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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/
At the end I'm analyzing scalability and performance. While Hash2vec embeddings are less performant than Word2vec, the algorithm is horizontal scalable and very cheap to compute. At the end I'm thinking how this approach (Random Walks + Random Projections) can be improved.
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In the next section I'm exploring ways to generate embeddings from sequence of walks. I'm analyzing why Spark' Word2vec is not a fit at that scale and what can be a alternative approach. I'm providing details about Random-Projections based algorithm Hash2vec I have chosen.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I'm reviewing existing approaches, including Random Walks based embeddings. I'm providing a scalable implementation for Spark/GraphFrames and discussing hacks and tradeoffs to avoid skew on executors and big shuffles across the network.
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How are you cycling without gloves in such a weather? It is cold even watching your ride :)
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I think you can even use it from vim. Looks like there is a basic support of the org-format: github.com/jceb/vim-org...

Cycling, navigation... Should be enough to start with orgnote + vim :)
GitHub - jceb/vim-orgmode: Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode
Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode - jceb/vim-orgmode
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
OrgMode is the perfect task manager. The story is I just don't need a task manager :)

org-roam is actually very-very simple to set up, org-roam-ui works out of the box. And orgnote (org-note.com) project can bring capabilities of Notion to org-roam (and under the GNU GPL ❤️).
OrgNote
OrgNote app. OrgNote is a note-taking app for organizing your thoughts and ideas. It is based on the emacs org-roam package and org-mode format.
org-note.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I use mostly org-roam (+org-roam-ui), not org for task management. And org-format for my blog (with Hugo that supports org). I personally find org-format much better compared to markdown. You can actually try to download something like spacemacs: with "evil-mode" it feels almost like vim.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It looks easier to type Alt+F instead of Esc + w + i, Alt+B instead of Esc + b + i, Ctrl + E instead of Esc + $ + i, etc.. So, emacs :)
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Children protection, fight drugs trafficking, anti money laundering, hate speech. As always there four horsemen.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Ho...
Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I think "The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, et al." is missing. As I remember it was the first one mentioned the separation of the compute and storage.
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I see it in the following way. The problem is not religion itself, but churches. Modern churches are full of hierarchy. At the same time, no religion require hierarchy by itself. That was invented and enforced by churches.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Another story is Islam. I read one article that Islam is very close to anarchism if we again start to study it from the first sources, not from modern prophets.
politicaltheology.com/islam-anarch...
Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances | Political Theology Network
Discourses around Muslims and Islām often lapse into a false dichotomy of Orientalist/Fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islām is desperately needed and anarchist political philosophical…
politicaltheology.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
They can. A good example is a christian anarchism of Leo Tolstoy. Man just reject all the church writings and started to study Christianity from first sources. He came to Christian anarchism.
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Borders of national states exists solely to benefit the national elites. But borders themselves are not the problem while national states are.
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The most of the wars were initiated to change this national states borders (actually borders of the "national markets"). The whole idea and the purpose of "nationalism" / "patriotism" is to give a "reason" to existence of national markets and these borders.
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I wouldn't say that "borderless" is the goal itself. There is nothing wrong with borders in general. The problem is with national states and their borders. National states were appeared as a product of capitalism with the main goal of "protecting the national market". And that is the problem imo.
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I was in Sarajevo twice, I love B&H modernist architecture from 70s! Hope to visit Japan one day, so looking forward
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I have no experience with Tuxedo, but have a lot with Ubuntu itself. The main pain is fragility of the system and broken updates. Especially if you are going to develop software. I would recommend to install something container-based andatomic, like Fedora Silverblue instead.
August 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM