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Add kmeans++ centroid initialization option to kmeans.

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Few small changes, mostly documentation.

/**
* Initialisation method called at the start of each train call.
* Initialisation method called at the start of each train call when
* using uniform centroid initialisation.
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I think this should say "Centroids are initialised using a uniform random sample from the feature domain" somewhere in the javadoc.


// go through every vector and see if the min distance to the
// newest centroid is smaller than previous min distance for vec
double tempDistance;
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There's no need to define tempDistance outside the for loop. Better to keep it inside so the compiler doesn't think it actually lives any longer.

public int iterations = 10;
@Option(charName='d',longName="distance",usage="Distance function to use in the e step. Defaults to EUCLIDEAN.")
public Distance distance = Distance.EUCLIDEAN;
@Option(charName='i',longName="initialisation",usage="Type of initialisation to use for centroids. Defaults " +
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There already is a i argument, so this options class is invalid, could you change it to something else?

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Also, there's no need to put the default into the usage string, I updated the options code to print that automatically. While you're in here could you remove the default bit from the other usage strings? I missed that in the docs pass I did.

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LGTM

@Craigacp Craigacp merged commit f1e301f into oracle:main Sep 3, 2020
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