Gensim switches to semantic versioning

Lev Konstantinovskiy gensim, Open Source

Starting with release 1.0.0, Gensim adopts semantic versioning. The time went in a flash, but Gensim has reached maturity. It's been cited in nearly 500 academic papers, used commercially in dozens of companies, organized many coding sprints and meetups and generally withstood the test of time. Between the continued Gensim support by our parent company, rare-technologies.com, and our open Student ...

Three Sprints in India (To Say Nothing of PyCon)

Lev Konstantinovskiy gensim, Open Source, PyCon, Student Incubator

I was very happy to visit India this October to run three Gensim coding sprints, give workshops and visit PyCon India conference. Many thanks to our Incubator programme student Devashish Deshpande for being my host. PyCon India Pycon India was a very friendly event of 500 attendees with workshops on Friday and conference talks over Saturday and Sunday. My favorite PyCon moment was the keynote …

Pycon 2016 and Gensim Sprint Recap

Lev Konstantinovskiy gensim, Machine Learning, PyCon 2 Comments

Our team was on site representing RaRe Technologies and Gensim at this year’s PyCon 2016 hosted in Portland, Oregon, from May 28th to June 5th. It was a packed, outright massive event of over 3000 attendees which included two days of focused tutorials, sponsor workshops and talks from some of the industry’s renowned experts. RaRe was a sponsor of the …