I have just updated my LinkedIn about the one-month fast-track internal audit in the NICT Knowledge Hub on June 2026. 

I leveraged generative AI for legal and technical compliance cross-referencing and cross-examination during online interviews with department staff and associated vendor, and uncovered unauthorized external involvement from the project's very inception. 

The AI agent system successfully identified that an ideological group with a specific political agenda fundamentally incompatible with the pure technological integrity and scientific mission of the NICT had intervened in the critical data definition and schema design phases.

I never imagined that such a ghost of the past century still haunted the modern era.

I have updated my LinkdIn, particularly about my experience at the Japan AI Safety Institute (JAISI) by including a picture of their business card. I also added the picture of the business card provided by NICT. Why? Am I boasting about something? No!!! Look closely at the two cards, compare them line by line, and imagine how shocked you would be to notice that something critical was missing from one of them. Would you really want to hand out a card like that in public? It's crystal clear.

In the north-east yard of my garden I found the first flowers of Collinsonia japonica - 'Shimo Bashira' in Japanese this morning. I've never mentioned its blossom until this year. I only once mentioned this species in the past. The reason is very simple; I didn't count that species in my record of gardening. Meanwhile, other species haven't blossomed in my garden this summer. This is something I've never experienced before. If I were religiously fanatic, I should say, "This is the deus irae." Sorry, I'm just kidding. 

I called the dentist this afternoon to book an appointment, but the line was dead. Their website has disappeared. This is the second time that a dentist has closed business without any notice. Both of them had established a good reputation among us. What's going in our community? 

I am a computer scientist and a computational intelligence researcher in the field of swarm intelligence. The contemporary terms 'AI safety' and 'AI security' do not fall within my vocabulary; rather, I simply consider that the performance of LLMs should be evaluated using classical measures like precision and recall, along with various other statistical measures. 

Actually, new measures are being published day by day in academia and the business sector. Meanwhile, the discussion on how humans use such statistics effectively is not satisfactory. Go back to the fundamental statistics that involve human evaluation in their use, and go forward to the next step—that is my belief.

Professor Randal C. "Randy" Picker at the University of Chicago Law School suddenly passed away on August 15, 2026. I was shocked by this tremendous loss for our alma mater and academia. I still remember what happened in his law and game theory seminar in the winter quarter of 1999. It was late in the afternoon. Randy showed us his latest findings about a strategic tactic that he was planning to write about for a book on antitrust and economic analysis. A classmate of ours, who had just completed a master's program in pure mathematics at MIT, politely pointed out that a mathematical formula Randy had written on the blackboard seemed to have a flaw. Randy frankly asked him to clarify it for the class. The classmate promised he would bring a better solution the following week. In the next session of the seminar, he brought in his laptop—a rare sight for a student presentation back in 1999—and demonstrated an animation showing that his alternative mathematical formula performed better than Randy's. Randy openly admired what the student had done and appreciated him for correcting his mistake in front of all of us. I was deeply impressed by how humble and honest a giant in academia like him could be. I made up my mind that someday I would follow his example if I were to hold an academic position somewhere. Randy was, is, and always will be my compass in academia. I am truly heartbroken to have lost him. We all love you so much, Randy!

I found my paper published online, and opened its PDF version through IEEE xplore. The PDF didn't show any math formula or algorithm! What is this? 

The conference is "the 6th International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2025), IEEE Press, Changsha, China, Hybrid, November 7 - 9, 2025." 

The conference organizer sent me the camera ready file of my paper in 27th May 2026.

I quote, 'Dear Dr. Sasaki,
I hope this email finds you well.
I am very pleased to inform you that your revised manuscript has now been successfully finalized. Thank you very much for your careful revisions, patience, and kind cooperation throughout the entire process.
Please find the final PDF version of your paper attached. Please review the file at your earliest convenience and reply to this email with confirmation that all contents and formatting are correct.
If there are no further issues, we will proceed with submitting this final version to IEEE Xplore for publication. After publication, IEEE will submit the paper for indexing in EI Compendex and Scopus.
Once the paper is officially available online, we will inform you again by email.
I would also like to thank you again for your support of CSAIA 2025 and for your understanding and cooperation with our editorial work.
Wishing you continued success in your research, and a flourishing academic career.
Best regards,
CSAIA 2025 Organizing Committee' quote ends.

They've never informed me about its publication yet. I found it by myself! 

What are they doing? They have another conference CSAIA 2026 online. What would they do next?! You should watch what they are doing!