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The Multiverse ZineNo. 34July 7, 2024

Ship something or sit down. Demo day rules.

Demo Day, If You Ship

Liz called for demo day signups, kept making introductions for students who had shipped work, and planned autonomous-agent sessions.

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The school was back in action after a break week. Liz said a demo day would happen only if enough people had something to show, and that her personal introductions for job seekers depended on whether a student had shipped something she could use to represent their skills.

The Monday and Tuesday Traveler Program sessions worked on autonomous agents, and the week included a Creating OpenAI Assistants class on managing swarms. The Multiverse West group also went to the Grey Area Summer Showcase in person. There was no update on the families in Rafah.

7/7/2024 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter

Hey Multiverse Crew,

We're back in action and I'm.... alive! For sure. 🧟 Things Seem To Be Bad and like they aren't going to get better but we must press on, for what else is there to do, lay down and die? Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I'll just begin fomenting revolution now, just in case.

We will be doing a demo day if enough folks have something to demo. Please fill out this form.

Otherwise I'm mostly still doing personal introductions based on whether or not you've shipped something I can use to represent your skills.

Don't forget:

Families in Rafah need our help.

We got two families out, and 3 are trapped in Rafah. No updates so far.

Prompt Engineering starts July 15th

This is for folks who are either already programmers, or have attended Using Large Language Models and feel comfortable asking ChatGPT or another language model to write code for them. We also have a fair number of programmers who are happy to help you get through the bugs- that's what we do, we fix bugs.

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Multiverse Students Looking for Work

Everyone here has learned the cutting-edge Gen AI stuff we teach here, but now they're looking for work! Not everyone here has a network and could use your help! Please do me a favor and help these folks out with some introductions! You can hire them away BUT you are depriving me of their brain so it better be for a lot of moolah.

Here they are again in a different order! Order implies nothing, so I'm trying to mix it up every week. They're all fantastic, their main skill overlap is Generative AI.

  1. Mea Isaacs Novel Scale Senior Developer with Robotics and CyberSecurity looking for new opportunities changing what is possible with technology.
  2. Roan Looking for CyberSecurity Red Team (pen testing) work, Gen AI work, working with me on The Swarm of Hacking AIs, has Python and CyberSecurity in spades, and TAs at The Multiverse School
  3. Razi Alawamleh Looking for Front-End (React & React Native) and Back-End work, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering, and does a great job with Product thinking.
  4. Cameron Sweeney Looking for Back-End (Python, Math and Stats), Data, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering
  5. Kellyn von Arx Looking for UX, UI, and Product design, Gen AI. Has some Python & Git experience, some Prompt Engineering experience
  6. Liss McCabe Senior developer, looking for full-stack work in Ruby, Python, React, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering
  7. Gene Hwang Jr. Dev and Researcher looking for Data and Backend roles. Gene is our most prolific TA who is absolutely instrumental to me in keeping eyes out for new Gen AI research.

Important Links

  1. We have the old CTF up still, next cohort up soon
  2. Sign Up Here
  3. Tell Us If You Got A Job!
  4. The Hot New Website

Upcoming Tracks and Classes · Prompt Engineering · Prompt Engineering - Summer Cohort

Agent Engineering - OpenAI Toolchain Tuesday and Thursday, July 09 & 11 @ 5:00 PM

Prompt Engineering starts Mondays and Wednesdays, July 15 @ 2:00 PM Pacific

This is for folks who are either already programmers, or have attended Using Large Language Models and feel comfortable asking ChatGPT or another language model to write code for them. We also have a fair number of programmers who are happy to help you get through the bugs- that's what we do, we fix bugs.

This Week's Classes · Job Search Standup

Is back on, see you at 9, ya punks

This Week's Classes

Monday, July 08

10:00 AM Monday Scrum

A 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours. Discuss what was accomplished yesterday, what will be attempted today, and any obstacles that may impact your progress. Sign Up

11:00 AM Multiverse Travelers Program

Let's work on Autonomous Agents

Tuesday, July 09

10:00 AM Tuesday Scrum -

A 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours. Discuss what was accomplished yesterday, what will be attempted today, and any obstacles that may impact your progress. Sign Up

11:00 AM Multiverse Travelers Program

Let's work on Autonomous Agents Attendance is Multiverse Traveler Program Only

05:00 PM Creating OpenAI Assistants

Explore the basics of creating OpenAI Assistants and managing swarms. This session focuses on practical applications and hands-on development. Sign Up

7:00 PM (Multiverse West On-Site) Grey Area

Grey Area Summer Showcase

Sorry this is not a multiverse-run event so we can't offer streaming of this, we're just hanging out here in person.

Wednesday, July 10

10:00 AM Wednesday Scrum

It is Weird Wednesday, wear your weirdest outfit to scrum! Sign Up

11:00 AM CyberSecurity

Hacking the planet Attendance is Multiverse Traveler Program Only

5:00 PM (Multiverse West On-Site) Cloudflare

Rooftop Hack Night @ Cloudflare

Sorry this is not a multiverse-run event so we can't offer streaming of this, we're just hanging out here in person.

06:00 PM Storytelling & Narrative Alignment with Francina Simone

Storytelling, Narrative, and Character development with Francina, who helps debug your creativity and your personal narrative, and work on your stories. Attendance is Multiverse Traveler Program Only

Thursday, July 11

10:00 AM Thursday Scrum

A 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours. Discuss what was accomplished yesterday, what will be attempted today, and any obstacles that may impact your progress. Sign Up

10:00 AM Sprint Review and Retrospective

Review the work completed and adapt the backlog if needed. Discuss what went well and what could be improved. Sign Up

11:00 AM Multiverse Travelers Program

Let's work on Autonomous Agents Attendance is Multiverse Traveler Program Only

05:00 PM Allowing OpenAI Assistants to Use Tools

Dive into adding OAI-Formatted functions to OpenAI Assistants and managing tool use. This session emphasizes advanced integration techniques and practical strategies. Sign Up

Friday, July 12

12:00 PM Storytelling Hour

About actually telling your stories, and getting to have other people hear them. Technology has a strong oral tradition, most people learn a lot from the stories of others, so we like to share what we can about life, tech, and our own journey. Francina will choose on Wednesday who will speak on Friday, so be there if you want to tell a story! Attendance is Multiverse Traveler Program Only

Saturday, July 13

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM (Multiverse West On-Site) Society of Agents Hackathon

This is not a multiverse-run event, we just intend to swarm this as a team and CRUSH THEM, join us if you're in the area, and if you want to remote in and help swarm, let us know, we can go multi-agent on this thing.

Complex Adaptive Systems & Game Theory

We're filming next week! Read this so we can beat the hackathon :D

The reading for this month is: Complex Adaptive Systems: Part 3: Computational Modeling, Chapter 6: Agent Based Objects

Part 4: Models of Complex Adaptive Social Systems: Chapter 7: A Basic Framework, Chapter 8: Complex Adaptive Social Systems in One Dimension

See you in the near-term future~

Liz Howard

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