1/5/25 Multiverse Report
🏴☠️ 1/5/2025 Multiverse Report 🏴☠️
Welcome back to Earth, season 12,025! It's time to get serious about everything. It's a new year, and I know you have a lot of resolutions and ideas and dreams and thoughts. We spent December dreaming about a new world and looking at the possibility space. Now, let's get real with ourselves and get to work. Roll up your sleeves. We're making progress every day.
We have a new chat server. It'll be in your student dashboard and you should have received an email with a token to sign up. Gather Town will be switching over to a new space as soon as I get it migrated with the help of Gathertown support.
If you're joining us for Standup (all membership levels), on Monday, we'll kick things off with the Solarpunk Singularity Standup at 8:00am Pacific. We're going to literally spend time building the new world by prioritizing our efforts and committing to each other what we're going to get done. Accountability is key, and this is how you can show the Multiverse Crew you are absolutely serious about changing the world. Be there, or be taken less seriously. Seriously.
Job Search Standup is back, because we're still in the old world and they won't give you food or housing without cash here in the "land of the free". We're splitting into two groups so we can stay focused- BrandUp Standup and Job Search Standup. If you need career counseling or you are ready to apply you'll go to Job Search Standup. If you're working on your resume, your website, your socials, etc- go to the BrandUp Standup. You should switch each week so that you can iterate on both and not exhaust yourself. Start with the one you need more so you get 2 of that session in a month instead of just one.
We've got Swarm Architecture using Autogen on Monday, so if you want to learn to build Artificial Superintelligence, we've got that on deck. In this class, we'll create a swarm of agents who will read the news for you and let you know if anything important is happening, but will otherwise file things into weekly or monthly briefings on different topics. You need to have taken Prompt Engineering or you'll struggle to keep up.
Next week we're launching No-Code AI and Low-Code AI, two gentle entrypoints into AI, and we'll announce the next Prompt Engineering cohort.
This Week's Classes
Monday, January 06
8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
11:00 AM Prompt Engineering with Liz Howard
Final Project
Integration and application of learned skills.
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02:00 PM Swarm Architecture with Liz Howard
Intro to Autogen with OpenAI
Introduction to using OpenAI Assistants and tools within an Autogen Swarm, including automation with a UserProxy. We'll begin by building a swarm of agents that reads the news for you, and alerts you if there's anything super important, otherwise it files things into a series of briefings.
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Tuesday, January 07
8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
05:00 PM Prompt Engineering with Liz Howard
Augmented Skills
Writing code with a large language model.
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Wednesday, January 08
8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
11:00 AM Prompt Engineering with Liz Howard
Final Project LAB
None
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02:00 PM Swarm Architecture with Liz Howard
Intro to Autogen with Open Source Models
Exploring the use of Open Source LLMs to create Agents and tools in Autogen.
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Thursday, January 09
8:00AM Pacific Solarpunk Singularity Standup with Chris and Liz
We'll be working on building the new world, setting priorities, and declaring intentions first before we get going on the job hunt. We'll also talk about the news, and process our feelings about the various nonsense we have to deal with.
9:00AM Pacific Job Search Standup with Chris and Liz
You'll join either Job Search Standup (with Liz) or the BrandUp Standup (with Chris). We'll spend an hour a day working on finding a job and nothing else.
05:00 PM Prompt Engineering with Liz Howard
Augmented Skills
Writing code with a large language model.
Sign Up
Upcoming Tracks and Classes
Prompt Engineering - Summer Cohort
Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up
- Swarm Architecture starts Monday, January 06 02:00 PM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.
Prompt Engineering - Fall (M & W 11AM Pacific)
Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up
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Intro to Agents starts Monday, January 13 11:00 AM Create Agentic Autonomous Applications
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Agent Engineering - OpenAI Toolchain starts Monday, February 24 11:00 AM Master OpenAI Assistants: Creation, Management & Advanced Integration.
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Agent Engineering - Open Source Toolchain starts Monday, March 03 11:00 AM Master Open Source Tools and Agents with Python or JavaScript.
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Advanced Agent and Tool Engineering starts Monday, March 10 11:00 AM Mastering Intelligent Language Models
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Swarm Architecture starts Monday, April 14 11:00 AM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.
Prompt Engineering - Fall (T & TH 5PM Pacific)
Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up
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Agent Engineering - OpenAI Toolchain starts Tuesday, March 11 05:00 PM Master OpenAI Assistants: Creation, Management & Advanced Integration.
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Agent Engineering - Open Source Toolchain starts Tuesday, March 25 05:00 PM Master Open Source Tools and Agents with Python or JavaScript.
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Intro to Agents starts Tuesday, April 01 05:00 PM Create Agentic Autonomous Applications
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Advanced Agent and Tool Engineering starts Tuesday, May 06 05:00 PM Mastering Intelligent Language Models
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Swarm Architecture starts Tuesday, June 24 05:00 PM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.
Important Links
- Substack
- Twitch
- GitHub
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Sign Up Here
- The In-Person Calendar
- The Multiverse Crew On Socials
- Test our researchers by participating in a CTF
Cool Videos
I released a lot of videos on youtube
- The model of hierarchical complexity
- Voice Clone Defense
- Threat Modeling PRISM
- AI is a Tool
- Make Good Project Estimates
- How to build an Agent
- AI vs Human - Who's more energy efficient
- Quantum and AI
- Let's Read a Paper: Thinking Fast and Laterally
- And literally 35 shorts
AI Tutorials and News
- The Top Papers of 2024
- Michael Levin on Biologically Inspired AI
- Signal Processing and Noise Cancellation for Attention Mechanisms I want that for me
- Wes roth on that Apollo Research paper
- Ilya on Superintelligence
- Bloom's 2 sigma problem is solved and I don't think we understand the impact of that yet
- This is how the robots work
- China is beating us on Robots
- Brett's Tutorial on Semantic Kernel Function Calling
- Anthropic is taking alignment faking seriously
- Robots Robots Robots
- Satya Nadella thinks Agents will replace SaaS... but that's still just SaaS?
- o3 breaks all the records why are they using odd numbers are these unstable versions
- Deepseek's Deepthink is hot on it's heels
- OpenAI is for some reason the arbiter of AGI
- LLMs can Introspect
- Some Trends That Are Predicted
- This Alignment Problem is Happening Now
Physics and Astronomy
- Is time a psuedodimension
- Is dark energy not real? A lot of people are talking about this paper
- How SuperVoids Form
Psychology
- Critical Thinking is a skill we should develop
- Don't Rescue People
- This is what it looks like to be really secure
- We're All Fine
- You're a hive mind
- This is how to get everything you really want
- High Nonsense is Crucial
- Ah f&%k youtube algorithm get out of my subconscious but maybe the algorithm can fix this
- Why are Conservatives freaking out about Babies
- This is Astrology For Men
- We have entered the Era of Digital Biology
- How You Choose What To Remember
Cyberpunk Dystopia
- This is what the drones are
- The universe is haunted
- There are literally secret police microphones everywhere
- Ah, the Edge of Chaos
- The Legal Eagle is Suing Honey
- The Alt Right Pipeline in the South is Scarily Short
- This just in: Fake Youtube Channels Don't Make Money
Culture
- I'm not a robot
- Jurassic Park
- I find these videos so unsettling and my favorite thing is to watch them at night
- Give me the loops
- The Situation is Insane
- Chris Fleming Knows Whats Up
- literally every vocal stim thats hot right now, now you can speak to and understand your neurodivergent nephew yw
- It's 2025, will this be the year of Nero in New Rome? Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of War
- Come Away o Human Child, To The Waters and The Wild, With a Faery Hand in Hand, For The World's More Full of Weeping, Than You Can Understand
See you in the future~
Liz Howard