Nice work jalammar! Author of gensim here. Quotes from Dune are always appreciated :-)

Here's some more layman reading "from back when", for people interested in how word2vec compares to other methods and works technically:

- https://rare-technologies.com/making-sense-of-word2vec/ (my experiments with word2vec vs GloVe vs sparse SVD / PMI)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU4TlwZzTfU&t=3s (my PyData talk on optimizing word2vec)