Multiverse School Newsletter - 05/26
🚀 5/26/24 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter 🚀
Hey Multiverse Crew,
This week I move into my new place! I feel so much better in the Bay Area. I'm still heartbroken so I'm a little low on organizing-hangouts juice. Also we're kicking off the Intro to Python class so it's what I'm zoned into. Today is the last day to sign up! I won't do another one this year, so don't miss out!
Families in Gaza need our help.
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
Intro to Python @ 10am Pacific
Intro to Command Line, Install-a-thon, Virtual Environments
Intro to Python @ 1pm Pacific
Variables, Control Structures, and Managing Files
Tuesday
Intro to Python @ 10am Pacific
All about Functions
Intro to Python @ 1pm Pacific
Data Structures! Lists and Dictionaries
Prompt Engineering @ 5pm with Liz - Metalanguages and Meta-Narratives
Build a metalanguage to constrain output from an AI
Wednesday
Intro to Python @ 10am Pacific
More on File Handling (it gets complex), and Dates
Intro to Python @ 1pm Pacific
Build an Entire ToDo List Application
2pm Transformers from Scratch
Teja Sunku is walking us through Transformers (robots in disguise... no wait, I mean machine learning Transformers) by coding them from scratch, and covering all the prerequisite topics in a fun and engaging way that everyone (including Teja) would describe as "unhinged", which is very on-brand for The Multiverse.
6pm Storytelling and Narrative Alignment with Francina
Francina has a sacred duty to help you don some plot armor and write yourself a new tale. This will help you with prompt engineering. It is only available to current full-time Multiverse Traveler Program students.
Thursday
Intro to Python @ 10am Pacific
Back to Functions, for more advanced stuff like Scope, Arguments, and Abstraction
Intro to Python @ 1pm Pacific
Build your own Modules in Python! We'll create a Library quickly and publish it to pip
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 and Classes
Intro to Python Begins May 27th
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.
Complex Adaptive Systems & Game Theory
The reading for this month is: Complex Adaptive Systems - Part 3: Computational Modeling Chapter 5: Computation as Theory We'll record June 4th, as discussed with participants
Important Links
Cool Videos
AI Tutorials and News
Don't forget, Sam Altman fired his whole superalignment team and many other safety researchers are quitting over lack of compute for their research. It's up to all of us now.
Thankfully we've gained some ground on AI Safety Research - safe.ai is doing really cool inference-level alignment with control vectors - I particularly liked this post so we're gonna have to try this out after the Learn to Code classes conclude.
- Don't forget about the CTF
- This really is most companies but uh Altman himself taught all the companies that use this to use this when he ran YCombinator let's not forget about him running YCombinator when he pleads that he didn't know about the language in the docs
- Representation Engineering yall
- OpenUI is Open Source V0.dev
- An Overview of Microsoft's Build Event they are going ham y'all
- Microsoft is spending all the money to build supercompute for better LLMs I am unsure what the results will be
- A RAG-retrieval optimized model
Biznaz
Programming
- I told you that you don't usually really need a front end framework unless you're doing mobile
- Non-Euclidian Doom
- Uh, ok they have automated backend engineering but don't worry you'll have to be an engineer to use it
Psychology
- How To Express What You Need
- How To Overcome Psychological Barriers
- How to Introduce Yourself
- Are Men... Okay?
Cyberpunk Dystopia
- A Minimum Viable Comms Strategy for organizing the revolution, learn this before we need it
- Job Searching Without A Network Sucks
- CoPilot+ in Windows is Very Much Government Spyware Don't Get It Twisted
- This Zero Day Thing Got Shut Down
- The NSA just Buys your Internet History
- Listen y'all have to stop doing this or the dead internet theory will become true
Comedy
See you in the future~
Liz Howard