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Further to this post about my standing for Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, I am very pleased to announce that today I have rejoined the Committee of the Wessex Actuarial Society as its President. I look forward to working with the rest of the Committee and the ...

I was very pleased to complete this program (a series of 10 courses) in April 2019, working in my spare time. Overview The 10 courses were: Microsoft Professional Orientation: Big Data (completed Oct 2017) Analyse and Visualize Data (completed on the Data Science program in July 2017) Work with NoSQL ...

Further to my previous post with tips about doing online edX courses, where I recommended downloading the transcript files of key course videos, you will usually find that by default when you copy and paste the content of the text (.txt) files into your (OneNote) notes, they aren't formatted very ...

I have now taken 24 online edX courses, mainly on #DataScience, #BigData and #AI. The pass mark on these has been 70%, but being a bit of a perfectionist, I have always tried for 100%. (After all, would you really want an airline pilot who got things right 70% of ...

In Part 1 , I wrote: When done accurately and before any clever processing, the number of cashflows produced can easily run into the millions , and for a large pension plan, into the billions . (When I have time, I plan to explain why, and talk about some of ...

Earlier today I submitted my nomination to stand for the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries again. I was on the Council from July 2012 to June 2018, and server on the Management Board from July 2016 to June 2018. The main skill-set I bring to the table ...

Popular self-service blog platforms like WordPress allow to you add Tag Clouds via adding what they call a widget to a sidebar. I wanted to add one to this site (which is a standard ASP.NET Core 2.2 webapp, but modified to use ButterCMS as a blog backend) and after checking ...

It doesn't come up as an option in the current latest release version of Visual Studio 2019 (v 16.0.3), but ,NET 4.8 (as opposed to 4.72) has apparently been available since 18 April 2019. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/whats-new/index#v48 . From that page: NET Framework 4.8 builds on previous versions of the .NET ...

Further to my previous post which used the Preview version of Telerik's UI (user interface components) for Blazor, earlier today they released the first live version of it: see their blog post . I look forward to using this soon.

Further to this post , the exact same behaviour (as for .NET Core 2.2) is observed in .NET Core 3 Preview.