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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