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JuliaActuary is an ecosystem of packages that makes Julia the easiest language to get started for actuarial workflows.

FinanceModels.jl - Evolving the JuliaActuary Ecosystem

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Yields.jl has evolved into FinanceModels.jl. The benefits are:
Aug 19, 2023
Alec Loudenback

 

Modern Bayesian Statistics for Actuaries

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One of the first probabilistic theorems everyone learns is Bayes’ Theorem, but that theorem is conspicuously absent from most applications and practice. The reason for this…
Jul 13, 2023
Alec Loudenback

JuliaActuary and Hacktoberfest 2022

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Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October.
Sep 24, 2022

 

Getting Started with Julia for Actuaries

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The previously published article titled Julia for Actuaries gave a longer introduction to why Julia works so well in actuarial workflows. In summary: Julia’s attributes are…
Oct 24, 2021
Alec Loudenback and Dimitar Vanguelov

 

The Life Modeling Problem: A Comparison of Julia, Rust, Python, and R

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!! Note that this article is a draft
May 16, 2021
Alec Loudenback

 

Julia for Actuaries

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I have suggested that actuaries who are competent coders will differentiate both themselves and the companies they work for. Coding ability will be useful no matter what…
Jul 9, 2020
Alec Loudenback

 

Coding the Future

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“…the insurance business is perhaps the purest example of an ‘information-based’ industry - that is, an industry whose sole activity consists of gathering, processing, and…
Jul 9, 2020
Alec Loudenback
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