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Date: Wed Jan 15 11:31:14 2014
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<h1 id="the-official-mahout-faq">The Official Mahout FAQ</h1>
<p><em>General</em></p>
<ol>
-<li><a href="#whatis.html">What is Apache Mahout?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#mean.html">What does the name mean?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#historical.html">Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project? </a></li>
-<li><a href="#logo.html">Where can I download the Mahout logo? </a></li>
-<li><a href="#presentations.html">Where can I download Mahout slide presentations? </a></li>
+<li><a href="whatis">What is Apache Mahout?</a></li>
+<li><a href="mean">What does the name mean?</a></li>
+<li><a href="pronounce">How is the name pronounced?</a></li>
+<li><a href="historical">Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project? </a></li>
+<li><a href="logo">Where can I download the Mahout logo? </a></li>
+<li><a href="presentations">Where can I download Mahout slide presentations? </a></li>
</ol>
<p><em>Algorithms</em></p>
<ol>
-<li><a href="#algos.html">What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#todo.html">What algorithms are missing from Mahout?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hadoop.html">Do I need Hadoop to run Mahout?</a></li>
+<li><a href="algos">What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?</a></li>
+<li><a href="todo">What algorithms are missing from Mahout?</a></li>
+<li><a href="hadoop">Do I need Hadoop to run Mahout?</a></li>
</ol>
-<p><a name="FAQ-*Answers*"></a></p>
<h1 id="answers"><em>Answers</em></h1>
-<p><a name="FAQ-General"></a></p>
<h2 id="general">General</h2>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:whatIs}WhatisApacheMahout?"></a></p>
+<p><a name="whatIs"></a></p>
<h3 id="what-is-apache-mahout">What is Apache Mahout?</h3>
<p>Apache Mahout is a suite of machine learning libraries designed to be
scalable and robust</p>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:mean}Whatdoesthenamemean?"></a></p>
+<p><a name="mean"></a></p>
<h3 id="what-does-the-name-mean">What does the name mean?</h3>
<p>The name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout">Mahout</a>
was original chosen for it's association with the [Apache Hadoop|http://hadoop.apache.org]
@@ -315,34 +314,38 @@ is an elephant.) We just wanted a name
our project as a good driver of Hadoop in the sense that we will be using
and testing it. We are not, however, implying that we are controlling
Hadoop's development.</p>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:historical}WherecanIfindtheoriginsoftheMahoutproject?"></a></p>
+<p>Prior to coming to the ASF, those of us working on the project plan voted between Howdah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah â the carriage on top of an elephant) and Mahout.</p>
+<p><a name="historical"></a></p>
<h3 id="where-can-i-find-the-origins-of-the-mahout-project">Where can I find the origins of the Mahout project?</h3>
<p>See <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080101233917/http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com/index.php?title=Main_Page">http://ml-site.grantingersoll.com</a>
for old wiki and mailing list archives (all read-only)</p>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:logo}WherecanIdownloadMahoutlogo?"></a></p>
+<p>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 "<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3
A%2F%2Fwww.cs.stanford.edu%2Fpeople%2Fang%2Fpapers%2Fnips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf&ei=iaR8TvKYK_DTiALCq7GODg&usg=AFQjCNFaW8ZuT6xuAz61ZaoKaQ7mpmIv2w&sig2=KVaGbhPFI3rKgjtxg4yIjg" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore</a>"</p></p>
+<p><a name="pronounce"></a></p>
+<h3 id="how-is-the-name-pronounced">How is the name pronounced?</h3>
+<p>There are some disagreements about how to pronounce the name. Webster's has it as muh-hout (as in "out" â 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 ×××ת meaning "essence or truth".</p>
+<p><a name="logo"></a></p>
<h3 id="where-can-i-download-the-mahout-logo">Where can I download the Mahout logo?</h3>
<p>See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-335">MAHOUT-335</a></p>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:presentations}WherecanIdownloadMahoutslidepresentations?"></a></p>
+<p><a name="presentations"></a></p>
<h3 id="where-can-i-download-mahout-slide-presentations">Where can I download Mahout slide presentations?</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Books+Tutorials+and+Talks">Books, Tutorials and Talks </a>
Wiki page containing an overview of all presentations with links to slides
where available.</li>
</ul>
-<p><a name="FAQ-Algorithms"></a></p>
<h2 id="algorithms">Algorithms</h2>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:algos}WhatalgorithmsareimplementedinMahout?"></a></p>
+<p><a name="algos"></a></p>
<h3 id="what-algorithms-are-implemented-in-mahout">What algorithms are implemented in Mahout?</h3>
<p>We are interested in a wide variety of machine learning algorithms. Many of
which are already implemented in Mahout. You can find them <a href="http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Algorithms">here </a>
.</p>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:todo}WhatalgorithmsaremissingfromMahout?"></a></p>
+<p><a name="todo"></a></p>
<h3 id="what-algorithms-are-missing-from-mahout">What algorithms are missing from Mahout?</h3>
<p>There are many machine learning algorithms that we would like to have in
Mahout, including some from the paper <a href="http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang/papers/nips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf">http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang/papers/nips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf</a>
. If you have an algorithm or an improvement to an algorithm that you would
like to implement, by all means submit a patch.</p>
-<p><a name="FAQ-{anchor:hadoop}DoIneedHadooptorunMahout?"></a></p>
+<p><a name="hadoop"></a></p>
<h3 id="do-i-need-hadoop-to-use-mahout">Do I need Hadoop to use Mahout?</h3>
<p>Apart from the possibility of running Hadoop jobs in a single node installation there are
a couple of modules that require no Hadoop dependencies whatsoever (except maybe for