Apache Mahout 0.13.0 just dropped- a huge release that adds support for Spark CPU/GPU acceleration via native solvers. Apache Mahout is a linear algebra library that runs on top of any distributed engine that have bindings written. The Mahout community maintains…

There are several reasons one might need to adjust the Spark configuration. For example, many machine learning libraries require Kryo Serialization.

I recommend creating a whole project specifically dedicated to monkeying around…