Insurance
This is the total percentage that is made of the loss ratio and expense ratio.
combined ratio
When was Travelers, Inc. Founded?
1853
This place stores objects using a web service interface, ensuring scalability and high-speed access to the data.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Services)
What is the name of the technique used to prevent overfitting in neural networks that trades a marginal decrease in training accuracy for an increase in generalizability?
Regularization
What is the term for a function that calls itself in its definition?
Recursion
This is awarded to those that become ill or injured on the job.
worker's compensation / workman's compensation
This man was a stone contractor and the founder of Travelers (First Name + Last Name).
James Batterson
This service provides cloud-computing, allowing users to take virtual machines/servers and run applications.
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
What is the term for the process of converting categorical variables into numerical form?
Encoding
In Python, what is the term for a function that takes a function and an iterable as arguments and returns an iterator that applies the function to each item of the iterable?
MAP
Liability insurance that is in excess of specified other policies & also potentially primary insurance for losses not covered by a policy.
umbrella insurance
What’s the name of the professional golf tournament that Travelers became the title sponsor since 2007?
The Travelers Championship
MLOps solutions for building and training machine learning models for seamless deployment to the production environment is fully managed on this platform.
Amazon Sagemaker
Which algorithm is commonly used for gradient descent optimization in neural networks?
Backpropagation
What SQL keyword is used to join two tables without specifying a related column, returning the Cartesian product of the two tables?
CROSS JOIN
What is the cause of property loss called?
peril
What was the original logo for Travelers before the umbrella was implemented in the early 1900s?
knight
Name one serverless compute service provided by AWS
Lambda / AWS Fargate
What class of neural networks is used for sequential data, such as natural language processing and time series analysis? Hint: not a Transformer
RNN
What is the term used to describe a higher-order function that takes another function as input, extends or modifies its behavior, and returns a new function without altering the original function's code?
Decorator
This is a promise by one party to take responsibility for another party's debt if borrower defaults.
surety / surety bond
Travelers used to offer this type of insurance, but not any more since 2005.
life insurance
Name one non-relational database service that is provided by AWS.
DynamoDB / DocumentDB
What is the assumption in Linear Regression that states the variance of the residuals remains constant regardless of the values of the independent variables?
Homoscedasticity
What does PIP stand for?
Preferred Installer Program” or PIP Installs Packages