I understood it to mean module, unit of functionality, subroutine.
On May 5, 2014 3:50 AM, "phoenix bai" <mingzhi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am reading the doc of spark ( http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.9.0/mllib-guide.html#gradient-descent-primitive). I am trying to translate the doc into Chinese, and there it talks about gradient descent primitive, and but i am not quite sure what it mean by primitive? > > I know gradient descent, but I am not sure what he is referring to by gradient descent primitive? does it mean the most basic form of gradient descent? > > please enlighten me. thank you in advance.
