Re: Fold-in for ALSWR

2013-04-29 Thread Chloe
Dear Sean, Thanks a lot for a quick and helpful reply. Having been sidetracked with another project, I revisited the problem I posed in my post over the weekend and, unfortunately, have a follow up question. The problem I'm facing with my implementation of your explanation is that the predicted

Mahout database pooling best practice

2013-04-29 Thread Mugoma Joseph O.
Hello, I am using mahout with MySQL (com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource). However, I keep getting this warning: o.a.m.c.t.impl.model.jdbc.AbstractJDBCDataModel |WARN | 2013-04-18 08:35:40,127 | qtp1380741586-307 | You are not using ConnectionPoolDataSource. Make sure

Re: Mahout database pooling best practice

2013-04-29 Thread Sean Owen
If you are actually using a connection pool, ignore it, it just means the implementation doesn't appear to extend the usual connection pool class in the JDK. Just make sure you are in fact using this class and you're fine. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Mugoma Joseph O. mug...@yengas.com wrote:

Re: Fold-in for ALSWR

2013-04-29 Thread Sean Owen
ALS-WR is not predicting your input matrix R, but the matrix P which is R != 0. It is not predicting ratings, but a 0/1 indicator of whether the connection exists. So the values are usually in [0,1]. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Chloe chloe.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sean, Thanks a lot