Jake, impressive stuff! Lukas
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Grant, Mahouts, > > I'm very happy for the opportunity to really dig in and help build this > project towards its potential, and no longer feel as much of the guilt by > filing a gazillion JIRA tickets which I know will fall on somebody else's > head to review and commit. :) > > Background, where to begin... "I was born in London...", no, wait, that's > a bit far back. Here we go: Originally trained in math and physics, to the > point of being enrolled in enough PhD programs (none completed, oh well) > that my financial counselor wonders whether I'll have my student loans paid > off before my kids start college (current bet: 2:1 odds against). I got > diverted into the software world during TechBubble_1.0, where I've been > ever > since. I've worked at a bunch of startups (as well as a few bigger > companies I think are more adequately described as an "endup" in > comparison), where I learned a bunch about IR/search and a little about > NLP. Now I work at LinkedIn, where I originally helped build our > distributed real-time search engine (on top of Lucene as well as some other > extensions we built in-house and subsequently open-sourced, such as > the zoie<http://zoie.googlecode.com/>project for the real-time search > piece, and > bobo-browse <http://bobo-browse.googlecode.com> for faceting), which uses > our social graph as a key component in search relevance. > > Now I'm responsible for recommender systems at LinkedIn, and am building > a generalized entity-to-entity recommendation engine platform (think: when > you post a job on our jobs portion of the site, we recommend some profiles > of members who would be a good match for the job [Job as Query for > Members], > or the reverse: jobs you might want to look at [Member as query for Jobs], > or news articles you might like [Members as query for News], or > personalized > ad targeting [Member as query for Ads], or questions relevant to an > interest > group [Group as query for Q&A], or people like this person [Member as query > for Members], etc... ). This current role is what kick-started me to > collect the bits of code I'd written over the years to do massive matrix > computations and put them in one place - the decomposer > project<http://decomposer.googlecode.com>is where I put them, until I > realized that matrix decompositions and > dimensional reduction aren't really as "sexy" enough a project to actually > get much of a community around all by themselves, so I'm currently porting > all that code into Mahout which isn't already here (follow MAHOUT-180 for > more details as that progresses, although now that I can assign JIRA tasks > to myself [once my account is set up], I may break that into many more > sub-tasks to break of more bite-sized chunks for Mahout to digest). > > So enough blathering on. If you want to know more about me, my LinkedIn > profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemannix> has a more detailed > professional view, Twitter has me in roughly > 1/(fine-structure-constant-of-QED)-byte sized > snippets<http://www.twitter.com/pbrane>, > and I've got the beginnings of a blog <http://www.decomposer.org/blog> as > well, but I'm not updating that terribly much lately, because just as Sean > is hard-at-work on a book on Mahout, I'm supposed to be spending all of my > "authoring" time writing a book for Manning as well: "Lucene in Depth", as > a > kind-of follow-on / advanced topics book to go beyond Hatcher, Gospodnetic > and McCandless' awesome Lucene in Action introductory text. > > Looking forward to working with y'all more in the future. > > -jake > > p.s. For those of you in the S.F. Bay Area, LinkedIn is hiring both > Analytics Scientists (to research ways of using our Big Data to make > interesting new products), as well as IR and ML software engineers to work > on our distributed platforms (including hadoop and voldemort), search > infrastructure, and working with me on recommender systems. Email me for > details if you're interested in hearing more! > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has elected to grant > committer > > status to Jake Mannix. Jake has been doing some really great work with > > Mahout recently and I am sure I speak on everyone's behalf when I say I > look > > forward to working more with Jake on Mahout. > > > > Jake, it is customary in Lucene when adding a new committer that the > > committer provide a little background on themselves, so feel free to jump > > in! > > > > Cheers, > > Grant > > > > > > -------------- > > Want to be a Mahout committer? See > > http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/howtobecomeacommitter.html for more > > information. >
