svn commit: r1558346 - /mahout/site/mahout_cms/trunk/content/general/faq.mdtext

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Author: isabel
Date: Wed Jan 15 11:31:11 2014
New Revision: 1558346

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1558346
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Migrate some more content from confluence concerning Mahout's history

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@@ -4,33 +4,32 @@ Title: FAQ
 
 *General*
 
-1. [What is Apache Mahout?](#whatis.html)
-1. [What does the name mean?](#mean.html)
-1. [Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project? ](#historical.html)
-1. [Where can I download the Mahout logo? ](#logo.html)
-1. [Where can I download Mahout slide presentations? ](#presentations.html)
+1. [What is Apache Mahout?](whatis)
+1. [What does the name mean?](mean)
+1. [How is the name pronounced?](pronounce)
+1. [Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project? ](historical)
+1. [Where can I download the Mahout logo? ](logo)
+1. [Where can I download Mahout slide presentations? ](presentations)
 
 *Algorithms*
 
-1. [What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?](#algos.html)
-1. [What algorithms are missing from Mahout?](#todo.html)
-1. [Do I need Hadoop to run Mahout?](#hadoop.html)
+1. [What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?](algos)
+1. [What algorithms are missing from Mahout?](todo)
+1. [Do I need Hadoop to run Mahout?](hadoop)
 
-<a name="FAQ-*Answers*"></a>
 # *Answers*
 
 
-<a name="FAQ-General"></a>
 ## General
 
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:whatIs}WhatisApacheMahout?"></a>
+<a name="whatIs"></a>
 ### What is Apache Mahout?
 
 Apache Mahout is a suite of machine learning libraries designed to be
 scalable and robust
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:mean}Whatdoesthenamemean?"></a>
+<a name="mean"></a>
 ### What does the name mean?
 
 The name [Mahout](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout)
@@ -41,36 +40,44 @@ our project as a good driver of Hadoop i
 and testing it.  We are not, however, implying that we are controlling
 Hadoop's development.
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:historical}WherecanIfindtheoriginsoftheMahoutproject?"></a>
+Prior to coming to the ASF, those of us working on the project plan voted between Howdah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah – the carriage on top of an elephant) and Mahout.
+
+<a name="historical"></a>
 ### Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project?
 
 See [http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com](http://web.archive.org/web/20080101233917/http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)
  for old wiki and mailing list archives (all read-only)
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:logo}WherecanIdownloadMahoutlogo?"></a>
+Mahout was started by <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071228055210/http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com/index.php?title=Main_Page" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Isabel Drost, Grant Ingersoll and Karl Wettin</a>. It <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080201093120/http://lucene.apache.org/#22+January+2008+-+Lucene+PMC+Approves+Mahout+Machine+Learning+Project" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">started</a> as part of the <a href="http://lucene.apache.org" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Lucene</a> project (see the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080102151102/http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com/index.php?title=Incubator_proposal" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">original proposal</a>) and went on to become a top level project in April of 2010.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The original goal was to implement all 10 algorithms from Andrew Ng's paper title &quot;<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CB8QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2
 F%2Fwww.cs.stanford.edu%2Fpeople%2Fang%2Fpapers%2Fnips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf&amp;ei=iaR8TvKYK_DTiALCq7GODg&amp;usg=AFQjCNFaW8ZuT6xuAz61ZaoKaQ7mpmIv2w&amp;sig2=KVaGbhPFI3rKgjtxg4yIjg" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore</a>&quot;</p>
+
+<a name="pronounce"></a>
+### How is the name pronounced?
+
+There are some disagreements about how to pronounce the name. Webster's has it as muh-hout (as in "out" – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mahout), but the Sanskrit/Hindi origins pronounce it as "muh-hoot". The second pronunciation suggests a nice pun on the Hebrew word מהות meaning "essence or truth".
+
+<a name="logo"></a>
 ### Where can I download the Mahout logo?
 
 See [MAHOUT-335](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-335)
 
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:presentations}WherecanIdownloadMahoutslidepresentations?"></a>
+<a name="presentations"></a>
 ### Where can I download Mahout slide presentations?
 
 * [Books, Tutorials and Talks ](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Books+Tutorials+and+Talks)
  Wiki page containing an overview of all presentations with links to slides
 where available.
 
-<a name="FAQ-Algorithms"></a>
 ## Algorithms
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:algos}WhatalgorithmsareimplementedinMahout?"></a>
+<a name="algos"></a>
 ### What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?
 
 We are interested in a wide variety of machine learning algorithms. Many of
 which are already implemented in Mahout. You can find them [here ](http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Algorithms)
 .
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:todo}WhatalgorithmsaremissingfromMahout?"></a>
+<a name="todo"></a>
 ### What algorithms are missing from Mahout?
 
 There are many machine learning algorithms that we would like to have in
@@ -78,7 +85,7 @@ Mahout, including some from the paper [h
 . If you have an algorithm or an improvement to an algorithm that you would
 like to implement, by all means submit a patch.
 
-<a name="FAQ-{anchor:hadoop}DoIneedHadooptorunMahout?"></a>
+<a name="hadoop"></a>
 ### Do I need Hadoop to use Mahout?
 
 Apart from the possibility of running Hadoop jobs in a single node installation there are