Moved into Boston
Jonathan Godbout
jgodbou at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 02:10:11 UTC 2019
Fare, I'll make the change.
Alec, there will be, it will be at Google: 355 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142
Anyone who wants to go should email me directly, and we'll meet in the
Google lobby around 6:45 so we can start at 7, assuming 7 is good for
everyone?
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:20 AM Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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