I am not sure of your question about tests...

there are in-memory tests which you can by 'mvn test' in /math-scala
module; distributed tests are done per engine under 'spark', 'h2o' or
'flink' modules.


On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote:

> i meant "not so much a library"
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Khurrum,
>>
>> mahout is so much  a library at this point.
>>
>> if you mean if it can be used to build networks with 2d inputs, yes i did
>> some of that. multi-epoch SGD based systems should be easy enough to build,
>> and will probably have a reasonable performance -- although I think
>> dedicated CNN systems like Caffe would still run faster at this point. Full
>> batch trainers are somewhat slow for larger problems though, my
>> investigation points that  there are architectural problems in spark that
>> are hard to overcome at this point for high IO algorithms.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Khurrum Nasim <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Can Mahout be used for things like face detection ?    Also which unit
>>> tests or integration tests do you recommend I should run just to get a
>>> better feel of the execution flow.
>>>
>>> I’m still slowly acclimating to the project.  But hopefully should come
>>> up to speed soon.
>>>
>>>
>>> Many Thanks,
>>>
>>> Khurrum
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Mar 30, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thanks Khurrum for stepping up.
>>> >
>>> > You just need basic programming skills - Java/Scala to be able to
>>> > contribute. We can help you with the algorithms and linear algebra
>>> stuff.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Welcome aboard !!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Khurrum Nasim <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Thanks for the advice Dimitry.  I’m already signed up on ASF jira.
>>> My
>>> >> handle is “nasimk”
>>> >>
>>> >> Do I need to be a linear algebra expert and or math phd  to
>>> contribute ?
>>> >> I have 10 plus years of computer programming experience.  my
>>> background is
>>> >> comp sci.
>>> >>
>>> >> Khurrum
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> PS You may also want to sign up with ASF Jira so we can assign
>>> issues to
>>> >>> yourself.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Khurrum Nasim <
>>> >> [email protected]>
>>> >>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> Thanks Dimirtry.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I take a look at see where I can start pitching in.  Do I need
>>> >>>>> contributor access ? how  would I create feature branch of my work
>>> ?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Khurrum,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> you only need github account. What you need is to create mahout's
>>> master
>>> >>>> fork in your github space and keep it in sync, as possible, with
>>> master
>>> >> as
>>> >>>> you go (by doing regular pulls). That way you have the most chance
>>> of
>>> >>>> having least conflicts possible.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> At any point in time (I recommend at perhaps when you feel you are
>>> about
>>> >>>> 50 to 70% done or just need a code advice), you can create a github
>>> pull
>>> >>>> request to the apache/mahout master. Make sure to include MAHOUT-XXX
>>> >> issue
>>> >>>> in the head of the pull request, that way ASF will automatically
>>> >> propagate
>>> >>>> code comments to jira, and so all discussion can be done entirely on
>>> >> github.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Again, if you take on a signficant contribution (such as a new
>>> numerical
>>> >>>> method contribution), I recommend to discuss the proposal on the
>>> @dev
>>> >> list
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> thanks.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Khurrum
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]>
>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Oh but of course! please do!
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> You may work on any issue, this or any other of your choice, or
>>> even
>>> >> on
>>> >>>>> any
>>> >>>>>> new issue you can think of (for sizeable contributions it is
>>> >>>>> recommended to
>>> >>>>>> start discussion on the @dev list first though, to make sure to
>>> >> benefit
>>> >>>>>> from experience of others. Please file any new issue first to
>>> jira).
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:05 AM, shashi bushan dongur (JIRA) <
>>> >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>  [
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1788?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15218216#comment-15218216
>>> >>>>>>> ]
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> shashi bushan dongur commented on MAHOUT-1788:
>>> >>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Hello. I would like to start contributing to mahout. Can I work
>>> on
>>> >> this
>>> >>>>>>> issue?
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> spark-itemsimilarity integration test script cleanup
>>> >>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>              Key: MAHOUT-1788
>>> >>>>>>>>              URL:
>>> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1788
>>> >>>>>>>>          Project: Mahout
>>> >>>>>>>>       Issue Type: Improvement
>>> >>>>>>>>       Components: cooccurrence
>>> >>>>>>>> Affects Versions: 0.11.0
>>> >>>>>>>>         Reporter: Pat Ferrel
>>> >>>>>>>>         Assignee: Pat Ferrel
>>> >>>>>>>>         Priority: Trivial
>>> >>>>>>>>          Fix For: 1.0.0
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> binary release does not contain data for itemsimilarity tests,
>>> neith
>>> >>>>>>> binary nor source versions will run on a cluster unless data is
>>> hand
>>> >>>>> copied
>>> >>>>>>> to hdfs.
>>> >>>>>>>> Clean this up so it copies data if needed and the data is in
>>> both
>>> >>>>>>> versions.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> --
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>>> >>>>>>> (v6.3.4#6332)
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>>
>>>
>>
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