On my way to Tsinghua (清华大学), Beijing

2026-04-05

Next week, I will be at Tsinghua University in Beijing. On Tuesday, in the early afternoon, I will give three lectures for undergraduate students on the theme: ‘Three lectures on AI and its implications for actuarial (and/or financial) professions.’ These lectures explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and insurance. They begin from the observation that insurance has long relied on prediction, classification, and decision-making under uncertainty, well before the recent rise of AI. AI therefore does not introduce these issues from scratch, but changes … <a …

打造你自己的 Skill

2026-04-04

Garry Tan 的 gstack 最近很火——GitHub 近两万 star，Product Hunt 上趋势第一，到处都在讨论。他用这套 Skills 在 50 天里平均每周写 10,000 行代码、合并 100 个 PR。

我装过，认真用了一段时间，然后全删了。

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Campus newspapers and what remains of journalism

2026-04-04

Scott Lemieux juxtaposes the hard-hitting journalism being done by the Harvard Crimson on the Jeffrey Epstein case (although so far they seem to be focused on former university president Larry Summers and not Epstein’s other Ivy League buddies) with a … Continue reading → …

One interface, (Almost) Every Classifier: unifiedml v0.2.1

2026-04-04

A new version of unifiedml is out; available on CRAN. unifiedml is an effort to offer a unified interface to R’s machine learning models.

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