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The Multiverse ZineNo. 35July 14, 2024

New server humming, a hackathon instead

Roan Builds the Taiga

A values clarification, a hackathon in place of demo day, a new project-management server, and Gene's first job.

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A need came up to clarify a value that interacts with the Code of Conduct, so Liz wrote it up in the Mutual Aid Structures page. No Code of Conduct changes were made.

Not enough people signed up to demo, so Multiverse West got an unconference on values and a hackathon instead: a gathering and pitches on Friday, then hacking on Saturday. Roan set up an instance of Taiga, an open source project management app, so projects could be managed internally and queried by an AI. Gene got a job and made Commit Mints at Liz's house.

Liz noted that Gene and Roan did very well at the local events they attended. All the families in Rafah had stopped updating.

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7/14/2024 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter

Hey Multiverse Crew,

We have been faced with a need to Clarify a Value which interacts with The Code Of Conduct, so we have done so. No code of conduct updates at this time.

Not enough people signed up to demo, so we won't do a demo day. Instead, we'll do an unconference on our values, and a hackathon which is what I wanted to do anyway. We'll have a gathering on Friday and some pitches, then Hack together on Saturday.

Roan set up an instance of Taiga (an open source project management web application) for us, now we can manage projects internally (and we can directly interface with the data using an AI). We'll set everyone up with an account. It was a saga, as it's a complex distributed web application. Gene got a job and may immediately get poached by another company, and made Commit Mints at my house.

In the experience I have had going to several events locally, Multiverse Students are exceptionally well positioned to get jobs at the hottest startups. Gene and Roan absolutely tore up the competition everywhere they went.

All of the families in Rafah have stopped updating. I don't know what this means, but will keep you posted, I'm checking weekly.

From this issue

Prompt Engineering starts July 15th (tomorrow!)

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. If you feel like your python skills "aren't good enough" you are fully encouraged to ask questions.

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 Highly Competent Novel Scale Senior Developer with Robotics and CyberSecurity looking for new opportunities changing what is possible with technology.
  2. Liss McCabe Senior developer, looking for full-stack work in Ruby, Python, React, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering
  3. Cameron Sweeney Looking for Back-End (Python, Math and Stats), Data, Gen AI, Prompt Engineering
  4. 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.
  5. Kellyn von Arx Looking for UX, UI, and Product design, Gen AI. Has some Python & Git experience, some Prompt Engineering experience
  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. Gene Hwang GOT A JOB 🎆 EVERYONE WAS ROOTING FOR YOU BROOO

This Week's Classes · Job Search Standup

Is back on, see you at 9, get a job hippie

IT IS MULTIVERSE WEST

People will be here. The plan is to hang out at my place.

I will be running classes Monday and Wednesday during the day but otherwise I am down to host (it is hard to teach when other folks are here, I have found). If you plan to take meetings, hang at your place until you are done or you will find your call quite disrupted.

Monday, July 15

10:00 AM : Sprint Kickoff

Research Team, let's discuss your projects with the group. Liz will be there.

02:00 PM Complex Prompts and Benchmarks

Developing complex prompts and benchmarks for AI artifacts. Sign Up

Tuesday, July 16

10:00 AM : Scrum

Research Team, let's set goals.

11:00 AM - Hacking with The Team

In town and not working? Come hack with the team. Let's work on an open-source swarm-based self-evolving curriculum AGI.

Wednesday, July 17

10:00 AM : Scrum

Research Team, let's make plans, allocate time blocks

11:00 AM - Cybersecurity

Hacking the planet, as usual, Research Team only

02:00 PM Jailbreaks

Jailbreaking a large language model out of its alignment guidance. Sign Up

7:00 PM : Multiverse West Kickoff Dinner

RSVP Here Due to the staggering number of dietary problems this will be a Community Kitchen event. You can Contribute Ahead Of Time and we can pick up the food you want, if you can't afford to contribute, that is totally ok.

You must help cook or bring something that is prepared, That's What Non-Hierarchy Is. Yes, Even If You Contribute A Lot. That Is The Point.

Do not bring gluten or corn.

Thursday, July 18

10:00 AM : Scrum

Research Team, let's commit to plans we made this week

11 AM : We're Going To The Future

COME OVER WHERE ARE YOU JEEZ

12:00 PM : The Floor is for Feelings

Come lay around on my floor and talk about your feelings

3:00 Complex Adaptive Systems & Game Theory

Please participate!

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

6:00 PM: Business Dinner

RSVP Here Let's pitch our business ideas around AGI to each other, do commitments, and potentially get teams together. Consider what you could put together in less than 12 hours? Prepare to hang out for potentially A Long Time.

Due to the staggering number of dietary problems this will be a Community Kitchen event. You can Contribute Ahead Of Time and we can pick up the food you want, if you can't afford to contribute, that is totally ok.

You must help cook or bring something that is prepared, That's What Non-Hierarchy Is. Yes, Even If You Contribute A Lot. That Is The Point.

Do not bring gluten or corn.

Friday, July 19

11 AM: Walk to Dolores Park

12PM - 3:00 PM - Hang Out In Dolores and Discuss Our Values

Also replenish that sweet sweet vitamin D

5:00 PM - Begin Your Projects

if you haven't already

7:00 - Dinner

RSVP Here

Due to the staggering number of dietary problems this will be a Community Kitchen event. You can Contribute Ahead Of Time and we can pick up the food you want, if you can't afford to contribute, that is totally ok.

You must help cook or bring something that is prepared, That's What Non-Hierarchy Is. Yes, Even If You Contribute A Lot. That Is The Point.

Do not bring gluten or corn.

Saturday, July 20

Continue to hack. Maybe you never stopped? What's happening? Is Time Real? Did You Eat? Someone Help Me Make Breakfast.

Wake Up, It's Alive!

??? maybe 6:00 PM

Stop. Eat. Sleep. This is not the deadline. You just need to stop and eat and maybe have a nap if you haven't.

??? Sunday ???

Uhh, things will have evolved such to this point that the we're reached The Boundary of Computation. but some people are leaving so let's try to have brunch around 11:00 am - we'll all be in a Signal Group by then.

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

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

Upcoming Tracks and Classes

Prompt Engineering - Spring Cohort

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

Prompt Engineering - Summer Cohort

Prompt Engineering starts Monday, July 15 02:00 PM

Prompt Engineering - Fall Cohort(s)

Ok. So, we'll do 3 different sessions this Fall, starting September, October, and November. - In October we'll do a Pacific Timezone cohort In

Upcoming Tracks and Classes

Prompt Engineering

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

Prompt Engineering - Summer Cohort

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.

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