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tim-tday
10 days ago
You can use actuarial math and get pretty damned close. Like within five years with 80% confidence. Not as much romance in that as there is in a Time Machine.
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numeri
9 days ago
The problem is that what people care about are the "black swan" causes of death, i.e., the cases the actuarial table is wrong.
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gmreads
9 days ago
I am very curious how one might do that? What would be the input parameters ? (Zero knowledge about actuarial math)
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