Taste is now committed

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.

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability
Nice article on how the Lucene/Hadoop/Solr stack was used to solve a really big problem.  Someday, I hope (when we have actual code),  they can add Mahout to the equation and do even more interesting things with the data.

Apache Mahout - Overview

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.