Multiverse School Newsletter - 02/25

🚀 2/25 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter 🚀 Hey Multiverse Crew,

Everyone is burnt out, again. It's almost as if people need regular breaks or they can't maintain a steady pace at all. Go figure. Chill at home and listen to The First Episode of the podcast.

As a response, we're making some changes to the schedule! Also, this week will again be a catch-up week. We'll film everything we do. I need some time off myself so I can finish publishing things about y'all.

Also, I have updated themultiverse.school - these newsletters are up, and I've posted Several New Classes. We're also going to offer per-class pricing, with the "all-you-can-attend" pricing mostly as a cap on your monthly costs as a student.

Job Search Standup

This week, we're taking a break from Job Searching. We're right at the end of February, and some folks got new jobs! We're mostly taking a break because I need to sleep in for about a week so I can do some late-night work to retool the program, but also a whole lot of folks got jobs and are starting them. Feel free to show up if you'd like for community, but I can't guarantee I'll be there this week.

Let me know here if you got a job, it helps me out and makes me want to keep doing this.

Program Updates

This week and going forward we're dropping Fridays from all classes. Live your lives! Be human beings. Touch grass and the like.

Learn to Code Bootcamp This Summer

I'm grouping everyone who needs to learn to code together this summer. We'll do a very structured walkthrough of the basics. I've got a page together describing the bootcamp program - those of you who want to do a whole cohort program around learning to code from scratch can sign up there. We still have a unified application for all programs, so if you want to attend, check the "Learn To Code" box on the main application in order to apply.

Executives Program Invites Out This Week

Look for something in your email. Invite-only.

Machine Learning

Is suspended. All paying students who were enrolled have dropped out - I told y'all you wanted to learn Agents, not Machine Learning. This is kinda what I anticpated.

Artificial Intelligence and Agents

Tool Use, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation are the main topics this week.

Complex Adaptive Systems and Game Theory

The First Episode is Live

Read Part 1 (to page 33 of the book) of Finite and Infinite Games. Read chapter 3 and 4 of Game Theory - you do not need to deeply understand all of the math, but it may help to understand Bayes's Theorm in order to follow the math more easily.

This week we'll film the full episode.

Storytelling

Francina will be back this week, and is launching her own alchemy course. Buy her books to support her through Chaos, they are in earnest Very Good Books and you and several other folks would enjoy them. Multiverse students have a code to join her class for free [here)(https://publish.obsidian.md/themultiverseschool/School+Structure/Faculty/Francina+Simone).

CyberSecurity - The Wargames are Heating Up

Plan is together, this week let's check in and do some hacking together.

Operational Automation for Community Organizers

More low-code no-code automations happening this week. If you haven't got some of your pipelines automated, come to class! It's body doubling, automation consulting, and workflow design all in a handy-dandy place.

Junior Devs:

Last week we began the Agent Chatroom project. It's being chronicled on this page in order. This week and next we'll implement the 3 main patterns of agent behavior: Respond to @mention, Do Something On A Schedule, and Summarizer patterns. Last, we'll persist chat with a database and deploy it.

Senior Devs:

This week we'll talk Authentication by implementing it. Come to watch and ask questions, a non-participatory session.

Research Teams:

Currently I have the following projects on my radar. Please let me know if I have a project wrong.

FamilyTraditions: A cultural culinary archival project, group type, focusing on preserving Middle Eastern cultural culinary traditions. It uses OCR to digitize recipes and leverages ChatGPT for natural language processing to generate shopping lists and save details about recipes still in development, with a focus on portable, open storage mechanisms.
TreeOfAttacks - Network Compromise: A group project aimed at identifying and analyzing network vulnerabilities and attack vectors to develop defense and mitigation strategies.
TreeOfAttacks - Reverse Engineering: A group project focused on dissecting and understanding the inner workings of various software and systems to identify vulnerabilities and methods for enhancement.
Automated DM: A personal project for developing an automated direct messaging system to streamline communication processes.
Life Gamification: A personal project applying game design principles to everyday life for motivation and productivity enhancement.
Community Automation: A group project by Matthew and Al focused on creating moderation and community management bots in a chatroom environment.
JASON: A group project developing a Job Search tool that builds a custom resume for each job application, based on a comprehensive resume.json that includes all your duties and works.

Important Links

Cool Videos

See you in the future~

Liz Howard