Moved into Boston

[Alec Segal]

Is there going to be a meeting on August 15 and how to get there/register?

Regards,
Alec Segal

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 6:31 AM Faré <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> 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>:
>>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>> 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> 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
>>>> >> 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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