On Sunday, March 24, 2013 05:38:00 PM Grant Ingersoll wrote: > On Mar 24, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > > What about an experiment: If you (reading this mail) were to write a two > > sentence vision statement for Mahout as you see it - what would that be? > > Produce open source, scalable machine learning code using a community > development model.
So taking that apart: - Hadoop is not necessarily part of the equation. All that we promise are implemenations that are reasonably scalable. - There is no restriction in there wrt. supporting only specific use cases - in particular no restriction to be recommendations only. - There is no restriction to "only batch" or "only online" learning. If we want to be that broad we definitely lack lots of people, I think. The other question that I cannot answer today: Do we want to be a Java Library that people link with their project, a standalone program that people interact with via the command line, a basis that people can easily integrate into their Pig/Hive/Cascalog/Scalding/Cascading/what-ever-else workflows or all of these? > I don't think we've ever lacked for vision. We lack people (I'm very guilty > of this) to carry out the vision of delivering on the contributions of the > community. +1 Isabel
