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Milliman
Company blog · milliman.com/en/insighteconomicsbusiness
Milliman is the company blog at milliman.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Milliman pages as reference material: a Milliman Mind product for uploading Excel workbooks to the cloud, and Milliman insight on the mortgage and housing market.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A worldwide provider of actuarial and related products and services, we help our clients protect the health and financial well-being of people everywhere.
What Hacker News says?
This piqued my interest too. I found a few adjacent papers but couldn't find a source that made as comprehensive of a claim. The closest were: - "In constant battle with insurers, doctors reach for a cudgel: AI" from NYT (via Salt Lake Tribune), 2024 July, which is mostly on doctors using law-compliant LLMs to draft prior authorizations and has a passing one-graf mention of insurers likely doing the same: https://ww…
Comment linking /en/insight/potential-of-large-language-models-insurance-sector
on “Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles”Submitted Status of collectively bargained benefits [pdf] as a story · 13 points
HN discussionHere is sort of a modern variation - upload your Excel workbook to the cloud. I don't have hands on experience or any connection but I think it translates to C# under the hood. https://www.milliman.com/en/products/milliman-mind
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on “Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry”Submitted An actuary's guide to Julia: Use cases and performance benchmarking in insurance as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt’s not gobbledygook. I think for most people it’s hard to grasp the scale of the entire industries outside of their area of professional expertise so you can look at some numbers here: https://www.milliman.com/en/insight/mortgage-market-and-hous... https://www.sifma.org/issues/market-structure/housing-financ...
Comment linking /en/insight/mortgage-market-and-housing-trends-q2-2025
on “US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes”Submitted Car manufacturers vs. traditional auto insurers: Who will win the tech race? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOther resources seem to agree with me with regards to unaffordability at this scale. Maybe we’re just arguing the scale of “a few tens of billions here and there.” > PFAS can be bought for $50 - $1,000 per pound (according to MPCA estimates), but costs between $2.7 million and $18 million per pound to remove and destroy from municipal wastewater, depending on facility size. https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stori…
Comment linking /en/insight/pfas-liability-estimate-water-district-remediation
on “How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water”Submitted Blockchain technology will disrupt the PBM-payer-pharmacy relationship as a story · 1 points
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