Sounds great. I hope to see you guys at the conference if not before :)
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > See http://mloss.org/software/view/144/ > > Let me know if you see any problems. > > As a point of reference, compare to: > http://mloss.org/software/tags/nips2008/ (I didn't want to make it too > long) > > Thanks, Chuck, for the pointer on this. I think it will be worthwhile for > the project if we get accepted. > > -Grant > > > On Sep 29, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > I registered as well. >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >wrote: >> >> I registered on mloss.org and am in the process of writing up a >>> description. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Chuck Lam wrote: >>> >>> I had already planned on going to the conference for other reasons, so I >>> >>>> can >>>> be kind of a "messenger" if none of you can make it. >>>> >>>> Of course, ideally one of you can go and actually participate in the >>>> discussion. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yeah, we need to hurry up, if we're going to do it. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Grant, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I could "force" myself to go if necessary as long as it doesn't >>>>>> conflict >>>>>> with December 2-3. >>>>>> >>>>>> Note the October 1 deadline. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> I'm interested, but don't know if I can attend, as much as I would >>>>>> love >>>>>> >>>>>> to >>>>>>> go to Whistler in December. Let's talk off list, and we can add >>>>>>> others >>>>>>> if >>>>>>> they are interested. We should have a release out w/in the week, so >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> would >>>>>>> think that would be acceptable. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Grant >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Chuck Lam wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've been a lurker on the dev mailing list, hoping to make some code >>>>>>>> contribution at some point but haven't gotten around to it yet :P >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In any case, my background is a machine learning researcher, and I >>>>>>>> want >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> Mahout developers to be aware of this NIPS Workshop on Machine >>>>>>>> Learning >>>>>>>> Open >>>>>>>> Source Software in December of this year. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://mloss.org/workshop/nips08/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> NIPS is one of the top 3-4 conferences for machine learning >>>>>>>> researchers. >>>>>>>> It >>>>>>>> was in fact at this conference in 2006 where the Stanford MapReduce >>>>>>>> machine >>>>>>>> learning paper was presented. (And obviously that paper is an >>>>>>>> important >>>>>>>> reference point for Mahout.) I think it's extremely important for >>>>>>>> Mahout >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> have a presence at the workshop, both to recruit contributors and to >>>>>>>> understand the open source direction of the general machine learning >>>>>>>> community. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The submission deadline is Oct. 1, which obviously is extremely >>>>>>>> tight. >>>>>>>> However, they're only looking for a 500-word abstract right now, and >>>>>>>> deadline for this type of workshop is usually flexible if we can >>>>>>>> convince >>>>>>>> the workshop organizers the importance of our work. Another >>>>>>>> requirement >>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>> that the software must be officially released at the time of >>>>>>>> submission. >>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>> don't know the legal definition of that, but I would think that >>>>>>>> release >>>>>>>> candidate 3 is probably good enough. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I had already planned on attending NIPS, so I'm more than happy to >>>>>>>> help >>>>>>>> one >>>>>>>> of the main Mahout contributors on positioning and presenting Mahout >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> NIPS researchers. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >> >> -- >> ted >> > > >
