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import React, { Component } from "react";
import logo from "./logo.svg";
import "./App.css";

class App extends Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {};
  }

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import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <p>hey everyone!</p>
    </div>
  );

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import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <header className="App-header">
        <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />

gregoryanderson

I chose to push myself with investigating Angular.

I have come to realize that almost everything comes with a short tutorial on how to create an 'Ideabox' with their application. So, first I googled Angular tutorial and, lo and behold, there was a very familiar tutorial. I needed to install Angular globally and all of those commands are parallel to what is run in React. In fact, React and Angular build a full working app from creation that will run. There are more similarties as well in that they both use components and the standard component build is named 'App' by default. But we also start seeing some differences early on, too. For instance, React uses Javascript by default, but it seems as though Angular uses Typescript. In order to understand this change, I spent a few minutes researching the differences between TS and JS.

So, the understanding that I came away with is that Typescript is a little more strict than Javascript and can actually be used in React, as well, it is just not there by default l

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Mod 5

What motivates you?

Small victories. I don't need big wins all the time, but it is helpful to get some wins on the board on my way to the final goal of obtaining a job.

How will you keep yourself going when faced with rejection in the job search?

I know that rejection is going to be a part of it and it will undoubtedly be hard, but I need a job and I will go until I get one. Probably some help from Jun though, too.

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# DTR: Define the Relationship

Use this template to when conducting DTR with your project partners. *It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation.* 


## Palette Picker

## Oct 7-17

### Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

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Application for Job Mentorship Program

Gregory Anderson

Short Answer Reponses

Why do you want mentoring in the job search?

I would like mentoring for many reasons. I have not been an active job seeker for many years. Having a second voice in that process will be refreshing and focusing. But more importantly, having a mentor in this process will be incredibly beneficial to keep my head right throughout my search. I will most likely be dealing with some rejection and that is never fun. It would be incredibly useful to have someone remind me that I am not an imposter, but rather, a software developer.

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How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us

Three Key Takeaways

First, I enjoy how the speaker appeals to the human. In convention-style talks often there is this sort of ubermensch mentality. As in, 'How do we progress to the point where we are greater than what we already are?'. Here, she is saying that the human is just fine. We feel and experience incredible things. Rather than creating an AI that does things above the standards that are human, let us give the greatest gift to it, and that is our feelings and experiences. The gift of feeling human.

Next, we have quite a ways to go, but not really. For the AI to see a photo of a house burning down and respond with, 'This is

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I will be reaching out to a number of people in both my own and my wife's network. As a Turing grad, my wife has built up a network of people that I have become familiar with, through meet-ups and just general hanging out. I am a former member of the defense/intelligence community and have a few contacts there that I would like to take advantage of with my newly acquired skills.

I intend to make contact with them midway through mod3. I believe at that time I will see the end of Turing a bit more clearly and can give them an accurate timeline of when I would become available.

The follow-up will come in a variety of forms. For those that I am closer to, it will be actual conversations about what may be available to me. For those that I have not contacted in awhile, it will be just making them aware that I have graduated this program and check in to see what they are up to. Ideally, we speak about available jobs they may know about for me as well.

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When I left my job at the preschool, it was to look for something more. I loved how imaginiations would take my days in any direction, but reality would set in at the end of the day: When I was watching the kids, someone else was earning a paycheck at a fulfilling career. I knew that the military was not going to make me into a money factory, but the insurance was great and, at the very least, it would open some doors. Soon after completing an 18 month intensive course in Arabic, I found myself running a 24/7/365 Top Secret mission for the NSA- an opportunity that I would have never dreamed that I would be doing just a few years earlier. While there, I began working with some technical applications and was introduced to my first development language: Python, and realized the incredible power it had in simplifying my job. As my contract with the Army came to an end, I knew that I was ready for the next challenge in my life and that was to become a software developer.