Congrats Andrew, I've taken the coursera course, it was interesting but was hoping it could cover some more in the area of deep learning.
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:19:52 -0600 > Subject: Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I personally am looking forward to the ³advice" from the newest > ³recommended² committer to hadoop. > > Congratulations to Mahout team for increasing and growing :) > > Now back to my using Š. (and hopefully creating something meaningful for > you guys) > > > Scott > > PS: am bootstrapping my Machine Learning knowledge by taking the coursera > course offered by Andrew NG - correct my shaky knowledge of classifiers. > Anyone else on this list taking or have taken this course? (obviously - > committers are probably not, but Š.) > > > On 3/7/14, 11:36 AM, "Andrew Musselman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Thank you for the welcome! Looking forward to it. > > > >I have a math background and got started with recommenders by building the > >first album recommender for Rhapsody ( http://rhapsody.com ) while I was > >doing web development and web services work for the service. Since then I > >learned to love/hate Pig and Hadoop for a living, and now I do data > >engineering and analytics at Accenture. > > > >We've used Mahout on a few production projects, and we're looking forward > >to more. > > > >See you on the lists! > > > >Best > >Andrew > > > > > >On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> this is to announce that the Project Management Committee (PMC) for > >>Apache > >> Mahout has asked Andrew Musselman to become committer and we are > >>pleased to > >> announce that he has accepted. > >> > >> Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since in > >> addition to posting patches on JIRA it also gives write access to the > >>code > >> repository. That also means that now we have yet another person who can > >> commit patches submitted by others to our repo *wink* > >> > >> Andrew, we look forward to working with you in the future. Welcome! It > >> would be great if you could introduce yourself with a few words :) > >> > >> Sebastian > >> > >
