#mahout — Public Fediverse posts

@quoll thanks for a new word 🙂 "A #mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper. Mahouts were used since antiquity for both civilian and military use. Traditionally, mahouts came from ethnic groups with generations of elephant keeping experience, with a mahout retaining his #elephant throughout its working life or service years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout

@mainec @pbrane I remember #Mahout well! I always wanted to find a use case for the #recsys algo built into it, but never got a job at a place with #hadoop. I'm guessing with the decline in hadoop, Mahout is no longer being developed? Nice to meet u!