On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems like a good idea, but it definitely is not impossible to work > around the lack. > And more importantly, it may be a good idea in theory, but has anyone actually used it, or foresee using it soon? It's 9 methods in a core interface. We should make Sean proud of our willingness to kill code as much as we add it, it it's not useful! :) > Having the labels should make certain forms of cluster dumping easier, but > for all the stuff I do with hashed representations, the hashing destroys > any utility of labels. > It *could* make it easier, but none of our current cluster dumping code actually uses it. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-845 Is some recent discussions around how I'd imagine this should be done in practice (and doesn't require these methods). -jake