On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Anand Avati <[email protected]> wrote:
> > c) abandon the pretense/goal that Mahout aims to be backend independent and > admit/become Spark specific. > > For the record, there has never been said the work is backend-independent for _anything_. The claim has always been much more modest. It was said it was backend-independent for R-(matlab)-like algebraic expressions. which it is. And it is not even main side of the story. I suspect there are couple of more areas in general math beyond "base" R algebra where abstractions can also be built and be useful and be engine independent. Like i said, the true solution is probably ports of non-algebraic portions of quasi-algebraic solution (i.e. b + doing something h2o specific for that work if desired). Smart componentization of concerns may (or may not) go a long way here (just like in tests).
