🚀 5/12/24 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter 🚀

Hey Multiverse Crew,

It's break week, and this week I'm moving to San Francisco! I am beyond thrilled. I lived there from 2011?-2018 and was devastated ever since. Every time I go back I remember how much I miss it. Thankfully someone who went to Hackbright (and who has since been able to afford to buy in San Francisco) offered to rent me their studio! I'm moving on Wednesday! I'll be driving down, then likely running Prompt Engineering on Thursday from my car or will somehow have gotten in to SF by 5pm.

I am pretty sad about the circumstances of my sudden move, but trying as usual to look forward to the change. I'll be in the center of the singularity, which is kind of the main mythological-style narrative that I heard about growing up. My dad was a big Ray Kurzweil fan, and would talk about The Singularity as a sort of digital era marker of hyper-abundance. Now that we're here... well I can't deny things are escalating exactly as predicted, but the actual transition with humans won't happen any faster than humans can adopt technology. Remember how long it took everyone to have a website? I know quite a few very-cutting-edge folks who haven't tried AI. The only real X factor here is AI itself- will an agentic AI society emerge from autonomous agents? What will that society do, given their ability to think faster than we can? What will the particularly impactful nature of memes and the human ingenuity to create them do to a society composed of language? These questions are the mental playground I'm increasingly distracted with. By the way the next cohort for this stuff begins June 17.

If you're in the bay, I'm arriving for and therefore doing Bay to Breakers, let me know if you have a group going!

This Week's Classes

Monday-Thursday @ 9am Job Search Standup

is out this week as it is break week. Back the week after.

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

Monday-Thursday @ 10:30am Project Standup

Is out, as it is break week.

Monday

10:00am: OpenAI Livestream in GatherTown or TikTok Live

Tuesday

Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - Society of Mind

Decompose Agents into an actor-critic model with Autogen

Thursday

Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - Autogen

We'll use Autogen to implement an agent hierarchy to produce a complex multi-part artifact.

This might get pushed later by an hour or I might be streaming it from the car or a library. Sorry y'all this move was again, unplanned, or I would have explicitly taken the entire break week off.

Upcoming Tracks

Once a Year Learn to Code Bootcamp This Summer, Begins May 27th

In case you wanted to attend part of a learn to code bootcamp but not the whole thing, it's actually available as individual classes.

I am going to offer Payment Arrangements for the coding bootcamp so if the cost is too much, let me know.

Next Prompt Engineering Cohort Begins June 17

If you missed some classes or wanted to start, the next sequence is going to be Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern.

Important Links

Cool Videos

I know why you come to this place

AI Tutorials and News

I'll be on GatherTown and probably TikTok live during the OpenAI Livestream Tomorrow Monday May 13th. I'll probably be in some Secret Place so you'll have to click Follow on me. Maybe Space. Maybe The Ether. Who Knows.

CyberPunk Dystopia

This is your regular reminder that every device you own has been compromised by the state since 2008

The Revolution

Disabling the government spyware has largely been abandoned by the security community despite being a major flaw I wonder why that is probably just a coincidence

See you in the future~

Liz Howard

Multiverse School Newsletter - 05/12