Multiverse School Newsletter - 05/05
🚀 5/5/24 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter 🚀
Hey Multiverse Crew,
Happy Cinco De Mayo, to people in the United States because that is the only place it is really celebrated. I mean I am glad Mexico is independent, but I think it has more of a holiday vibe for me than any of the people it affects. In other news I am moving to San Francisco because I am single again and I need to get the f- out of Portland and be with the main body of my friend group so bad oh my god and my friend offered me a place, so I'll be there! Now I won't miss the Singularity when it happens because I'll be down the street from OpenAI (so the nanobot wave will overtake me first).
This Week's Classes
Monday-Thursday @ 9am Job Search Standup
is out this week. Sorry y'all I am going through a breakup so I am taking two weeks off from waking up early instead of one. There will probably be community body-doubling so feel free to hop in for free, I may drop in.
Monday-Thursday @ 10:30am Project Standup
Is on but we're mid-sprint.
Sign up for the next one here. or be a Multiverse Member. $60 for a 2-week project run.
Monday
Lots of 1:1s. Bring me the projects you are working on and let me see them!
Jr Devs @ 4pm: Project Help
Tuesday
Senior Devs @ 11am with Liz - NATS: Agent-Writing-Agent
We'll attach an Agent-Writing-Agent to NATS so that we can request new agents be built and attached to the NATS swarm.
Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - Society of Mind
Decompose Agents into an actor-critic model with Autogen
Complex Adaptive Systems and Game Theory
The reading for next month is Complex Adaptive Systems -Part 3: Computational Modeling Chapter 5: Computation as Theory. We won't meet or record until after we get back from the next break.
Wednesday
CyberSecurity @ 11am
Time to write some tools together, a working session on whatever we're calling this thing
Thursday
Senior Devs @ 11am with Liz: Probably Project Help
Bring your complex projects
Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - Autogen
We'll use Autogen to implement an agent hierarchy to produce a complex multi-part artifact.
Program Updates
Scholarship Opportunities
CS Master's Student Fellowship Program - For Master's Students, do a complex, non-trivial project involving cutting edge AI that you can bring some newbies along with to see a really cool thing get made, get a major break on tuition.
Executives - Run a cutting edge project at the forefront of AGI and then publish it and help it get monetized. Goal is a financial return on the investment of your time as well as a transformative experience of your leadership practice and is often an emotional breakthrough experience. Ask anyone who has gone through it. Major price break on tuition for the contribution towards a project.
Underrepresented in Tech - There's a special price on every page, self-select into this group please, it's 30% off for you. Please discuss with me- I can only admit so many scholarship students and it will take me time to process your request. We can't do 100% scholarships but we can offer some substantial discounts given a description of your circumstances.
Once a Year Learn to Code Bootcamp This Summer, Begins May 27th
I am going to offer Payment Arrangements for the coding bootcamp so if the cost is too much, let me know.
Important Links
Cool Videos
That SHOCK the ENTIRE INDUSTRY
AI Tutorials and News
Phase Transitions in LLMs
Another Cool Robot Does Anyone Really Think We Will Have Robot Butlers It Just Seems Like They Have Been Promising That For A Long Time Now
GPT-5 IMMINENT
The Langchain Guy Gave A Talk
Text-to-Frontend
S-Risk
Silicon Valley Is Trying To Abundance Mindset Their Way Out Of A Downturn And It Doesn't Seem Good
A Robot-Evolving Simulation
CyberPunk Dystopia
This Kind of Stuff Happens All The Time
The Revolution
Deleware Isn't Real
Sex Workers are taking a hit in pay, Recession Imminent
Psychology
One Question to Understand Who You Are
Allostatic Load
Agents Theory for Humans
The Myth of Individualism
Get Bored to Get More Done
Our Secret Wish To Never Find Love
Beliefs Tier List
Every Manipulation Tactic Explained in 12 Minutes
Dating Women Made Me Understand Men Too, Ana
See you in the future~
Liz Howard