Hi all,
Having created a lot of content for JuliaActuary.org, I spent a lot of time over the past few years working with my co-author Yun Tien Lee creating a book about bringing programming and related skills to actuaries and other financial professionals. We released the book earlier this year and it’s available completely free online or as a paid print edition.
I think it’s a great time to learn topics like this, because since we wrote the content for the book AI has become a big force in technical disciplines, and having the knowledge and confidence to interact with an AI is (IMO) becoming an essential skill. AI isn’t good enough to blindly trust it, and you need to have the foundational knowledge to suss out the good from the bad. The book itself spends virtually no time on AI and instead focuses on the fundamentals.
Feedback thus far has been great and any constructive feedback is still welcome!