Multiverse School Newsletter - 02/04

Hey Multiverse Crew,

Wow, last week was incredible and exhausting! I've been on a break from TikTok, but I intend to get back to it now that everything's been kicked off. For those of you who said "I'm overwhelmed!" last week, this week will be much more relaxed but hopefully still as productive.

Job Search Standup

Don't forget to join the Job Search Standup every day at 9:00 AM. It's a crucial space to focus on job hunting or lead-gen activities. $20 is the weekly rate, which is just $5 a day. Multiverse students have it included as part of their tuition. So far, 50% of the 32 respondents to our survey got jobs! Hooray for y’all! We didn’t throw out any data (we got 32 respondents), but didn’t include anyone we didn’t hear back from. To be clear, this is a much lower rate than my average- probably my lowest since beginning teaching people to get jobs- I’m willing to chalk some of it up to the market, but I’d love your feedback on what might help you so please drop me an email if you have any thoughts about what’s not working for you. (last week the link was broken)

Interviews are Back!

We're interviewing for the February and March cohorts. We do an onboarding session once a month, typically aiming for between 4-8 people per cohort, so as not to dilute the community we've built up. You should have received an email if you sent in an application, if not email tag@themultiverse.school to set up an interview.

Machine Learning

This week we're working entirely on the assignment from last week- training a LoRA on some pre-formatted data, and then sourcing data for our own LoRAs. The hardest part of Data Science is Cleaning The Data, so this week (and next) will be focused solely on these elements.

Artificial Intelligence and Agents

This week we'll discuss Sparse Priming Representation- summarizing documents, datasets, and other bits of text into smaller more fact-focused details for use in a Retrieval Augmented Generation Chatbot.

Complex Adaptive Systems and Game Theory

Due to the overwhelm, this week we won't film a Complex Adaptive Systems podcast, so everyone can finish the readings. We'll likely go down to a bi-monthly filming of the podcast to accommodate everyone's schedules and workload. The second episode is available, but it's completely uncut and unedited. The edited version of the first podcast is in it's first round of editing, and is in review for me to add images and pictures. It should launch mid-February.

Learn to Code

Right now we don't have anyone in Learn To Code who is brand new to writing code, you've all created a little bit of code and we meet regularly enough, so for my sanity I'm going to cut Learn To Code on Thursdays until we get another cohort of new coders in. Tag is still running Operational Automation for Community Organizers opposite Learn to Code, so head on over there to get some help.

Storytelling - Detailed Character Profiles

Join us on Monday, January 29nd at 6:00 PM Pacific for a deeper dive on building character profiles, and what you really need in order to develop a plausible, sympathetic character. Francina Simone will be as usual running the program- this should help you if you're interested in writing your own character profile, playing well in TTRPGs, creating video game characters, or writing a novel or short story.

CyberSecurity - Let The War Games Begin

We're currently running an ai-enhanced wargame. See Liz to join a team- which side do you want, Blue Team (defenders) or Red Team (hackers)? This game will run all year and we'll productize, publish, or perish? at the end (and throughout). Probably only two of the three. Probably. This last Monday we agreed on the points of responsible disclosure if we're successful and set some sprint goals. This Monday we'll check-in and come up with a more detailed roadmap.

Operational Automation for Community Organizers

Tag is back teaching Operational Automation for Community Organizers again this week! There's about a trillion things you can do with no-code editors, so join us for more automations to make your life easier.

Junior Devs:

This week we'll run some Monte Carlo and other simulations against our respective games, the construction of which will provide us a scaffold for the rewrite of your original games. We also discussed RACI role definitions, please make sure to note who has helped you on your projects on your personal portfolio pages.

Senior Devs:

Last week we accounted for the large number of projects everyone is consulting on by introducing RACI role accounting. If you're consulting on a project, make a note of which ones you've spent at least 1 hour on. Add these to your Portfolio & LinkedIn. Try to time-box intra-school consulting on projects to 2 hours a week.

Research Teams:

Try to keep track of the roles in your team so that you can appropriately credit yourself and others. Teamwork on a research team is what drives the project towards a significant scope. You're both lending each other credibility and accounting for your time, so ensure you're aware of who is doing what. We're working on a Research Page on the website, so we'll be asking for more information for the purposes of bragging about you.

Important Links

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See you in the future~

Liz Howard