fix flaky tests

Python 2.6 does not handle float error well as 2.7+

Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>

Closes #1910 from davies/fix_test and squashes the following commits:

7e51200 [Davies Liu] fix flaky tests
SPARK-2830 [MLlib]: re-organize mllib documentation

As per discussions with Xiangrui, I've reorganized and edited the mllib documentation.

Author: Ameet Talwalkar <atalwalkar@gmail.com>

Closes #1908 from atalwalkar/master and squashes the following commits:

fe6938a [Ameet Talwalkar] made xiangruis suggested changes
840028b [Ameet Talwalkar] made xiangruis suggested changes
7ec366a [Ameet Talwalkar] reorganize and edit mllib documentation