Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Why Lucene Isn’t That Good | Javalobby
Patches welcome…  I know that is an old saw, but that is the only way it’s going to get better.
There are some good points in here, and some stuff that is a bit dramatic.
We do try to keep adapting Lucene and make it better, but in some respects we [...]

Jeff Eastman’s Marvelous Cloud Computing Adventure
Mahout’s newest committer, Jeff Eastman, has a new blog on Mahout and Hadoop…

SummerOfCode2008 – General Wiki
Check out the Apache Summer of Code page (link above) to see how you can spend the summer developing large scale machine learning algorithms and help out the Mahout project.  We’d love to have a few students put together a some projects implementing one or more machine learning algorithms using Hadoop.  So, [...]

I committed a first crack at k-means clustering to Mahout last night, thanks again to Jeff Eastman’s excellent work.  This means Mahout now has two clustering algorithms designed to run using Hadoop’s map reduce algorithm, meaning it should be able to scale up to very large data sets.
To learn more about k-means, see the Mahout [...]