Moved into Boston

Jonathan Godbout jgodbou at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 13:54:12 UTC 2019


Yip, the site is updated on Gitlab, just working with common-lisp.net to be
able to send it to them and make the changes live.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 9:31 AM Guicho 271828 <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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