Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

It’s that time of year again: time to vote for SXSW talks.  Last year I did a talk with RC Johnson of BazaarVoice on Solr as NoSQL, this year I thought I would try to fly solo and submitted a talk on Apache Mahout. So, if you are so inclined to do the whole crowdsourcing [...]

Ted Dunning has a nice blurb on “scale free” development and Mahout/Hadoop/Map Reduce that is worth the quick read: Surprise and Coincidence – musings from the long tail: Real-time decision making using map-reduce

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU I’ll be at BarCampRDU tomorrow.  I proposed two sessions, one on Hadoop and Mahout and one on Lucene and Solr.  I don’t think I really want to do both, but I would like to do at least one, so we’ll see what other people are interested in. If you’re around and [...]

HP, Intel and Yahoo To Research Cloud Computing – Yahoo News Boy, this could really come in handy in Open Source, especially projects like Mahout, Nutch and distributed Solr.  I find my biggest personal challenge on Mahout is access to computing resources.  I personally don’t have the financial backing to buy much time on Amazon [...]

Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!) Congrats to the Hadoop team!  Score one for Open Source!

I haven’t tried it yet (pesky day job   ) but I see that Taste is now committed to Mahout.  In fact, I think Sean has already started on some parallelization efforts!  Very cool.

Wow!  Mahout has just got me pumped up.  I feel like we’ve got a lot of positive momentum and that we are starting to get the various pieces of our suite of machine learning libraries in place.  Various news items include: Ted Dunning is now a committer!  Welcome Ted! I put up a patch for [...]

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 [...]

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 didn’t think we would [...]

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