Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Manning: Taming Text
Scary…  I guess it is real!

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU
Threw my name in the ring for BarCamp RDU today.  Haven’t been to BarCamp before, but Erik Hatcher suggested I go and check it out.
Also put in a Proposed Session of “Apache Mahout and Hadoop - Having fun with Map Reduce and distributed computing”.  Figure we talk about the basics of M/R, Hadoop [...]

It’s been an interesting few months over in Mahout land. First off, I am psyched about the response the project has been getting. Seems like there is a pent up demand for large scale machine learning these days.  I figured we would do all right in the early months, but I [...]