Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Ted Dunning
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Pat Ferrel wrote: > maybe we should drop the name Mahout altogether. I have been told that there is a cool secondary interpretation of Mahout as well. I think that the Hebrew word is pronounced roughly like Mahout. מַהוּת The cool

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Muhammed Olgun
Hi folks, I have been following Mahout for a long time. I used it in some of my projects. Honey Badget... yes I think it is cool and funny. But I think it is not able to represent the Mahout. Mahout is about learning, math and abstract things. What does describe Mahout better? For me, "Doing

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread dustin vanstee
Hi , I am a newcomer to the project, and I think the current website definitely could use a re-build. One of the things I think that enables quick adoption of any new project are the quick start tutorials. In particular I like the way the Apache zeppelin site is structured. There is a lot of

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Trevor Grant
To date we have referred to the GPU/CPU/CUDA as 'pluggable native-solvers'. 'plugable backends' are the Spark - Flink -H20- whatever. With the advent of both, I could see the confusion and we may want to rethink the naming as part of of this too. Trevor Grant Data Scientist

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Trevor Grant
I don't think the backends we have now off the shelf are particularly exciting, but the fact you CAN plug different ones back in is the value prop (and a big one that we need to 'sell' more). The difference is subtle but since this is the marketing thread also worth bringing up. Basically to your

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Pat Ferrel wrote: > The multiple backend support is such a waste of time IMO. The DSL and GPU > support is super important and should be made even more distributed. The > current (as I understand it) single threaded GPU per VM is only the

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Pat Ferrel
The multiple backend support is such a waste of time IMO. The DSL and GPU support is super important and should be made even more distributed. The current (as I understand it) single threaded GPU per VM is only the first step in what will make Mahout important for a long time to come. Think of