Grant would be available the week of Oct 14 for a hangout (tentatively). We could go ahead and schedule one next week if there's (and seems very much like it) enough response. I can go ahead and facilitate one.
I will be 100% focused on Mahout from next week once I start at my new job from Monday. Regarding building something for Deep Learning, Yexi's patch for MLP (see M-1265) may be a good place to refactor/start thinking about the foundations. I guess Ted is alluring to build something like what's been described in the Google paper (see http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ranzato/publications/DistBeliefNIPS2012_withAppendix.pdf). Correct? Suneel ________________________________ From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <dev@mahout.apache.org> Cc: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <dev@mahout.apache.org> Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2013 2:10 AM Subject: Re: Mahout's future Saikat These are all good suggestions. I would have a hard time suggesting a prioritization of them. Does anybody remember what grant said about having another hangout? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 6, 2013, at 7:15, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I wanted to mention a few other things:1)It might be useful to take and embed > a few already productionalized use cases into the integration tests in > mahout, this will help additional users get on board faster2) Deep learning > is really interesting, however I'd like to help research some common use > cases first before tying this into mahout3) It'd be good to put some thought > into documenting when you would choose what type of algorithm given a > production machine learning recommendation system to build, this would give > more visibility for users into choosing the right mixture of algorithms to > build a production ready recommender, often what I've found is that a bulk of > the time in building productionalized recommenders is spent cleaning and > filtering noisy data4) I'd like to also explore how to tie in machine > learning algorithms into real time systems built using twitter storm > (http://storm-project.net/), it seems that industry more and more is wanting to do real time analytics on the fly, I'm curious what type of algorithms we'd need for this and back propagate these into mahout > > It'd be good to meet like minded devs together locally (Seattle) or over > gtalk/conference to talk through possibilities. > Regards >> From: ted.dunn...@gmail.com >> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 18:13:40 -0700 >> Subject: Re: Mahout's future >> To: dev@mahout.apache.org >> >> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Does it make sense to have a quick meeting of interested developers over >>> google chat/conference rather than email to discuss and assign folks to >>> specifics? >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> Great idea. >> >> I think that Grant may have been organizing a hangout. >
