On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Isabel Drost wrote: > > I think Mahout is not really suitable to build demos that explain > > the inner workings of the algorithms implemented. > > I agree, but as we develop, we will probably have programmer's guides, > etc. which may go into some of the theory in a practical way.
+1 That sounds great. > > I agree with that. I think once we offer enough functionality to be > > usable for commercial projects it would be nice to gather a list of links > > to users. > > I added a PoweredBy page on the Wiki. Already saw it on the mahout_commit list :) > > I think for that we should rely on datasets that are manageable with > > a few machines. I would guess people evaluating our library or want to add > > more functionality do not necessarily have a huge cluster of machines at > > their disposal. > > Definitely, even a single machine would be fine, but will then easily > scale up (in other words, it does all the Hadoop setup). You don't > really want a demo that runs for more than a few minutes, I don't think. +1 -- When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong. |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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