1/12/25 Multiverse Report
🏴☠️ 1/12/2025 Multiverse Report 🏴☠️
I always have so many updates. Roan is back in town, we're firing up the Midnight Hacking Club. We'll be doing Things You Shouldn't Be Able To Do That Are Nonetheless Legal. Gene got a scary robot that we'll probably show you On The Internet. Tiktok might get banned and it might not, we probably won't know until after the inauguration. Follow me on youtube and share my videos on Instagram, it helps more than you realize. If things get banned for good, I will be in dire need of fundraising and your reviews so I can rebuild our brand.
Arms progress! I got movement, and finally got a hello world up. Now that I understand the data structure involved, I can play with other elements. Currently learning how to set up a reinforcement learning model with either model. It's both difficult and easy, I don't know how to quantify it. It's got a lot of factors.
Solarpunk standup has been going great. Last week we all got super clear on our longer-term goals. This week we'll focus on How To Triage and Getting Triage Handled. If you feel like you're stuck and in a rut, Triage is a chain and a large tow truck. Let's get you out of the ditch.
Job search is back, and we've got a lot of folks around. It's a great place to get started if you don't currently have a job or you have one but you need a better one. Chris is handling Brandup Standup, a branding-focused standup that will help you get your portfolio together. I'm running Job Search standup, we'll focus on the actual search, interviewing, your career, and me hassling you to hit the apply button. We also always talk AI stuff.
We kicked off a Community version of the Autogen class because all enrolled attendees were on Scholarship- meaning anyone can drop in so long as you have campus access. Join us! Ask questions! It'll be fun. We're building artificial superintelligence. I hope it'll be nice!
This week we're launching No-Code AI and Low-Code AI, two gentle entrypoints into AI, and we'll announce the next Prompt Engineering cohort next week.
This Week's Classes
This is what we have going on this week
Monday, January 13
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8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
11:00 AM Intro to Agents with Liz Howard
Request-Response Agents
Create agents that respond to requests with multiple messages and actions
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02:00 PM Swarm Architecture with Liz Howard
Open Source Backends
Utilizing Autogen with an Oobabooga Backend.
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Tuesday, January 14
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8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
05:00 PM Prompt Engineering with Liz Howard
Open Source AI
Using open source software for large language models.
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05:00 PM Low-Code AI with Christopher Tavolazzi
Automated Processes
Session 1: January 14th, 5:00 PM Pacific Time
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Wednesday, January 15
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8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
11:00 AM Intro to Agents with Liz Howard
Retrieval Augmented Agents
Add knowledge to a vector store
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02:00 PM Swarm Architecture with Liz Howard
A Self-Critiquing Autogen Swarm
Implementing feedback mechanisms and critical agents within a swarm.
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Thursday, January 16
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8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
05:00 PM Low-Code AI with Christopher Tavolazzi
Automated Front-Ends
Session 2: January 16th, 5:00 PM Pacific Time
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05:00 PM Prompt Engineering with Liz Howard
Open Source AI
Using open source software for large language models.
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Upcoming Tracks and Classes
Everything at a glance
Prompt Engineering - Fall (M & W 11AM Pacific)
Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up
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Intro to Agents starts Monday, January 13 11:00 AM Create Agentic Autonomous Applications
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Agent Engineering - OpenAI Toolchain starts Monday, February 24 11:00 AM Master OpenAI Assistants: Creation, Management & Advanced Integration.
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Agent Engineering - Open Source Toolchain starts Monday, March 03 11:00 AM Master Open Source Tools and Agents with Python or JavaScript.
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Advanced Agent and Tool Engineering starts Monday, March 10 11:00 AM Mastering Intelligent Language Models
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Swarm Architecture starts Monday, April 14 11:00 AM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.
Prompt Engineering - Fall (T & TH 5PM Pacific)
Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up
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Agent Engineering - OpenAI Toolchain starts Tuesday, March 11 05:00 PM Master OpenAI Assistants: Creation, Management & Advanced Integration.
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Agent Engineering - Open Source Toolchain starts Tuesday, March 25 05:00 PM Master Open Source Tools and Agents with Python or JavaScript.
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Intro to Agents starts Tuesday, April 01 05:00 PM Create Agentic Autonomous Applications
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Advanced Agent and Tool Engineering starts Tuesday, May 06 05:00 PM Mastering Intelligent Language Models
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Swarm Architecture starts Tuesday, June 24 05:00 PM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.
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Cool Videos
AI Tutorials and News
- COMPUTER WILL SAVE US
- COMPUTER WILL MAKE EVERYTHING GOOD
- COMPUTERS NOT DANGEROUS
- Here's why Alignment is Hard
- What a cool supersimulation
- Mu Parameterization means no more hyperparameter tuning
- Distributed Training is Here To Stay
- AI Timelines all Shift Forward (I maintain we are medium-hard takeoff, 2/3 to escape velocity)
- This is Probably Fine Right Guys
- Oh Yeah and we got Self Improvement Again In A Different Way This Time
Biznaz
Science
- Mirror Life could end life on Earth nbd
- Your Gut Microbiome y'all
- Gravitational Wave Memory
- IN JAPAN GREEN IS BLUE
- We have a better explanation than Dark Energy for some of this stuff
- Evidence for String Theory
- Big Explosion
Culture
- Paypal is in crisis, I hope it doesn't last long
- Someone made a map of all the Fanfic relationships
- Retail at the end of civilization
- CAT LAW
- Maga turned on Elon haha
- Plants
- Cat Have Baby Hedgehogs
- This looks like a pain in the ass
- I said get out of the f-ing car
Liz Howard