<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I think we need to update the website ASAP & announce it or people will not be able to sort out the schedule.</div><div>I don't know the dominant population in this group (does it also include Clojure, scheme?) but</div><div>I am happy if more people come even from the non-CL lisp background.</div><div><br></div><div>Masataro</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:10 PM Jonathan Godbout <<a href="mailto:jgodbou@gmail.com">jgodbou@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Fare, I'll make the change.<div>Alec, there will be, it will be at Google: <span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">355 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142</span></div><div><font face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif">Anyone who wants to go should email me directly, and we'll meet in the </font></div><div><font face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif">Google lobby around 6:45 so we can start at 7, assuming 7 is good for everyone?</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-adm" style="margin:5px 0px"><div id="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-q_282" class="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-ajR gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-h4" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:11px;border-top-left-radius:5.5px;border-top-right-radius:5.5px;border-bottom-right-radius:5.5px;border-bottom-left-radius:5.5px"><br class="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div id="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-q_282" class="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-ajR gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-h4" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:11px;border-top-left-radius:5.5px;border-top-right-radius:5.5px;border-bottom-right-radius:5.5px;border-bottom-left-radius:5.5px"><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:20 AM Faré <<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahree@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I am waaaaay too busy with legal issues concerning my startup at the moment.<div><br></div><div>Will anyone on this mailing-list assume editorship, at least temporarily, of the</div><div><a href="http://boston-lisp.common-lisp.net" target="_blank">boston-lisp.common-lisp.net</a> page, to update it?</div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_8928361322682410731gmail-m_-2790416536460453955gmail_signature">—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• <a href="http://fare.tunes.org" target="_blank">http://fare.tunes.org</a><br></div></div>C is a DSL for turning low-level byte arrays into security advisories.<br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 1:33 AM Masataro Asai <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What kind of information is needed?<br>
BTW, my company also seems to let me use a floor in our building. <br>
Perhaps from the next time, if it is recurring.<br>
<br>
Masataro<br>
<br>
Jonathan Godbout wrote:<br>
> All I need is a list of people, I'll have to register them manually.<br>
> Also could we update <a href="https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/</a><br>
> <br>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 6:31 AM Faré <<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahree@gmail.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahree@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Jon Godbout is offering us a space at Google for the meeting. I<br>
> believe this means advance registration required. Unless someone<br>
> strongly objects, I believe this is the right choice within the time<br>
> frame. Otherwise I can get a room at MIT.<br>
> <br>
> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•<br>
> <a href="http://fare.tunes.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fare.tunes.org</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 20:34 Guicho 271828 <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I see, maybe it is safer to avoid that title in the US.<br>
> Please make the title just as "Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in<br>
> Deep Latent Space".<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> 2019年8月1日(木) 16:19 Jeff Read <<a href="mailto:bitwize@gmail.com" target="_blank">bitwize@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bitwize@gmail.com" target="_blank">bitwize@gmail.com</a>>>:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Color me intrigued -- it certainly does seem interesting,<br>
> and potentially unifies symbol and logic based GOFAI with<br>
> the "throw more statistics at the problem" school that<br>
> currently encompasses "AI" as a buzzword. If we're still on<br>
> for August 15 I would love to attend as I think I would<br>
> learn much.<br>
> <br>
> Bikeshed issue: You may wish to consider revising the title<br>
> of your talk. "Make X great again" is considered<br>
> "normalizing hate speech" and very offensive, therefore<br>
> unacceptable by 2019 professional standards. Major<br>
> open-source conferences will reject a talk proposal with<br>
> such a title, and some may preëmptively ban you from the con<br>
> entirely for proposing it. Source:<br>
