Moved into Boston
Masataro Asai
guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 05:33:29 UTC 2019
What kind of information is needed?
BTW, my company also seems to let me use a floor in our building.
Perhaps from the next time, if it is recurring.
Masataro
Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> All I need is a list of people, I'll have to register them manually.
> Also could we update https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/
>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 6:31 AM Faré <fahree at gmail.com
> <mailto:fahree at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Jon Godbout is offering us a space at Google for the meeting. I
> believe this means advance registration required. Unless someone
> strongly objects, I believe this is the right choice within the time
> frame. Otherwise I can get a room at MIT.
>
> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
> http://fare.tunes.org
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 20:34 Guicho 271828 <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I see, maybe it is safer to avoid that title in the US.
> Please make the title just as "Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in
> Deep Latent Space".
>
>
> 2019年8月1日(木) 16:19 Jeff Read <bitwize at gmail.com
> <mailto:bitwize at gmail.com>>:
>
>
> Color me intrigued -- it certainly does seem interesting,
> and potentially unifies symbol and logic based GOFAI with
> the "throw more statistics at the problem" school that
> currently encompasses "AI" as a buzzword. If we're still on
> for August 15 I would love to attend as I think I would
> learn much.
>
> Bikeshed issue: You may wish to consider revising the title
> of your talk. "Make X great again" is considered
> "normalizing hate speech" and very offensive, therefore
> unacceptable by 2019 professional standards. Major
> open-source conferences will reject a talk proposal with
> such a title, and some may preëmptively ban you from the con
> entirely for proposing it. Source:
> https://mobile.twitter.com/aurynn/status/1128053124323655680
>
> It may not be an issue among us (Faré may even like it, and
> relish a twist of the old knife), but among less laid-back
> groups and conferences it can be severely career-limiting.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 7:33 AM Masataro Asai
> <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com <mailto:guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the invitation :)
>
> August 15th should work, but I need to confirm the
> schedule in the
> company, which I cannot check now until I complete the
> onboarding
> process of US IBM (although I have been in IBM Japan for
> quite a while...)
>
> Will they be posted on any sort of MIT bulletin board?
> Is it more of an
> academic event? That might need a permission from the
> manager. For an
> informal meeting it should be fine.
>
> Blurb meaning the short description / abstract of the
> talk? Let me give
> a try...
>
> For myself:
>
> Masataro Asai, aka guicho271828, is a Lisp hacker with
> 11 years of
> experience in Common Lisp, who received a Ph.D in
> Artificial
> Intelligence from the University of Tokyo. He is an
> expert in heuristic
> graph search and automated planning and scheduling, also
> known as AI
> Planning, with publications records on top AI
> conferences e.g. AAAI,
> IJCAI, ICAPS. Author of a fast pattern match library
> Trivia, a numerical
> computation library NUMCL (which got 400 stars) and more.
>
> For the talk:
>
> Title: Make Symbols Great Again!: Classical PDDL/STRIPS
> Planning in Deep
> Latent Space
>
> Domain-independent classical planners require the
> symbolic models of the
> problem domain and instance as input, resulting in a
> knowledge
> acquisition bottleneck. Meanwhile, although deep
> learning has achieved
> significant success in many fields, the knowledge is
> encoded in a
> subsymbolic representation which is incompatible with
> symbolic systems
> such as planners. We introduce LatPlan, an unsupervised
> architecture
> combining deep learning and classical planning. Given
> only an unlabeled
> set of image pairs showing a subset of transitions
> allowed in the
> environment (training inputs), and a pair of images
> representing the
> initial and the goal states (planning inputs), LatPlan
> finds a plan to
> the goal state in a symbolic latent space and returns a
> visualized plan
> execution.
>
> In the talk, we also survey the recent progress in the
> related fields
> and also informally talk about my future ambitions.
>
> Regards
> Masataro
>
>
> Faré wrote:
> > Congratulations!
> >
> > Let's summon a Boston Lisp Meeting to greet you.
> > How about Thursday August 15th at 1800?
> >
> > I'll try to reserve a room at MIT. Either way, we can
> meet for dinner
> > afterwards.
> >
> > Can you give a speech on some topic of your choice?
> Otherwise is there
> > any other candidate?
> > Can you give me a one-paragraph blurb about yourself,
> another one
> > about your topic?
> >
> > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau
> •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
> > Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine
> percent perspiration.
> > — Thomas Alva Edison
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:27 AM Masataro Asai
> <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I just moved to Boston yesterday. 5yr assignment.
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> --
> >> Masataro Asai Ph.D
> >>
> >> Research Staff Member
> >> IBM Research
> >>
> >> Tel: +81-44-856-9009
> >> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
> >> Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
> >> Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
> >>
>
> --
> Masataro Asai Ph.D
>
> Research Staff Member
> IBM Research
>
> Tel: +81-44-856-9009
> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
> Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
> Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
>
--
Masataro Asai Ph.D
Research Staff Member
IBM Research
Tel: +81-44-856-9009
Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
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