Configuring Your Flask App
Best practices on configuring Flask. Use different configs for different environments and keep sensitive values out of your source code.
No Clocks
FlaskBest Practices for Flask API Development
Learn how to design and build REST APIs with Python and Flask following best practices.
Production Recipes: Flask App | Toptal®
How do you make robust #Python apps with Flask? Let’s explore recipes for building a complete #production-ready #Flask #application. toptal.com/url-pending
Running Your Flask Application Over HTTPS
While you work on your Flask application, you normally run the development web server, which provides a basic, yet functional WSGI complaint HTTP server. But eventually you will want to deploy your…
PowerShell-Scripts/Restore-EdgeTabs.ps1 at master · papersaltserver/PowerShell-Scripts
Various PowerShell scripts, too small for dedicated repository - PowerShell-Scripts/Restore-EdgeTabs.ps1 at master · papersaltserver/PowerShell-Scripts
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Bootstrap & Webpack
The official guide for how to include and bundle Bootstrap’s CSS and JavaScript in your project using Webpack.
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Get started with Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a powerful, feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build anything—from prototype to production—in minutes.
HTMLDeploying a containerized Flask app to Azure Container Apps
I've used Docker for many years as a local development environment (first for Khan Academy and then Berkeley CS61A), but until this week, ...
PythonStructure of an OpenAPI Document
For API designers and writers wishing formalize their API in an OpenAPI Description document.
APIs
JavaScript reference - JavaScript | MDN
The JavaScript reference serves as a repository of facts about the JavaScript language. The entire language is described here in detail. As you write JavaScript code, you'll refer to these pages often (thus the title "JavaScript reference").
Javascript
The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
Modern JavaScript Tutorial: simple, but detailed explanations with examples and tasks, including: closures, document and events, object oriented programming and more.
How the Internet works
The Internet has become a critical part of almost every part of our society — it provides information, communication, and entertainment to billions of people every day, and enables coordination and collaboration between people and business across the globe. Unfortunately, this crucial piece of infrastructure is poorly understood by a large majority of the population; the myriad of technologies (both hard and soft) that let your laptop connect to your bank or to your mom’s Skype window could just as well be magic as far as average person in the street is concerned.
DevelopmentDetermine ODBC Drivers Using VBA and PowerShell
Ever wanted to determine which OBDC drivers are installed on a PC, maybe SQL Server specific OBDC drivers? Find out how easy it can be done via VBA.
VBAA New OO System for R
Prototype implementation of an extension to S3 that provides explicit class definitions and a form of multiple dispatch. Represents the output of the Object-oriented Programming Working Group, sponsored by the R Consortium.
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Obsidian
Find Files Faster: How to Organize Files and Folders
You're sitting at your desk, putting the finishing touches on today’s big project, when ding! a message comes in from your boss: “Can you find that project we scrapped three years ago? You and John from UX worked on it, I think? We are thinking about picking it back up...
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Getting Started with Julia for Actuaries
An overview of the basic tooling and packages available for the Julia programming language, with a focus on why this is of interest to the actuarial profession. It covers some of the built-in language features as well parts of the Julia package ecosystem that make Julia ideal for modeling and data analysis. This is the second installment in a series of article aimed at actuaries. The first installment, Julia for Actuaries, was published in the October 2020 edition of Actuarial Technology Today, and covered the base language itself, its high-level, math-friendly syntax, and why the actuary of the future should consider its adoption.
Actuarial ScienceActuarial Process Optimization—A Case for Using Modern Technology in Actuarial Domain
Actuarial Process Optimization is a framework for using technology to support the actuary of the future. In this article, we discuss the capabilities of new technologies and explore examples where they can be used to aid with providing strategic business direction, optimizing skillsets and use of technology, and maintaining governance, control, and risk frameworks.
Innovation in technology has disrupted nearly every industry creating mounting internal and external pressures on organizations to accelerate the adoption of their digital agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic further brought to light the need for technology to be adaptable, powerful, and scalable. Insurance companies have been trying to keep up with the pace of innovation, primarily focusing on adopting modern technology on the consumer experience front.
Many have modernized the front office processes that support application, underwriting, and claim handling. The significant benefits achieved through process optimization and the use of modern technology have been the topic of discussions at many insurance conferences and publications.
As the insurance industry leaps into the future, actuaries must not only proactively refine their roles and responsibilities within insurance companies, but also seek opportunities for improvements and optimization in their day-to-day work. This article will focus on how technology and actuarial process optimization will support the role of the future actuary as a leader, risk manager, and technologist.
Opportunities for APO
Actuaries are valuable and strategically important resources to insurance companies. We are trained both on the job and through an intensive education and exam curriculum to study and own insurance risk. As highly capable professionals, actuaries are often self-reliant, and are interested in owning all technology tools, data and processes that support their daily jobs. However, this hands-on approach can lead to performing many tasks that do not require actuarial expertise. By occupying ourselves with various high effort but low value tasks, we often neglect to focus on higher value tasks that are truly valuable to the future of our organization. Advancements in technology and the desire for lean operations have contributed to many insurers evaluating their strategic direction and the role of the actuary of the future, shifting their focus onto highest value tasks.
Unnecessarily complex and error prone ETL, production and reporting workflows.
Time and resources wasted on resolving errors and tracing back complex process steps.
Production and process errors that can result in misstatements and delays in reporting.
Multiple unvalidated spreadsheets with overlapping functionalities.
Multiple sources of information, but no single “source of truth.”
Storage and processing time wastage.
