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The Multiverse ZineNo. 17March 10, 2024

Ship it, then ride out on break

Shipped, Then Spring Break

The Agent Chatroom went to production, the second podcast episode went live, a student appeared on David Shapiro's podcast, and the school paused for a break.

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This issue is dressed as Space Western

A ship-it push before the school's first monthly break (March 15 to 24). The junior devs deployed the Agent Chatroom to production, and senior devs moved on to database deployment and scaling.

Cam from the school was a guest on David Shapiro's podcast. The second episode of the Complex Adaptive Systems and Game Theory podcast also went live.

In the wargame, the red-team AI failed to compromise the XSS goat target, which Liz counted as good news for humanity. The Executives Program invites went out, and Storytelling became NarrativeCraft, tied to Francina Simone's new Midnight Scholar Society.

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3/10/24 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter

Hey Multiverse Crew,

Blessed Ostara and Rammadan Mubarak, and in two weeks it's Holi and Purim. It's the first day of Spring, and the Spring Equinox! Today you should begin to see the buds of promise from the seeds you have planted at the start of the year. This week we're doing more of a ship-it push before we go on break the week after. As a reminder, The Multiverse School will be closed from March 15-24th to begin our new monthly break schedule.

Our Very Own Cam was on David Shapiro's Podcast! They're our Cam and you can't have them, but you can borrow them for a short time.

Call your reps about The Tiktok Ban, because it's dumb and I also need TikTok to keep my small business going.

Also, you can now log in to The Multiverse School.. Also we have again updated the Programs page.

Job Search Standup

We're back this week! Don't forget to sign up. We'll be out next week for the break.

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

Program Updates

There is an actual Portal now that students can log into and register interest in classes. Check it out, let me know if you encounter any issues.

I have never been involved in a project that I hope fails before. This is weird.

Liz Howard

Learn to Code Bootcamp This Summer

Here's the Learn to Code bootcamp. This will be a more structured, code-together program, so if you're looking for that, great. If you're still an unschooled chaos monster who has a hard time with due dates, joining at our $500/month option is still available. Talk to tag@themultiverse.school to see.

Executives Program

Invites are out! It's invite-only, but let me know if you want in and didn't get an invite at liz@themultiverse.school and I'll consider it, send me your linkedin if that's what you're looking for.

This week in class

Artificial Intelligence and Agents

Node.js OpenAI Tool Use Patterns & some ways to structure your prompts so as to get JSON.

Complex Adaptive Systems and Game Theory

The First Episode is Live The Second Episode is Live! It's a lot of me talking this time, it's sort of the pre-reading and introduction to the next set of readings.

We aren't filming this week because we filmed last week. Readings for next week: Chapter 5 of Plato: Team Reasoning and Conditional Games Part 2 of Finite and Infinite Games (No One Can Play Alone), pages 42-72 in the pdf

Storytelling is becoming NarrativeCraft

Storytelling is morphing into a new kind of thing. Many of you are working on your own personal narrative, and creating algorithms for both Gen AI and your own mind that will cue you to live in the story that you write, instead of the story others are writing for you. The goal of this next series (beginning March 27th, and now on Wednesdays) will be to craft, then step into your own Heroic Epic. This is in tandem with The Midnight Scholar Society, a new school Francina has begun! The Multiverse School incubates schools, and Francina's program is a school that's budding off of The Multiverse. Multiverse Travelers get access to The Midnight Scholar Society for free for this reason, but not for forever, so sign up now and be part of the inaugural scene.

CyberSecurity

Last week, The Thing That Shall Not Be Named was unable to successfully compromise the XSS goat, which is great news for humanity. Let's try to remedy this through jailbreaking of prompts.

I have never been involved in a project that I hope fails before. This is weird.

From this issue

Dev tracks

Junior Devs

Last week we worked on the Agent Chatroom project. It's being chronicled on this page in order. We deployed it to production!

This week, you've been assigned a simple Agent we'll make in class together as a group.

Senior Devs

We'll work on the deploy of the Database, and scaling.

Research Teams

Currently I have the following projects on my radar. Please let me know if I have a project wrong.

  • FamilyTraditions: A cultural culinary archival project, group type, focusing on preserving Middle Eastern cultural culinary traditions. It uses OCR to digitize recipes and leverages ChatGPT for natural language processing to generate shopping lists and save details about recipes still in development, with a focus on portable, open storage mechanisms. Has an assigned Executive, Elena Vid

  • TreeOfAttacks - Network Compromise: A group project aimed at identifying and analyzing network vulnerabilities and attack vectors to develop defense and mitigation strategies. Has an assigned Executive, Liz Howard

  • TreeOfAttacks - Reverse Engineering: A group project focused on dissecting and understanding the inner workings of various software and systems to identify vulnerabilities and methods for enhancement. Has an assigned Executive, Ari Lerner

  • Automated DM: A personal project for developing an automated direct messaging system to streamline communication processes. Has an assigned Executive, Liz Howard

  • Life Gamification: A personal project applying game design principles to everyday life for motivation and productivity enhancement. Needs an Executive, Currently Liz

  • Community Automation: A group project by Matthew and Al focused on creating moderation and community management bots in a chatroom environment. Needs an Executive, Currently Liz

  • JASON: A group project developing a Job Search tool that builds a custom resume for each job application, based on a comprehensive resume.json that includes all your duties and works. Has an assigned Executive, Rahul Sethi

Important Links

  1. The Hot New Website
  2. Tell us if you got a job!
  3. Tell me when you can meet as an executive

AI Tutorials and News

What Children can teach us about Training AI again I said this in 2017

1-bit LLMs are faster??? so says Microsoft

Yes AI is Causing Layoffs and the Very Rich People Behind ChatGPT Aren't Worried For Some Reason

Again The Self Awareness Debate because Claude is using the definite article, I have already covered this

Other Tec. Stuff

[Don't Fall for 'Tar Pit' Startup Ideas.](https://youtu.be/GMIawSAygO4?si=7mh7X4JAQM5qb9p9

Psychology and Health

Other?

See you in the future~

Liz Howard

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