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The Multiverse ZineNo. 37July 28, 2024

West Coast afterglow, feet up in Miami

Multiverse West, Recapped

Liz looked back on Multiverse West, announced MindCraft co-research, and relaxed in Miami.

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Liz called Multiverse West a good time and credited the people who made it: Bug wrote up the event, Caitlin helped execute the plan, Roan and Gene built hyperstition, and Sergio captured the visuals. The planned values conversation never happened because the overlap was small, so it was pushed to August.

Multiverse East in Miami was mostly beach and dancing, with a few personalized strategy sessions. Back online, she opened a MindCraft co-research effort around a Society of Mind, with a project board and evening sessions. The school also had a new CTF up.

Multiverse Students Looking for Work

HELP ME GET THESE FOLKS HIRED. SERIOUSLY IF YOU WANT TO HELP, INTRODUCTIONS. People in this list don't live in high-density tech cities and need introductions.

  1. Kellyn von Arx Looking for UX, UI, and Product design, Gen AI. Has some Python & Git experience, some Prompt Engineering experience
  2. Mea Isaacs Highly Competent Novel Scale Senior Developer with Robotics and CyberSecurity looking for new opportunities changing what is possible with technology.
  3. Cameron Sweeney Looking for Back-End (Python, Math and Stats), Data, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering
  4. Liss McCabe Senior developer, looking for full-stack work in Ruby, Python, React, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering
  5. 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.
  6. Roan GOT A CONTRACT WE ALL KNEW YOU WOULD but still looking for a visa-sponsoring jobby job - 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

7/28/2024 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter

Hey Multiverse Crew,

I had such a good time at Multiverse West. I'm still absorbing all the stuff that happened. We're still a very scrappy, tiny startup, and what we can offer is limited largely to what I can personally offer. When I have help, and what I'm able to pull off is multiplied by each person who participates- so it really comes down to the participants to make the event. Bug really captured the heart of the event, much better than I could have. Caitlin really helped me to actually execute on the plan, Roan and Gene did excellent hyperstition-building and Sergio captured the visuals. It was incredible.

I'm in Miami 🏝️😎 soaking up the sun. Multiverse East was more dancing and beach than code code code, but we had a moment to do some personalized strategy sessions. Other than that- beach episode! Also innovation cycle conversations with Elena, because that's how I relax as it turns out.

I'm having fun exploring in the MindCraft research project, let's spend some time on this this week. I bet we can get to society-of-agents if we agree on some overlap periods.

We never did the values conversation, as the overlap was pretty small and we mostly focused on fun tests of engineering skills. I think we'll hold a values conversation in August, and reset the space.

Some of the families have updated, I've removed some, and some I haven't heard from in weeks but I don't know what's going on.

We're still a very scrappy, tiny startup

Liz

From this issue

This Week's Classes · Job Search Standup

Is back, and I'll remind everyone that AUGUST APPROACHES, THEN SEPTEMBER, THEN OCTOBER. After October 15th it's a miracle if you get hired, so you have roughly 12 weeks to get a job. Let's GOOOOOOOO

Mindcraft Co-Research Timeframe

Other than the times posted below, I'll be on in the later evenings (probably 7pm Pacific - 9pm Pacific, 10pm - 12pm Eastern) for the Society of Mind research we're doing. I'll also try to jump in for some of the daytime. Let's Work On This Together. This should be fun but also some legitimate research.

Monday, July 29

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 MindCraft Society of Mind

Let's hack on MindCraft together, see what kind of emergence we can target

02:00 PM Society of Mind

Automatically host a conversation between large language models Sign Up

Homework Summary:

Decompose an agent into a series of smaller agents Use Autogen to host a conversation between an actor and a critic

Tuesday, July 30

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 MindCraft Society of Mind

Let's hack on MindCraft together, see what kind of emergence we can target

05:00 PM Creating Open Source Agents

  • Create an open-source Agent
  • Host that Agent on Gradio
  • Configure an Open Source Agent to produce JSON
  • Implement Retry logic Sign Up

Wednesday, July 31

10:00 AM Wednesday Scrum

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

11:00 AM CyberSecurity - Red Team Kickoff

This is a great jumping in point. Get started hacking with Hack The Box challenges, for pursuing your CEH. Attendance is Multiverse Traveler Program Only

02:00 PM Autogen

Using open source software for large language models. Decompose a single agent into multiple agents. Sign Up

6:00 PM Narrative Alignment

The MindCraft crew should head in this time, we'll be creating some NPCs, with backstories, targeting emergence.

Thursday, August 01

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

10:15 AM Sprint Review and Retrospective

Demo what you got done this sprint! Sign Up

05:00 PM Allowing Open Source Agents to use Tools

Get the Open Source Tool-Using Agentic Flow working. Sign Up

Complex Adaptive Systems & Game Theory

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

Upcoming Tracks and Classes

Prompt Engineering - Spring Cohort

Agent Engineering - Open Source Toolchain starts Tuesday, July 30 05:00 PM

It's only $60, or $40 if you're underrepresented (the price was broken before)

Advanced Agent and Tool Engineering starts Tuesday August 6th at 5pm Pacific

Prompt Engineering - Fall Cohorts

People love prompt engineering! So we're running more cohorts of it. Check it out!

The 11 AM Monday-Wednesday Track intended to cater European attendees! Starts September 2, 2024

The 5PM Pacific Tuesday-Thursday Track intended to cater to the West Coast, starts October 8th, 2024

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