Wow. I love that!
On 28/05/10 00:03, Ted Dunning wrote: > I heard some time ago that Mahout had a meaning in Hebrew in addition to the > normal reading that we started with as the driver of the elephant. > > Unfortunately, my Hebrew is non-existent beyond recognizing the letters on a > top so I had to find somebody who knows the language to clarify. I have had > a few folks promise to send me the correct spelling, but none followed > through. > > Today I finally got a native informant to confirm that mahout in Hebrew or > rather (מהות) means "essence" or "true meaning". That seems like a pretty > nice tie-in for a data-mining project. > >
