On Saturday 05 September 2009 17:30:14 Grant Ingersoll wrote: > we are a machine learning project with a commercial > friendly license and a solid community aiming to build fast, production > ready libraries.
+1 I think that summarizes pretty well what I see in Mahout as well. > Java, Hadoop and distributed are important, but secondary in my mind. +1 > +1 to coherent API, but that is always evolving, too. +1 - I see application developers that are maybe a tiny little bit familiar with machine learning as our audience. For those playing around with the algorithms and clicking workflows through a GUI there are other projects that are far more suitable, I'd say. > but those systems always involve quite a bit of engineering to connect the > data fire-hoses into the right spigots. I wonder whether there is any way we can make that easier for users? We certainly cannot support all use cases, but at least for text mining we already have some glue code in place. Isabel -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://main...@spaceboyz.net>
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