Beautiful.
On May 27, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
> I heard some time ago that Mahout had a meaning in Hebrew in addition to the
> normal reading that we started with as the driver of the elephant.
>
> Unfortunately, my Hebrew is non-existent beyond recognizing the letters on a
> top so I had to find somebody who knows the language to clarify. I have had
> a few folks promise to send me the correct spelling, but none followed
> through.
>
> Today I finally got a native informant to confirm that mahout in Hebrew or
> rather (מהות) means "essence" or "true meaning". That seems like a pretty
> nice tie-in for a data-mining project.
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