1. The document describes the origins and goals of the SystemML project for scalable machine learning. 2. SystemML was created to allow data scientists to write machine learning algorithms in R and automatically compile and optimize them to run efficiently on large datasets in parallel. 3. An example alternating least squares algorithm is shown written concisely in R, while traditional approaches
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