Agreed. I actually think the SVD algorithm as it is implemented in most software packages is more complicated than the word2vec algorithm, which is actually qui

Agreed. I actually think the SVD algorithm as it is implemented in most software packages is more complicated than the word2vec algorithm, which is actually quite simple. Also, Glove (which is one of the newer word2vec alternatives you mentioned) works pretty similar to the approach in the blog post, but has some tweaks that make it perform better than this.