A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?"
The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." Sounds like the honey badger to me... Trevor Grant Data Scientist https://github.com/rawkintrevo http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo http://trevorgrant.org *"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil* On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote: > The little blue man (the mahout) was reborn (samsara) as a honey-badger? > He must be close indeed to reaching true enlightenment, or is that Buddhism? > > > On Mar 23, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Andrew Palumbo <ap....@outlook.com> wrote: > > +1 on revamp. > > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> > Date: 03/23/2017 12:36 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: u...@mahout.apache.org, dev@mahout.apache.org > Subject: Marketing > > Hey user and dev, > > With 0.13.0 the Apache Mahout project has added some significant updates. > > The website is starting to feel 'dated' I think it could use a reboot. > > The blue person riding the elephant has less signifigance in > Mahout-Samsara's modular backends. > > Would like to open the floor to discussion on website reboot (and who might > be willing to take on such a project), as well as new mascot. > > To kick off- in an offline talk there was the idea of > A honey badger (bc honey-badger don't care, just like mahout don't care > what back end or native solvers you are using, and also bc a cobra bites a > honey badger and he takes a little nap then wakes up and finishes eating > the cobra. honey badger eats snakes, and does all the work while the other > animals pick up the scraps. > see this short documentary on the honey badger: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg ) > ^^audio not safe for work > > Con: its almost tooo jokey. > > Other idea: are coy-wolfs. > > Trevor Grant > Data Scientist > https://github.com/rawkintrevo > http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo > http://trevorgrant.org > > *"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil* > >