> <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/aurynn/status/1128053124323655680" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mobile.twitter.com/aurynn/status/1128053124323655680</a><br>
> <br>
> It may not be an issue among us (Faré may even like it, and<br>
> relish a twist of the old knife), but among less laid-back<br>
> groups and conferences it can be severely career-limiting.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 7:33 AM Masataro Asai<br>
> <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Thank you for the invitation :)<br>
> <br>
> August 15th should work, but I need to confirm the<br>
> schedule in the<br>
> company, which I cannot check now until I complete the<br>
> onboarding<br>
> process of US IBM (although I have been in IBM Japan for<br>
> quite a while...)<br>
> <br>
> Will they be posted on any sort of MIT bulletin board?<br>
> Is it more of an<br>
> academic event? That might need a permission from the<br>
> manager. For an<br>
> informal meeting it should be fine.<br>
> <br>
> Blurb meaning the short description / abstract of the<br>
> talk? Let me give<br>
> a try...<br>
> <br>
> For myself:<br>
> <br>
> Masataro Asai, aka guicho271828, is a Lisp hacker with<br>
> 11 years of<br>
> experience in Common Lisp, who received a Ph.D in<br>
> Artificial<br>
> Intelligence from the University of Tokyo. He is an<br>
> expert in heuristic<br>
> graph search and automated planning and scheduling, also<br>
> known as AI<br>
> Planning, with publications records on top AI<br>
> conferences e.g. AAAI,<br>
> IJCAI, ICAPS. Author of a fast pattern match library<br>
> Trivia, a numerical<br>
> computation library NUMCL (which got 400 stars) and more.<br>
> <br>
> For the talk:<br>
> <br>
> Title: Make Symbols Great Again!: Classical PDDL/STRIPS<br>
> Planning in Deep<br>
> Latent Space<br>
> <br>
> Domain-independent classical planners require the<br>
> symbolic models of the<br>
> problem domain and instance as input, resulting in a<br>
> knowledge<br>
> acquisition bottleneck. Meanwhile, although deep<br>
> learning has achieved<br>
> significant success in many fields, the knowledge is<br>
> encoded in a<br>
> subsymbolic representation which is incompatible with<br>
> symbolic systems<br>
> such as planners. We introduce LatPlan, an unsupervised<br>
> architecture<br>
> combining deep learning and classical planning. Given<br>
> only an unlabeled<br>
> set of image pairs showing a subset of transitions<br>
> allowed in the<br>
> environment (training inputs), and a pair of images<br>
> representing the<br>
> initial and the goal states (planning inputs), LatPlan<br>
> finds a plan to<br>
> the goal state in a symbolic latent space and returns a<br>
> visualized plan<br>
> execution.<br>
> <br>
> In the talk, we also survey the recent progress in the<br>
> related fields<br>
> and also informally talk about my future ambitions.<br>
> <br>
> Regards<br>
> Masataro<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Faré wrote:<br>
> > Congratulations!<br>
> ><br>
> > Let's summon a Boston Lisp Meeting to greet you.<br>
> > How about Thursday August 15th at 1800?<br>
> ><br>
> > I'll try to reserve a room at MIT. Either way, we can<br>
> meet for dinner<br>
> > afterwards.<br>
> ><br>
> > Can you give a speech on some topic of your choice?<br>
> Otherwise is there<br>
> > any other candidate?<br>
> > Can you give me a one-paragraph blurb about yourself,<br>
> another one<br>
> > about your topic?<br>
> ><br>
> > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau<br>
> •Reflection&Cybernethics• <a href="http://fare.tunes.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fare.tunes.org</a><br>
> > Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine<br>
> percent perspiration.<br>
> > — Thomas Alva Edison<br>
> ><br>
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:27 AM Masataro Asai<br>
> <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Dear all,<br>
> >><br>
> >> I just moved to Boston yesterday. 5yr assignment.<br>
> >> Thanks<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Masataro Asai Ph.D<br>
> >><br>
> >> Research Staff Member<br>
> >> IBM Research<br>
> >><br>
> >> Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>
> >> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>
> >> Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>><br>
> >> Website: <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br>
> >><br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Masataro Asai Ph.D<br>
> <br>
> Research Staff Member<br>
> IBM Research<br>
> <br>
> Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>
> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>
> Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Website: <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br>
> <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Masataro Asai Ph.D<br>
<br>
Research Staff Member<br>
IBM Research<br>
<br>
Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>
Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>
Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Masataro Asai, Ph.D<br><br></div><div>Research Staff Member<br></div><div dir="ltr">IBM Research<br><br>Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br><br>Website(private): <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>