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?) butI am happy if more people come even from the non-CL lisp background.MasataroOn Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:10 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou@gmail.com> wrote:Fare, I'll make the change.Alec, there will be, it will be at Google: 355 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142Anyone who wants to go should email me directly, and we'll meet in theGoogle 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@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 theboston-lisp.common-lisp.net page, to update it?C is a DSL for turning low-level byte arrays into security advisories.—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.orgOn Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 1:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:fahree@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:bitwize@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@gmail.com <mailto:guicho2.71828@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:guicho2.71828@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@gmail.com
Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
--Masataro Asai, Ph.DResearch Staff MemberIBM Research
Tel: +81-44-856-9009
Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
Website(private): http://guicho271828.github.io/