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Photography, cycling, data & engineering, open source. All the photos and opinions are my own. Click "Media" to see only photos. Usage under CC-BY.

Russia -> Serbia

View my blog: https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/
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This is an old post from 2023, but it think it still may be interesting for anyone, who is thinking about #cycling adventure in #Serbia or at #Balkan region in general. The story of my 700km trip along Danube river and a way back. #bikesky

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Cycling Eastern Serbia
I would like to tell you about my bicycle trip through Eastern Serbia. This part of the world is beautiful, but there is a big problem with lack of information in English. So I will try to fill this g...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
New blog post (engineering)!

I'm exploring the problem of generating node embeddings at scale of big-data graphs in a distributed way.

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Graph Embeddings at scale with Spark and GraphFrames
In this blog post, I will recount my experience working on the addition of the graph embeddings API to the GraphFrames library. I will start with a top-level overview of the vertex representation lear...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Politicians love to talk about "kids safety" until you ask them to do something that would actually keep kids safe like fund housing, healthcare, education, outdoor spaces, arts programs, etc.

That's because most of them use "safety" as a euphemism for surveillance, control and domination.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
While it sounds so cool to "protect children" that people are missing one important thing. It kills privacy and anonymity. Platforms will ask for ID/passports. Very cool if the goal is to build a surveillance state and control what people are saying.
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament
MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.
www.europarl.europa.eu
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Interesting fact: #cycling with a trailer (~12 kg) with two babies (~8.5 kg each) feeling like a constant up hill with a grade about 2-3 degree.
August 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Weekend #cycling with the whole family, including the youngest adventurers!. On of the best cycling experience!
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Adventure time
August 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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sunset field
📷krzysztof kupren
#minimalism #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2roA35u
August 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Weekend paper time! One more attempt to read this paper before I give up again

August 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Guten Morgen Bluesky
August 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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WOW‼️ AMAZING‼️👏🤩🦉

📸 Credit: Ian Turner
August 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Pinzolo (Trento)
Panorama sulle Dolomiti del Brenta dal Lago Ritorto a Madonna di Campiglio
August 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
August 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It looks like the state surveillance and social scoring is from a very rare kind of questions, where the position of neo-libertarians meets the position of neo-liberals.

#privacy #surveillance #politics

english.elpais.com/internationa...
Javier Milei’s government will monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’
Argentina’s new Artificial Intelligence Unit Applied to Security will be tasked with surveillance in the real and virtual worlds. Experts warn about privacy violations
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August 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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August 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Probably the best photo of the Milky Way I've ever taken... that green airglow last night was amazing
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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New blog post: A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification.

The post defines what storage unification means, defines terminology and evaluates different building blocks and approaches to doing it.

jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/8/...
A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification — Jack Vanlightly
Object storage is taking over more of the data stack, but low-latency systems still need separate hot-data storage. Storage unification is about presenting these heterogeneous storage systems and form...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Street Art outside the Social Hub, Glasgow 07.2025

🎞️ Harman Phoenix 1
📷 Panorama Wide Pic

Still the same roll of film and same walk but a little further into the city now. Nice colours & contrast on Phoenix 1.

#toycamera #shittycamerachallenge #glasgow #35mm #believeinfilm #photography
August 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM