I'd like to congratulate Sean and Cloudera on shipping a system that does a few things well and then lets you put them into production easily.
This feels like the direction Mahout ought to go as well, and the group's been going toward a simpler system recently. My reason for using Mahout is that it has a good array of tools, uses Colt, etc., but it is still hard for most people to use. That's something to improve. Best Andrew
