Re: Welcome New Committer Nikolay Sakharnykh

2017-05-01 Thread Ellen Friedman
Welcome Nikolay, and thank you for all your efforts for Mahout so far!! Ellen Friedman On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > Welcome!! > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Nikolai Sakharnykh < > nsakharn...@nvidia.com> > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I’m sorry for so

Re: Welcome New Committer Nikolay Sakharnykh

2017-05-01 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
Welcome!! On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Nikolai Sakharnykh wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I’m sorry for some delay with my introduction, have been swamped with > other projects recently ☺ > > Having worked at NVIDIA for around 8 years I have seen GPUs to evolve from > specialized graphics proce

Re: New logo

2017-05-01 Thread Ellen Friedman
Just seeing this now, so maybe too late for my vote to count, but here goes. On Process: Pat thanks for organizing. +1 to continue to work on logo. Something without the blue man or elephant is good idea. Prefer not all blue logo. On designs: My favorites two from the second batch (both are blu

Re: Scaling up spark Iitem similarity on big data data sets

2017-05-01 Thread Pat Ferrel
I just ran into the opposite case Sebastian mentions, where a very large % of users have only one interaction. They come from Social media or Search and see only thing and leave. Processing this data turned into a huge job but led to virtually no change in the model since users with very few int

Re: New logo

2017-05-01 Thread Trevor Grant
Thanks Scott, You are correct- in fact we're going even further now, that you can do native optimization regardless of the architecture with native-solvers. Do you or anyone more familiar with the history of the website know anything about the origins/uses of this: https://mahout.apache.org/image

Re: New logo

2017-05-01 Thread scott cote
Trevor et al: Some ideas to spur you on (and related points): Mahout is no longer a grab bag of algorithms and routines, but a math language right? You don’t care about the under the cover implementation. Today its Spark with alternative implementations in Flink, etc …. Don’t know if that is