For the first Board report, I think it is useful to provide a bit of context about what Mahout is, but after that, Board reports should mostly be short and too the point, highlighting any key things that happened since the last report or anything that requires Board attn.
-Grant On May 11, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > Nah I think it's fine to mention. The old "three Cs" meme (CF, > Clustering, Classification) is outdated now so might as well fully > update. If it were something that people just would like someone to > support someday, I'd say let's not yet claim Mahout encompasses those > topics. But yeah watchmaker is legitimate enough. > > Shall we label this notion "genetic algorithms" or "evolutionary > algorithms" in general? > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Sisir Koppaka <sisir.kopp...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Ok...cool. It's just that if it's going on the website by any chance, >> mentioning evolutionary algorithms(org.apache.mahout.ga.watchmaker) might >> attract contributors from the area. There are quite interesting algorithms >> like NSGA-II <http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/codes.shtml>, and several memetic >> algos that could be ported with widely available sources in other >> languages(usually C and C++). >> >> I guess you're right, this isn't in the scope of the board report. It should >> much rather be on the upcoming site on things-to-do or something of that >> nature. >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Sure, that's in scope. There's not much you could call evolutionary in >>> the code base yet, compared to what you see for CF, clustering, >>> classification, and maybe frequent item set mining, in terms of >>> quantity and maturity. So I'm just trying to usefully express the >>> reality of the project's current state, rather than say "it's just >>> machine learning stuff in general" without precluding things like >>> this. >>> >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Sisir Koppaka <sisir.kopp...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> Please correct me if I am wrong - but isn't Mahout also into Evolutionary >>>> Algorithms and Programming? Is it missing in the report by mistake? >>>> >>>> Sisir >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> SK >> -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
