On Monday, March 25, 2013 07:22:46 AM Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > 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.
- We play well with small-ish (fits in memory) and large (fits only in memory of many machines) or huge (fits only on disk) datasets. > - 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?
