The only thought I have about it is that there's a to-do to make that stuff actually used and integrate into a wrapper class. I think it's fine to kill it. If someone goes to all the trouble of re-implementing it later it will not have been extra work; it probably was to be redone anyway.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It seems like a good idea, but it definitely is not impossible to work >> around the lack. >> > > And more importantly, it may be a good idea in theory, but has anyone > actually used it, or foresee using it soon? > > It's 9 methods in a core interface. We should make Sean proud of our > willingness to kill code as much as we add it, it it's not useful! :) > > >> Having the labels should make certain forms of cluster dumping easier, but >> for all the stuff I do with hashed representations, the hashing destroys >> any utility of labels. >> > > It *could* make it easier, but none of our current cluster dumping code > actually uses it. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-845 > > Is some recent discussions around how I'd imagine this should be done > in practice (and doesn't require these methods). > > -jake >
