Multiverse School Newsletter - 05/19
🚀 5/19/24 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter 🚀
Hey Multiverse Crew,
Well, I'm in San Francisco. My kid got married this week, without inviting me, and I'm pretty heartbroken about it. It's fine, kids usually need space in their early 20s and I knew we'd have some rough years due to being a kid when I had them myself. They seem to want the space and I'm not going to push it, just be sad about it instead. I didn't invite my own mom to my wedding, because I told myself it was just "the legal one" and then I never had another one so 🤷 karma comes for us all.
If you're in the bay, let me know!
Families in Gaza need our help.
I'm doing an Intro to Python course. __It's the only one I'll do all year___.
By the way the next cohort for Prompt Engineering begins June 17 It's Monday and Wednesday at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern.
If you're taking any two classes, this is a reminder that you should probably just do the all-you-can-attend membership.
This Week's Classes
Monday-Thursday @ 9am Job Search Standup
I may cut this for a few weeks in the summer, as it has low attendance and I would like to stay up later hacking on stuff into the night.
Monday-Thursday @ 10:30am Project Standup
Sign up for the next one here. or be a Multiverse Member. $60 for a 2-week project run.
Monday
Sprint Kickoff @ 10:30 with Liz
Time to Set some Manageable Goals, and do a brief retrospective on the last sprint.
Tuesday
Project Mob Programming @ 11AM with Liz
Complex Adaptive Systems & Game Theory
The reading for this month is Complex Adaptive Systems - Part 3: Computational Modeling Chapter 5: Computation as Theory
We will record this week! Unless everyone is unable to get to their readings. Please let me know if we don't have sufficient participation.
Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - Swarm Architecture
Implement Actor-Critic, Planner-Actor-Critic and Agent Hierarchy architectures.
Wednesday
11am CyberSecurity with Liz
Let's see if we can get a benchmark harness around a new model Bring a few hack-the-box challenges you have chosen that you have completed yourself
6pm Storytelling and Narrative Alignment with Francina
Thursday
Project Mob Programming @ 11AM with Liz
Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - AI Alignment
We'll dive back into Alignment, by talking about what ways an Autogen swarm can go wrong, and why all your dreams of autonomous agents that act on your behalf are actually terrifying nightmares. We have a much more in-depth evolving wiki on this, and a full course later in the year. [[1 - Start Here with AI Alignment]]. This is currently an unsolved extinction risk technology, using the very materials we've learned in class! You should probably not miss this session.
Upcoming Tracks
Intro to Python Begins May 27th
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
AI Tutorials and News
But First, The Drama
Sam Altman fired his whole superalignment team
Berman's Take on the Drama
The AI Adoption Curve
Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Explainer
The AI Arms Race
GPU-locked Models are Coming
Visualization of Thought
The Problem With Robots Is We Can Train Them Much Faster Than Real Time
RAG Knowledge Graphs
Single-Prompt Frontends
You Need To Get Bored
Humans Exist in Multiple Consciousnesses
Sam Altman Doing One Of Those Talks About AI
Biznaz
Psychology
Don't Get Manipulated
7 Signs You Have a Fear of Intimacy (oh no its me but also everyone I have ever dated what is going on here I am just going to Leave Earth)
The Genius Trap
I am going to be fine on my own
Why Everyone Feels Insane Right Now
Cyberpunk Dystopia
David McBride was Sentenced to Prison
Temu is Slavery
Comedy
Behold the Nuclear Synth
Oh No Is This What I Sound Like
See you in the future~
Liz Howard