Moved into Boston
Guicho 271828
guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 13:31:15 UTC 2019
Hi all,
I think we need to update the website ASAP & announce it or people will not
be able to sort out the schedule.
I don't know the dominant population in this group (does it also include
Clojure, scheme?) but
I am happy if more people come even from the non-CL lisp background.
Masataro
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:10 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>>>
>>
--
Masataro Asai, Ph.D
Research Staff Member
IBM Research
Tel: +81-44-856-9009
Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
Website(private): http://guicho271828.github.io/
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