Re: Welcome Drew Farris
On 18.02.2010 Drew Farris wrote: I'm looking forward to working with you all, Welcome to the Mahout community, Drew. Looking forward to working with you. Isabel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Welcome Drew Farris
On behalf of the Lucene PMC, I'm happy to announce Drew Farris as the newest member of the Mahout committer family. Drew has been contributing some really nice work to Mahout in recent months and I look forward to his continuing involvement with Mahout. Congrats, Drew! -Grant
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Robin Anil wrote: Welcome Drew @Grant: No customary introduction? :) Sorry, forgot that. Drew, tradition is new committers give a little background on themselves. I can add one tidbit: I worked w/ Drew way back when at TextWise, so I'm glad he showed up here! Robin On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.orgwrote: On behalf of the Lucene PMC, I'm happy to announce Drew Farris as the newest member of the Mahout committer family. Drew has been contributing some really nice work to Mahout in recent months and I look forward to his continuing involvement with Mahout. Congrats, Drew! -Grant
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
Hi Grant, fellow Mahouts, Thanks for the chance to join the team. I really look forward to contributing my skills to the project and learning a great deal as well. So, a little bit about myself; It all started with an Apple //+ back in 1982. Growing up, I never thought I'd do something serious with computers. In college I studied Computer Graphics in the Art School, Architecture and ended up getting a Masters in Information Resource Management on top of that. Since then I've been a software developer and who has brushed up against information retrieval, search and NLP for many years. I got my start in search and content management working as a web-developer for a newspaper in the early days of the Internet. As Grant mentioned, I've worked at TextWise for a number of years. The company grew out of a NLP-oriented research group headed by Liz Liddy at Syracuse University and continues to focus on the commercial applications of text-oriented technologies albeit with a more statistical orientation as of late. While a TextWise, I've worked on projects ranging everything from cross-language IR to contextual advertising. Mostly I've been involved in developing the glue that holds the core algorithms together, helping them scale and combining the various moving parts of an system into a cohesive whole. I've had a chance to do everything from web crawling, document processing, database, visualization, web-app and distributed systems work. To that end, I've worked on an off with Lucene, Nutch, and many other projects from the Apache ecosystem for years. Reading Programming Collective Intelligence a couple years back really solidified my interest in machine learning algorithms. After building a number of different systems to process large amounts of content, the ability to quickly and effortlessly scale things up with hadoop/mapreduce really appeals to me. Thje Mahout project is wonderful to me in that it combines the these things I'm interested in personally, has relevance to the things I do for work and has a really outstanding group of people working on it. I'm looking forward to working with you all, Drew On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Robin Anil robin.a...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Drew @Grant: No customary introduction? :) Robin On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.orgwrote: On behalf of the Lucene PMC, I'm happy to announce Drew Farris as the newest member of the Mahout committer family. Drew has been contributing some really nice work to Mahout in recent months and I look forward to his continuing involvement with Mahout. Congrats, Drew! -Grant
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
We have already enjoyed working with you and look forward to more of it. Good to have you on board. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Drew Farris drew.far...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking forward to working with you all, -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
Welcome Drew! I've been using your excellent colloc code quite a bit in testing my svd stuff (produces nicely bigger vectors out of text!), looking forward to more cool stuff (NLP package! Bring it on! :) ). -jake On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Drew Farris drew.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Grant, fellow Mahouts, Thanks for the chance to join the team. I really look forward to contributing my skills to the project and learning a great deal as well. So, a little bit about myself; It all started with an Apple //+ back in 1982. Growing up, I never thought I'd do something serious with computers. In college I studied Computer Graphics in the Art School, Architecture and ended up getting a Masters in Information Resource Management on top of that. Since then I've been a software developer and who has brushed up against information retrieval, search and NLP for many years. I got my start in search and content management working as a web-developer for a newspaper in the early days of the Internet. As Grant mentioned, I've worked at TextWise for a number of years. The company grew out of a NLP-oriented research group headed by Liz Liddy at Syracuse University and continues to focus on the commercial applications of text-oriented technologies albeit with a more statistical orientation as of late. While a TextWise, I've worked on projects ranging everything from cross-language IR to contextual advertising. Mostly I've been involved in developing the glue that holds the core algorithms together, helping them scale and combining the various moving parts of an system into a cohesive whole. I've had a chance to do everything from web crawling, document processing, database, visualization, web-app and distributed systems work. To that end, I've worked on an off with Lucene, Nutch, and many other projects from the Apache ecosystem for years. Reading Programming Collective Intelligence a couple years back really solidified my interest in machine learning algorithms. After building a number of different systems to process large amounts of content, the ability to quickly and effortlessly scale things up with hadoop/mapreduce really appeals to me. Thje Mahout project is wonderful to me in that it combines the these things I'm interested in personally, has relevance to the things I do for work and has a really outstanding group of people working on it. I'm looking forward to working with you all, Drew On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Robin Anil robin.a...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Drew @Grant: No customary introduction? :) Robin On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: On behalf of the Lucene PMC, I'm happy to announce Drew Farris as the newest member of the Mahout committer family. Drew has been contributing some really nice work to Mahout in recent months and I look forward to his continuing involvement with Mahout. Congrats, Drew! -Grant
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Jake Mannix jake.man...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Drew! I've been using your excellent colloc code quite a bit in testing my svd stuff (produces nicely bigger vectors out of text!), looking forward to more cool stuff (NLP package! Bring it on! :) ). Heh, great to hear! There's lots more stuff I'd like to get in there, now I only need to figure how to squeeze 48 hours of consciousness into a day.
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Drew Farris wrote: There's lots more stuff I'd like to get in there, now I only need to figure how to squeeze 48 hours of consciousness into a day. I believe there is a compression algorithm for that.
Re: Welcome Drew Farris
Welcome Drew =D On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Drew Farris wrote: There's lots more stuff I'd like to get in there, now I only need to figure how to squeeze 48 hours of consciousness into a day. I believe there is a compression algorithm for that.
