to all of the variables that go into pricing a claim. And that logic on lives in the insurer's claim processing system. Pieces that can impact the price. Your insurer and what product you have. These will affect who is consi
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by rgoddard 10y ago
Given the many different features this is not surprising. My approach was to focus on learning one set of features at a time. I used http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html as a guide. The order I went in was: Creating / ed
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by rgoddard 10y ago
One possible place to check is your local university. I know the one by me has a good clinical psych program and they run a clinic that is open to the public. They charge on a sliding scale based on your income so it may be more affordable.
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by rgoddard 10y ago
A couple additional pieces to keep in mind. Insurance companies are essentially capped at how much profit they can make on average per subscriber. For large groups 85% of every dollar collected has to be spent on medical expenses, and for s
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by rgoddard 10y ago
Realize that it is a skill that can be trained. The current environment does encourages short attention spans. Working on your attention span needs to be deliberately. First understand your current ability. What is the longest show you can
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by rgoddard 10y ago
Being risk-adverse with retirement spending is perfectly rational. Most people will have to take into minimum expense amounts. Pursuing a strategy which will have the more likely outcome of not being able to pay your minimum expenses would
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by rgoddard 10y ago
One issue which is neglected when this topic comes up is confusing the method of teaching vs what you are trying to teach. What you are trying to teach is the value of working hard and not only relying on being smart. The mechanism that is
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by rgoddard 11y ago
The electrons in the graphene take on a special shape where they behave as if they had no mass. This means they can travel at a high speed and gives graphene its high electrical conductivity. That coupled with the superconductivity make the
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by rgoddard 11y ago
I would highly recommend learning some of agenda mode. I originally started with only using the tree editing features. But one of the coolest features is the agenda mode and the fact that you can create custom views which pull in all the de
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by rgoddard 11y ago
I also find that it tends to be more concise which lends to denser code. The density can be a bit off putting until you become accustom to reading it. The other part that is weird is having all of the closing parenthesis on a the last line.
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by rgoddard 11y ago
I think this is related to the fact that our own internal parsers that have been trained upon c-style code falls about when trying to read list code. So the dislike is not due to the number of parenthesis, but rather our own internal discor
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by rgoddard 11y ago
Basically re-balancing a tree. In this case it required adding a new root now to maintain the optimal branching factor.
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by rgoddard 11y ago
When talking about a diet you want to break it down into several dimensions. 1) Does this diet lead to weight loss? This boils down to burning more calories then consumed. As mentioned in a different comment you can lose weight eating only
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by rgoddard 11y ago
Another cause of this is that services are generally not priced on a case by case basis. Hospital inpatient claims are priced based off of DRGs (Diagnostic-related group). An insurance company is not charged on a line-by-line basis. Rather
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by rgoddard 11y ago
One of the difficulties of improving the overall healthcare system is there are very few ways of making systematic improvements. This article talks about a single hospital. They demonstrated a method which works, but this only improves one
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by rgoddard 11y ago
I am currently working as an Actuarial Analyst, but I have also worked several years as a programmer. As an analyst the tools I use are excel, access, SAS Enterprise guide and Oracle SQL developer. One of the big problems I face is that we
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by rgoddard 12y ago
Clojure is an interesting model where you have the company Cognitect built around the language. You have the product arm with Datomic, the consulting arm creating client projects in clojure and finally paid clojure/datomic training. Al
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by rgoddard 12y ago
Data scientist - Here is a metric ton of data, find something useful from it Scientific Programmer - Here is a set of physical laws and differential equations which govern this chemical reaction, write a simulation for it Mathematician - Th
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by rgoddard 12y ago
It is like interrupting a step in a chain reaction. The sooner you can identify and acknowledge one of the steps the sooner you halt or slow the reaction. So you may not be able to stop the initial emotion or thought, but by acknowledging i
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by rgoddard 12y ago
I agree. The simplicity comes from the fact that you are focusing on different aspects at different times. I find that I will start off with defining my data structure and only focusing on the data structure. What information do I nee
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by rgoddard 12y ago
If I am donating to a charity which funnels money to research, how is this all that different? I think you can tap into a similar set of population and motivations for the donations. One of the upsides with this sort of approach is that
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by rgoddard 12y ago
Also related is differentiating between the things you want to happen or change vs things you want to change your self. We are surrounded by problems and it can be easy to become bogged down trying/wanting to solve them all yourselves.

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