On Oct 6, 2013 7:20 PM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes. Indeed. > > Dmitriy has been working with them. I was referencing them when I > mentioned MLI (their super high level system based on mllib) Unfotunately i did not get much traction there. They are taking willing contributers but as far as Mahout is concerned i did not get anywhere. I think Mahout has an edge in some areas but it clearly has weaknesses in terms of iterativity, interactivity, environment for some custom things and pipeline driving. My biggest hope id that scala, a proper dsl and spark with graphX will remove those from consideration, leaving just the edge.
> > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think we should also try to talk to the mllib guys from the Spark > > project and see if there's some potential for collaboration. > > > > Best, > > Sebastian > > > > > > On 06.10.2013 13:18, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > > > On Saturday, October 05, 2013 01:11:40 PM Ted Dunning wrote: > > >> I was asked to answer an anonymous question about the future of Mahout > > on > > >> Quora and thought I should share the answer here as well. > > > > > > > > > Great summary indeed. Thanks for sharing Ted. Agree with all of your > > points. > > > The only thing I'd add would be a documentation clean-up, but that's > > something > > > that could get some attention with moving to Apache CMS. > > > > > > > > > Isabel > > > > > > >
