Thanks Ted, Yea as Grant put, I often find going to wikipedia can confuse me more and sometimes there are acronyms in the statistic scope that mean different things
On 9 Jan 2010, at 20:27, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> Great work. As you may have seen, I have gone in and specialized the >> definitions to make note of the Mahout and machine learning context that >> they are used in here. > > +1 > >> >> Andrew, >> >> These terms often do have wikipedia definitions and these should definitely >> be linked from the glossary entries, but the usage of these terms in this >> project is often somewhat specialized. That specialized should be called >> out in our glossary and contrasted with the more general use in the world >> at large. > > +1. I often find it takes a bit to get from the Wikipedia explanation to the > context of machine learning and/or Mahout, so good to have links to > background reading (incl. Wikipedia) as well as definitions relevant to our > approaches/discussions. > >> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Wang >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> David, >>> >>> When i said wiki, I mean wikipedia. The terms, such as, "map reduce, >>> TFIDF", in the Glossary you posted are already available in wikipedia. >>> Maybe, for those terms, we just can put a URL ref in the Glossary. for >>> other >>> particular terms (the names of the algorithms implemented with mapreduce >>> mode in Mahout ), we can explain them further. >>> >>> Hope this tips are helpfully! >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:32 AM, David Stuart < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Andrew, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the help. Re the wiki I thought thats where I had created it >>> is >>>> there another place to put it? >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> On 9 Jan 2010, at 15:42, Andrew Wang wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi,David, >>>>> >>>>> It sounds like a good idea to have somewhere to introduce the useful >>>>> definiation mentioned in this maillist. However, the wiki maybe a >>> better >>>>> space to find this infomation. Anyway, i am new guy here, nice to find >>>>> somebody else studing mahout at same time. Good luck! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:07 PM, David Stuart < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey Mahouters, >>>>>> >>>>>> Having been subscribed to this list for a couple of months now and in >>>>>> trying to get my head around the some of the big brain discussions >>> that >>>> go >>>>>> down here I have started a new Glossary page on the wiki. That will >>>>>> hopefully shed some light on all of the acronyms that get used the >>> email >>>> and >>>>>> to help newbies like myself with further reading etc. >>>>>> As I see new terms I will try to add them (assuming I get the right >>> ones >>>> !) >>>>>> but it would be useful if you could add references to papers or good >>>>>> explanations >>>>>> >>>>>> Heres the link: >>>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Glossary >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Dave >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://anqiang1900.blog.163.com/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://anqiang1900.blog.163.com/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ted Dunning, CTO >> DeepDyve > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com/ > > Search the Lucene ecosystem using Solr/Lucene: > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search >
