http://lucene.grantingersoll.com The search engine for the rest of us. Tue, 06 May 2008 11:02:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/05/06/mahout-news/ Lucid Imagination Well, the cat is out of the bag.  In case you haven't heard, a few Lucene/Solr/Mahout committers (Erik Hatcher and Yonik Seeley) and I have teamed up with some other long time search veterans (Marc Krellenstein from Northern Light and former CTO of Reed Elsevier, amongst others) to build ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/05/02/what-ive-been-up-to-lately-lucid-imagination/ Manning: Taming Text Scary...  I guess it is real! http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/04/28/manning-taming-text/ 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 ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/04/23/barcamprdu/ 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 ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/04/20/mahout-machine-learning-fun/ 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, ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/03/28/why-lucene-isnt-that-good-javalobby/ Jeff Eastman's Marvelous Cloud Computing Adventure Mahout's newest committer, Jeff Eastman, has a new blog on Mahout and Hadoop... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/03/28/jeff-eastmans-marvelous-cloud-computing-adventure/ 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 ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/03/12/summerofcode2008-looking-for-a-summer-project-in-machine-learning/ 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 ... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/03/01/mahout-k-means-clustering/ FeatherCast » Blog Archive » Episode 43: Lucene I did a FeatherCast today with Rich Bowen.  Dang, he is quick at editing... http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/02/21/feathercast-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-episode-43-lucene/