Re: Intro from a lurker

2017-02-08 Thread Trevor Grant
Hey Jim! Would love to have you help out. A first step might be familiarizing your self a bit with the Mahout R-Like DSL Samsera: https://mahout.apache.org/users/environment/in-core-reference.html https://mahout.apache.org/users/environment/out-of-core-reference.html A good place to start would

Re: Intro from a lurker

2017-02-08 Thread Suneel Marthi
Curious JimJag, Did some dude from CapitalOne poke u about Mahout, I was doing a talk to some CapOne and other DC Big Data folks in Vienna VA some 2-3 weeks back and pretty much lost the entire crowd when I got to explaining column-row matrix multiplication. ☺ On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Jim

Intro from a lurker

2017-02-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
Hello there! I've been following Mahout and lurking for a long, long time. I never really had the cycles to get involved, but I always found it a very interesting project, and the whole ML area as fascinating as well... Anyway, I'm looking for some new projects to basically help out with and

[jira] [Commented] (MAHOUT-1786) Make classes implements Serializable for Spark 1.5+

2017-02-08 Thread ASF GitHub Bot (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1786?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15858824#comment-15858824 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on MAHOUT-1786: Github user dlyubimov commented on the issue:

[jira] [Commented] (MAHOUT-1894) Add support for Spark 2x backend

2017-02-08 Thread ASF GitHub Bot (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1894?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15858128#comment-15858128 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on MAHOUT-1894: Github user skanjila commented on the issue:

FINAL REMINDER: CFP for ApacheCon closes February 11th

2017-02-08 Thread Rich Bowen
Dear Apache Enthusiast, This is your FINAL reminder that the Call for Papers (CFP) for ApacheCon Miami is closing this weekend - February 11th. This is your final opportunity to submit a talk for consideration at this event. This year, we are running several mini conferences in conjunction with