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(Like all my posts on this blog, these are my personal observations, made in a personal capacity and not representative of any employer or organisation I am associated with.) The UK government has stated that they are taking decisions based on scientific and medical advice. In particular, recent decisions have ...

I gave a presentation to the Channel Islands Actuarial Association earlier today, and a similar one earlier this year to the Staple Inn Actuarial Society. I provided copies of the materials I used to those two Societies, but I have had a few requests for a copy from other people: ...

Set up a custom dashboard showing the length of your queues One of the common use cases for an Azure function is to run on a timer to check the status of one or more Azure queues. You can do this very easily via an Azure v2 function because these ...

Further to this article, Microsoft released .NET Core 3.0 on 23 September.

Many years ago I switched to using OneNote (part of Microsoft Office) for taking notes, as opposed to Word. After all, that is what OneNote is designed for, whereas Word is designed to be a general word processing tool. If you put your notes in Word, you have to use ...

Further to my previous post about Blazor see here ) I am excited about the forthcoming release of version 3.0 of .NET Core by Microsoft, expected in September 2019. In particular, not only will this version include Blazor, but it will include support for machine learning. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt848631.aspx says: NET Core ...

Yesterday I completed what I have found to be the most demanding course so far on the Microsoft Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence , Reinforcement Learning Explained . It took me 66.5 hours (more than twice as long as previous edX courses have taken me) and my final mark was ...

Further to this post , I'm very pleased to have been re-elected to the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries for what will now be my third term (for 3 years from 2019 to 2022). Many thanks to all those who supported me, and indeed all those who ...

I recently completed the above Microsoft/edX course (full details of the course are here ) with a final mark of 92%. This was my 8th course on the Microsoft Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence, I plan to do my 9th course ( Reinforcement Learning Explained ) during the rest of ...

I recently completed the above Microsoft/edX course (full details of the course are here ) with a final mark of 95%. Why is DevOps important? Huge increases in efficiency for tech companies #DevOps is the art and science of trying to automate/streamline as much as possible many stages (i.e. humans ...