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The Multiverse ZineNo. 43September 22, 2024

Back from the truck. Classes got longer.

Back From the Truck

Liz returned from a secret trip, the Consciousness podcast published its first episode, and class lengths doubled with added lab days.

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This issue is dressed as Skate Punk

Liz came back from a series of trips documented on TikTok. The school published the first episode of the Consciousness podcast, featuring real experts.

Many classes were doubled in length by adding a lab day between workshop sessions, after senior developers said the pace was overwhelming. The first session each week covers new demo and lecture content, and the second is a working session.

One-on-ones became a benefit of research team or membership, and a weekly Work On Your Website session started on Mondays at 1PM for all students.

The end of 1:1s?

I'm teaching 3 classes, and I just realistically don't have a lot of time for them anymore, so they're a bit scarce.

1:1s are now a research team or membership benefit.

For the research team, apply by emailing me. I'll get to you as space opens up.

Hello! I'm back from The Secret Truck Thing. Also I heard GPT-o1 came out while I was out. We published the first episode of the Consciousness podcast featuring real experts and not just me. We're doing some research and I am as always, getting back on my feet after about an HBO season worth of highly concentrated main character plot events happened. If you're waiting on an email from me... just wait longer sorry 🏊🏊🏊 I'm otw

Also I am out Oct 1-3, which is why some dates are switched around.

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I/O Psychologists and Psychometricians

Are you an I/O Psychologist or a Psychometrician? I would love to chat about the research project I have been hinting about. I sent you an email and a calendar invite.

Are you just interested in the concept of this research, AGI, Psychometrics and are absolutely positive your unique field and set of interests will allow you to meaningfully contribute, but are not an I/O Psychologist or psychometrician?

You want to attend prompt engineering! You'll learn all about the process of building effective benchmarks there. We'll be discussing the research, and you'll learn quite a bit more in that class. You can help by attending this class and attempting to make your own benchmarks, this is literally the research. We'll discuss the forms of validity in that class, and you are able to contribute to the research by constructing your own benchmarks and having them reviewed. This will help us.

Demo Days

We're going to have cross-research-team demos weekly on Thursdays at 2pm, for the research team only.

Work On Your Website

Do you have a website? Even if you do, I bet it needs to be updated. We're going to do a Work On Your Website session once a week. Mondays, 1PM. All multiverse students welcome.

A Note on The Calendar and Class Lengths

I've doubled the length of many classes, by adding a lab day in between each workshop session. I've found that most senior developers are quite overwhelmed by the pace. This will push some class starts back a few weeks, to account for the extended time to get stuff done and give us some "working together" time. The first session of the week will always be the latest demo & lecture content, and the second session will be a working session. Don't plan to miss these and make them up- everyone needs them, even if you're very smart. It took a bunch of very autodidactic learners confessing to me that they struggled to keep up.

The calendar may be slightly wonky, because I haven't finished shifting later classes in the sequence around. Just had to take a break this weekend and go to some dance parties instead.

The good news is I can't get fired for doing stuff like prioritizing the learner experience. Take THAT traditional academia.

The good news is I can't get fired for doing stuff like prioritizing the learner experience.

Liz

This Week's Schedule

Monday, September 23

1:00 PM Work on your website

All multiverse students: let's work on our websites. Update em, add stuff, tweak them- just don't start over.

02:00 PM Intro to Agents

Agent Prompt Engineering
Explore effective system prompts, create personas, and tackle complex problem-solving prompts. Sign Up

05:00 PM Swarm Architecture

Intro to Autogen with OpenAI
Introduction to using OpenAI Assistants and tools within an Autogen Swarm, including automation with a UserProxy. Sign Up

Tuesday, September 24

10:00 AM: Valid AI Evaluations

Psychometrics Team Only

11:00 AM: Senior Devs - Research

Live research, solving problems with AI, trying the new stuff, hard to follow for newbies

Wednesday, September 25

11:00 AM THE ROOF IS FOR FEELINGS

The broken, exhausted return of THE ROOF IS FOR FEELINGS. Come name your feelings, talk about what's going on with em.

Open to all multiverse students enrolled in any class.

02:00 PM Intro to Agents

Retrieval Augmented Agents
Learn to write recursive summarizers, retrieve knowledge, and reflect on agent actions. Sign Up

05:00 PM Swarm Architecture

Intro to Autogen with Langchain
Exploring the use of Open Source Function Calling Agents and tools in Autogen. Sign Up

Thursday, September 26

11:00 AM Consciousness Podcast Filming

Consciousness podcast crew only

2:00 PM Research Team Weekly Meetup

Showing off to each other and pumping each other up about how cool we are, let's get it crew Research Team Only

Upcoming Tracks and Classes

Prompt Engineering - Spring Cohort

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

  • Swarm Architecture starts Monday, September 23 05:00 PM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.

  • AI Alignment starts Monday, October 28 05:00 PM Navigating the Future of AI Responsibly

Prompt Engineering - Summer Cohort

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

Prompt Engineering - Fall (M & W 11AM Pacific)

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

Prompt Engineering - Fall (T & TH 5PM Pacific)

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

Important Links

  1. Sign Up Here
  2. The Hot New Website
  3. The Multiverse Crew On Socials
  4. The In-Person Calendar

Cool Stuff

Uhh The Multiverse actually shipped a lot this last bit, but I didn't watch a lot of content. Nonetheless, here's a content drop:

Wanna know what the on-site fellowship is like?
Here's a bunch of behind-the-scenes footage, by Roan

Yeah this is literally all Multiverse stuff. Let's just take the scene over, k babe?

9/22/2024 Multiverse School Weekly Newsletter

See you in the future~ Liz

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