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The Multiverse ZineNo. 13February 11, 2024

Scourge boots up and hallucinates

Scourge Wakes Up

The red-team AI Scourge came online in the wargame, three students landed work, and the school said you need not attend every class.

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This issue is dressed as Hexatron

The cybersecurity wargame got its red-teaming AI, Scourge, running. It was hallucinating command-line output at that point, and Ari Lerner was invited to watch and help make it more dangerous.

Three people from the Job Search Standup got contracts or jobs the week before. Liz also told students they do not need to attend every class, since classes will rerun, and that dropping projects to switch goals is fine.

The school announced new pricing and formats for full-time software engineering, part-time graduate students and executives. Machine Learning moved to data gathering and web scraping, and the Complex Adaptive Systems class filmed its third podcast episode. Junior devs finished a game with a Model, View, Controller front end.

Hey Multiverse Crew,

This week we’re working on making even more changes to how things work, in order to support the many kinds of folks who drift through our corner of The Multiverse. Some people feel like they should be coming to every single class in order to get the most out of their time here- this will only fragment your efforts and slow you down. I offer a lot of content at the same time, the program isn’t designed for you to attend every single class. Don’t worry, we will rerun classes again! The second time will even usually be more polished. Audit things that pique your interest, but try to remain focused on what you want. Don’t be afraid to drop projects or classes if you want to change what you’re working on- Sometimes Success Means Switching Goals.

Job Search Standup

Don't forget to join the Job Search Standup every day at 9:00 AM. Last week 3 people got contracts or jobs! Things are moving forward, and looking up.

Let me know here if you got a job, it helps me out and makes me want to keep doing this.

Audit things that pique your interest, but try to remain focused on what you want.

Liz Howard

Program Updates

We’re working on a new format & pricing structure for the various groups. If you’re currently enrolled, no worries, nothing will change for you. For new folks, we’re rolling out different pricing structures for Full-Time Software Engineering, Part-Time Graduate Students, and Executive Leadership & Management. This means if you’ve been worried about the pricing of attending The Multiverse School, you might want to have a new conversation with Tag by emailing tag@themultiverse.school

Are you an executive?

I need your input on when you could meet. A lot of you aren’t looking for a full-time program but you want to be able to run your own AI-based workforce. I’m moving some of this content to the evenings to accommodate those of you with jobs or startups.

Important Links

Data and agents

Machine Learning

This week we're still working on data cleaning and gathering. If you haven’t gathered a dataset yet, we’ll go over Web Scraping in a little bit more detail.

Artificial Intelligence and Agents

Last week we didn’t create a RAG bot, but we can this week. I’ve also automated a number of critical business processes, which I’ll show off. We’ll also touch on how to keep secrets, so stay tuned.

Complex Adaptive Systems and Game Theory

This week we’re filming the 3rd episode. Come having read Chapter 3 (Modeling), skim Chapter 4 (Emergence), and read over Chapter 3 (Uncertainty) of the Stanford Plato Game Theory course.

On the calendar

Learn to Code is Evolving

Learn to Code will be evolving from “Learn to Code” to a second session of AI & Agents, and will be focused on the executive audience, and will largely be focused on automating work.

Storytelling

I’ve encouraged a number of you to attend Storytelling, at 6pm Pacific, with Francina. She’s got a great deal of experience with narrative storytelling, and a number of you are working on generative storytelling, so it’s probably your best bet to get some time with Francina.

CyberSecurity - Let The War Games Begin

We're currently running an ai-enhanced wargame. See Liz to join a team- which side do you want, Blue Team (defenders) or Red Team (hackers)? This game will run all year and we'll productize, publish, or perish? at the end (and throughout). Probably only two of the three. Probably. This last Monday we got Scourge (our name for our red-teaming AI) up and running, and hallucinating output from the command-line. Once we get real output up and running, maybe… we should also be up and running… away?

In any case, we’ve got a special guest, Ari Lerner, who’s going to swing by and bear witness to the horrors we’re creating and potentially help us make it even more dangerous.

From this issue

Essay

Web Scraping curriculum

Data gathering notes from Machine Learning.

Operational Automation for Community Organizers

Tag is back teaching Operational Automation for Community Organizers again this week! There's about a trillion things you can do with no-code editors, so join us for more automations to make your life easier.

Dev and research roles

Junior Devs

This week we’re finishing up our game, creating a very simple front-end using the Model, View, Controller pattern. Be prepared to code a bit later than the normal cut-off time, and to use ChatGPT to produce some code.

Senior Devs

Last week we talked a little about Product Validation. This week, let’s discuss Delegation and Automation.

Research Teams

Almost done with the research page! This weekend I finished the template for it, so I’ll be sending out a form.

Cool Videos: Other?

AI Tutorials and News

Deepfakes and Deepfake Attacks are escalating

[butterfly.jpg] Is This AGI?

Business Models and Monetization

CyberSecurity

See you in the future~

Liz Howard

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