On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Reshmi Raji <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> My first mail got posted on mailing list( >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-dev/201307.mbox/browser) >> on >> 6 th of this month.But again in between Jenkins build errors are found on >> mailing list . I used to get all updates. Till now no mentors has >> responded >> to my request. >> Now what shall I do? >> Can I have any hope that someone will help me? >> In my Proposal what shall I mention in the place of Mentors Name? >> >> >> -- > > > Remember that last week was a long holiday weekend, where lots of people > would be on vacation for the whole week. As I mentioned before, although we > encourage students to work on their own ideas, it's usually harder or at > least poses a bit more work as the students have to convince the project > and the mentor to take the idea. > > Also, have you done any research to make sure the algorithm is not yet > available in Mahout ? I was doing a quick search on the internet, and found > some slides [1] which mention that Mahout might already have an > implementation of the algorithm (slide 19 and then slide 38). Anyway, > this is something the Mahout dev community needs to answer to you... > > You might want to have a backup plan (e.g. another possible project), in > case you can not find a mentor for this or the feature is already available > in Mahout. > > > [1] > https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CE4QFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.cs.wpi.edu%2F~cs525%2Fs13-MYE%2Flectures%2F6%2FHadoopAnalytics.pptx&ei=NfbaUY2lNIrU8wTmtoDYDA&usg=AFQjCNGfvCQGDrY-yVBugWaj5N0ood6T2Q&sig2=BEgIRv_a1mpbuwMkM88p-w > > > > How are things going Reshmi ? Were you able to research if Mahout already have an implementation of the algorithm you were planning to get implemented as part of your proposal ? -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
