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Turing School Prework - LUCY

Task A- Practice Typing:

• screenshots of scores will be posted in comments

Task B- Algorithmic Thinking & Logic:

• screenshots of completed sections will be posted in comments

Task C- Create your Gist:

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#Landing Techniques for Mars Rovers Lucy Conklin, Mars super-nerd Lightning Talk 10/27/2016

##Challenges Overview Mars is like super far away, between 4 and 20 light minutes away. Effectively we can't steer these things or correct their trajectories. They have to be smart enough to land themselves and that takes a lot of programming and carefully packing redundant systemts.

Really expensive, cutting edge equipment has to survive being shot into space, travelling to another planet for up to a year, landing on said planet, and still work.

The Martian atmosphere is very thin and it's environment very harsh. Its about 96% carbon dioxide and less than 1% oxygen. This is good because air resistance is not going to be nearly as problematic as landing on earth, and the gravity is much weaker. Also temperatures range between -197 and 104 F.

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Module 1 Week 4 Diagnostic

This exercise is intended to help you assess your progress with the concepts and techniques we've covered during the week.

For these questions, write a short description or snippet of code that meets the requirement. In cases where the question mentions a "given" data value, use the variable given to refer to it (instead of re-writing the information).

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#Black Thursday Project Retro

###A. What was an opportunity for improvement in your group?

We should have kept going and pushed through an extension or added iteration 5 because we had time. OR we should have
taken a break after we were done on Monday to relax.

### B. What was your role?

I was the main driver for the concepts and did most of the coding in the way I work best which is to try a lot of different things in rapid succession.

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* How would you describe the "realities" of our future economy? What constraints and opportunities will we face as a nation?

Transportation jobs are going to be eliminated, as well as more manufacturing jobs, and probably customer service jobs. There is going to be more unemployment and an increasingly higher education bar (just having a college degree now does not guarantee you a good job)

* What's your reaction to hearing tech leaders like Elon Musk describe UBI as a "foregone conclusion"?

In the best case yes! That would be wonderful. I think it is going to be a tough sell though. SF is a great place to try it out because it is small, VERY liberal, and has a lot of money right now. Their health insurance program seems to be well run (although I did not have a good experience with it).

* Write a quick elevator pitch synthesizing what you've read from these articles: what is UBI, why is it entering policy debates, what do you think people should know about automation and its affect on our workforce?

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Lucy Conklin Module 4 Action Plan

Module 4 Goals

By the last week of Mod 4 I would like to have at least one job offer.

Achieve 100 Rejections inspired by this

Strategy To Achieve Goals:

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M4 Reflection

What brought you to Turing?

I had a "dream job" as a science illustrator. When people asked me about it, I was excited to tell them about the work I did. It combined my loves of art and science, and I enjoyed working with students and constantly learning new technologies. But I had a secret. My work as a part-time adjunct professor, and my freelance clients were not bringing in enough money to support myself. This was compounded by the fact that I was struggling to pay off the $60k in student load debt I had taken on to get a graduate degree. When I talked to other people in the field, many admitted that being an illustrator was only possible because they were in a dual income situation. Every day I felt like I was selling my students a lie. Here I was teaching them to be science illustrators, when I couldn't even support myself. I knew I needed to make a big change if I wanted to reach any of my long term goals, or even support myself in the short term.

I had been tinkering with my o

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Turing Career Development: Automation

Our suggested improvements:

• it is not reflected in this markdown, but we really enjoyed lining up in order of interest
• Is there a TED talk? Yes.
• could be more balanced: can we find a video for that? One that possibly touts the benefits of automation? Maybe the kinds of jobs that would be replaced are dangerous, and people would benefit from not doing them.
• white collar jobs are also on the chopping block: traffic lawyer bot, coding actually could be automated.
• come up with a job that would be automated. What are the downstream effects? Who's jobs are at risk? Who are the winners and losers?
• flip flop arguments. If you are for automation, you will argue against automation and vice versa.
• can we use sci-fi, fiction, Black Mirror?

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Lucy's Open Source Contribution Proposal

Option 1: Pivotal Tracker Gem

Pros:

1. I can make a significant code contribution
2. I know the main contributer
3. High likelihood of PR being accepted

Cons:

1. Not really the point of the assignment, I should collaborate with relative strangers

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Cold Outreach Email Summaries

Lucy Conklin, 1610BE M4 deliverables

1. Augusta Bootcamp

About:

Brand new LAMP stack bootcamp in target area of Augusta, GA.

Contact:

Eric Parker

Date: