AI and Agents - Conferences and Organisations

Multi-Agent Organizations and Conferences

IFAAMAS = International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)

AAMAS 2025 Detroit = International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Multi Agent Frameworks (LLM)

atomic-agents (OSS, simple, based on instructor

- instructor and schema names = Bad Schemas could break your LLM Structured Outputs - Instructor

magnetic-one (Microsoft)

TinyTroupe  (Microsoft)

TinyTroupe is an experimental Python library designed to simulate individuals, referred to as TinyPersons, with distinct personalities, interests, and goals.

amazon - https://github.com/awslabs/multi-agent-orchestrator

    - https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agents/

pydantic fw - https://ai.pydantic.dev/

(related) Gemini - has Plans and Approvals? = https://developers.googleblog.com/en/the-next-chapter-of-the-gemini-era-for-developers/

Scaling Functionality (large number of FCs) = github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/discussions/9947
- use a Vector store
- semantic search to find the related function calls, so only send the related ones to the LLM

Semantic Kernel - Agents = https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/?pivots=programming-language-csharp#what-is-an-ai-agent

AI Engineering[Book] [recommended by Zeki]

Anthropic - Building Effective Agents = https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents

Agent paper by Google = 1735887787265

LLMs: Lessons Learned and Evaluation

 Applied LLMs: What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
https://applied-llms.org/ 

Lessons Learned Building Products Powered by Generative AI

https://tech.buzzfeed.com/lessons-learned-building-products-powered-by-generative-ai-7f6c23bff376

EvalGen - Who validates the validators - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12272

Your AI Product Needs Evals

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/

Asian classic texts

Journey to the West

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West

AI - Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

AI - Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

# Robotics

- Majko Physics Engine - https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco

- book: Sutton & Barto - "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction"

- free eBook

- Robot Operating System (ROS) = https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/www.ros.org

War-time and Spy Books

Exile's Return

cowley - killing thatcher (doug)

Seventeen Moments of Spring (soviet spy)

(done) operation mince meat

Food and Cooking - recipes

from Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain

Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. 

Nicolas Freeling's The Kitchen, 

David Blum's Flash in the Pan, 

the Batterberrys' fine account of American restaurant history, On the Town in New York, 

Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel.

Read the old masters: Escoffier, Bocuse et al.

as well as the Young Turks: Keller, Marco-Pierre White

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Jamie Oliver recipes

Caponata - aubergine stew

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/incredible-sicilian-aubergine-stew-caponata/