We've never been accepted, but my experience with application process indicates this isn't strictly true. We're not getting any more charismatic, but they have continued to show interest in us applying. Not sure if that's what everyone gets or not.
It doesn’t sound like you’re applying online, so this might not apply but:
Write the most fragile resume parser you can. Now make it so your resume can be parsed by it. This made a world of difference for me last go around.
I honestly had no idea JAX was useful outside autograd, due to my own tunnel vision. I even used it with other libraries to do this kind of work. Is there a term for this type of mistake?
A gridlocked political system is not guaranteed to create "good legislation" as Scalia puts it, take US as a prime example of that, almost every legislation is packed with pork and other things unrelated to the legalisation itself.
To Scalia defence he might have meant "not awful legislation", like avoid harming a minority, because of the bicameral legislature. But good legislation? No.
It is true that in Europe it is common to mix the legislative and the executive with the same election and thus chamber. However in Sweden the executive power is divided in half, with the elected prime minister with his cabinet (regeringen) on the one hand and the independent government agencies (myndigheter) on the other. This is a separation of powers that US doesn't have.
And it is in the executive that has the highest risk of political corrupt behaviour, because it deals with all the practical details of running a country, therefore separating the executive into two separate branches, the elected and the civil servants, creates better protection against political corruption.
Scalia main argument is that US can't become the Soviet union because of the bicameral gridlock built into the system, however what we have seen in the US when the legislature is politically paralyzed is that the executive, and to some extent the judiciary, has encroached on the legislative powers.
How many of the wars that US has been involved in since the second world war has been formally approved constitutionally by the senate? Zero.
Did President Obama execute a US citizen without a trial? Yes.
This is a gap in Scalias argument, the executive power is too unrestricted, hence it is the US executive power that will be removing citizen rights from the citizenry, not the legislature.
Let's remember that Scalia was a judge, not a political theorist or a legislative expert. Scalia's expertise would be the operation of the judiciary, courtrooms, etc.
> However in Sweden the executive power is divided in half, with the elected prime minister with his cabinet (regeringen) on the one hand and the independent government agencies (myndigheter) on the other. This is a separation of powers that US doesn't have.
The US does have not have this. That's why Biden couldn't fire the postmaster general, or the fed chair, or numerous other posts. Yes, the
President fills the leadership roles when they are available, but they don't totally control many agencies.
Compare the US Department of Justice with the equivalent in Sweden, in Sweden that would be split in multiple different organisations first with Departement of Justice, headed by the minister of Justice (elected politician) and a staff of civil servants, but they don't handle any criminal cases.
Thus there is several other government agencies like Riksåklagare (Prosecutor-General), Polismyndigheten (Police Authority), Säkerhetspolisen (Security Service), Ekobrottsmyndigheten (Economic Crime Authority) etc all independently governed by civil servants.
This is a central part of the Swedish constitution and is tradition that dates back several hundred years.
> We don’t have the stats on how many people the active braking has saved from a collision.
In the article, there were several links at the bottom with stats on the impact on Volvo cars in the US: https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2111.
The stats aren't directly equivalent, but I think it helps to support your argument.
It's difficult to know, because sometime the course have 100 students, and each day different students make questions to each TA. My guess is 10%-50%, but it depends a lot on the major the students are.
One of the useful trick is to write an optional homework exercise in the blackboard. I get a lot more of answers than just selecting an exercise from the official list. Sometimes it's just an exercise from the list with different number and sometime it has an intermediate step to make it easier. But writing it in the blackboard increase the chance the students will write it down.
Another trick is to write an old midterm and then go to each desk to talk to the students about what they are doing. We usually write the solution at the end of the class, and have some discussion about it, but the useful part is the discussion with each student (or small group of 2-3 students).
Our state has a program that covers tuition if you are in-state, received good grades in high school, and continue to maintain those.
Of my (undergraduate) classmates, I believe 60% were out of state, including out of country. Unfortunately, most that came from states with similarly ranked public schools did not have access to a similar program in those states.
My payments to the university totaled $60k for 7 years, undergraduate and masters. (I lost full tuition coverage my first year.)
