Moved into Boston

Faré fahree at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 06:20:18 UTC 2019


I am waaaaay too busy with legal issues concerning my startup at the moment.

Will anyone on this mailing-list assume editorship, at least temporarily,
of the
boston-lisp.common-lisp.net page, to update it?

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
http://fare.tunes.org
C is a DSL for turning low-level byte arrays into security advisories.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 1:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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