What are you working on?

jsalvatier

Whpearson recently mentioned that people in some other online communities frequently ask "what are you working on?". I personally love asking and answering this question. I made sure to ask it at the Seattle meetup. However, I don't often see it asked here in the comments, so I will ask it:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

I'm working on developing a logically consistent and reality-based method of calculating pension liabilities. Currently in the US, pension liabilities are computed differently for public pension plans funded by taxpayers vs. private sector pension plans funded by corporations. I think neither current method makes sense.

Financial economists argue that pension liabilities should be discounted at risk-free rates based on the probability of their being paid, using a model that treats accrued pension liabilities like a security. I disagree, and I'm conducting an experiment to see whether a complete proof for the financial economics position exists - with no gaps. All the relevant articles I am aware of are basically hand-waving.

Coming out in opposition to the current financial economics argument is a necessary prerequisite to putting forth my model, which I claim is also based on financial economics.

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