Is there any interest in an IRC bug bash to groom and prioritize? Trying to get a hand-hold on where to start.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com > wrote: > Thanks guys! I'll poke around your jira and start that way. > > Looking forward to it. > > Best > Andrew > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Sebastian Schelter < > ssc.o...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Great to hear that you use Mahout in production! If you want to start >> working on it, you can either browse our jira issues or propose some >> issue to work on yourself. >> >> If you need some input, it would be awesome to enhance our ALS >> recommenders with cross-validation and tooling for finding a good >> regularization parameter. >> >> On 05.04.2013 01:56, Andrew Musselman wrote: >> > In case this thread is still a good place to reply with an offer to >> help, >> > I'd love to pitch in. I have built a few production recommenders, most >> > recently using Mahout at a large retailer along with my partner where we >> > used ALS, with a pipeline of transforming transactions in XML into >> vectors >> > using Pig, running them through Mahout, and writing to Cassandra. I've >> > also used Hadoop extensively and am experienced writing non-trivial UDF >> > libraries for Pig, so I am comfortable in that world. >> > >> > Where to start? Do you guys have bugs ranked in priority? >> > >> > Thanks >> > Andrew >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Longest <dlong...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >>> Have you used Mahout in some context before? Did you already checkout >> the >> >>> code base and build it? It usually helps if you are looking into >> >> solving a >> >>> specific problem with the project to find an area that interests you >> >>> personally. >> >> >> >> I worked through the Coursera ML course, which is how I heard about >> >> Mahout. I then read through some of Mahout in Action. I have checked >> >> out the codebase, had difficulty building it on Windows, but I've done >> >> it successfully on Ubuntu tonight so full steam ahead. Not sure I have >> >> a specific interest, seen a lot of good ideas thrown around on this >> >> thread this week. Ted had listed some possible GSOC ideas that I'd be >> >> open to if no students took them on. I see the JIRA has an "intro" >> >> tag, was going to explore some of those a bit to get my feet wet. >> >> >> >> Daniel >> >> >> > >> >> >
