London DC – the rocky road ahead for pensions
With the demise of defined benefit and the rise of defined contribution in pensions, Francisco Sebastian says it’s a rocky road ahead for UK finance
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Price wars – the rise of gradient boosting machines
In the fierce competition of personal lines pricing, gradient boosting machines are increasingly the modelling method of choice, say Jacky Tam, Umar Burhanudin and Curtis Yuen
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Doctoring the approach – the NHS needs more actuaries
NHS England’s year-old Integrated Care Systems aim to make it more preventative, less reactive. Now, alongside the cry for more health professionals, there’s one for more actuaries – David McDwyer explains.
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Cloud cover – benefits of being on the cloud
Host with the most – the cloud hosts the IT you want; it also offers a host of knock-on benefits. Aristides Zenonos describes the key choices, and the latest developments.
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Planting the seeds – the problem of reproducibility in neural networks
Brain-like neural networks are at the forefront of data modelling – but the results are like humans: no two are the same. Jack Harrington says initialisation is key to dealing with this problem of reproducibility.
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