On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, i think this one is in terms of documentation.
I meant, this patch one is going in in terms of its effects for API and their docs. > > Wiki technically doesn't require annotation to be useful in describing > method use though. > > No plans for command line as of the moment as far as i know. What you > would suggest people should see there in addition to what they cannot > see on wiki? > >> >> When you're just trying out a package - especially one where a prime >> benefit you're hoping for is scalability - and you hit an unadvertised >> limit in scaling, there's a strong tendency to write off the entire >> project as "not quite ready". Especially when you don't have a lot of >> time dig into code to understand problems. >> > > I am not sure about this. Mahout is very much like R or sciPy, i.e. a > data representation framework that glues a collection of methods > ranging widely in their performance (and, in this case, yes, maturity, > that's why it is not a 1.0 project yet). I see what you are saying but > in the same time I also cannot figure why would anybody be tempted to > write off an R as a whole just because some of its numerous packages > provides an implementation that scales less or less accurate than > other implementations in R. > > Also as far as i understand advices against Naive Bayes are generally > not due to quality of its implementation in Mahout but are rather > based on characteristics of this method as opposed to SGD and the > stated problem. NB is easy to implement and that's why it's popular, > but not because it is a swiss army knife. Therefore, they generally > would be true Mahout or not. > > -D
