Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Good Math, Bad Math : Databases are hammers; MapReduce is a screwdriver. Well stated response to a criticism on Map Reduce.  Adding my own two cents, I once used Hadoop, a free open source implementation of Map Reduce (M/R) in a proof of concept implementation, to automatically translate (as in machine translation) a large (in [...]

Apache Mahout – Overview It’s official!  Mahout is now an official subproject of Lucene at the Apache Software Foundation.  Mahout’s goal is to create a suite of practical, scalable machine learning libraries.

Coderspiel / January 2008 I hardly think Lucene is creating an isolationist culture, nor do we think our project is perfect.  What we do agree on is that our time is better spent on figuring out how to make Lucene better, not how to spend our time doing UNIX administration in a virtual server environment.  [...]

Coderspiel / The right tool for the slob This guy’s comment system wasn’t working at the moment, so I will leave my comment here. This won’t make much sense without reading the post first: It’s funny you mention Wikipedia as an example, since they are running Lucene. As is Technorati and the Internet Archive. As [...]

Lucene: A Tacit Admission of Fail? : ob.blog If ob.blog gave this post a moment of thought before sharing it with the world, he would quickly realize that hosting a live, 24/7, high traffic site takes more than just some code that one can execute. Perhaps ob.blog is volunteering to donate computing resources, support staff, [...]