In fact, if the author had actually read Mikolov's w2v NIPS paper (nb, not the arXiv blog posts!) he would have found interesting, insightfull, and, particularl

In fact, if the author had actually read Mikolov's w2v NIPS paper (nb, not the arXiv blog posts!) he would have found interesting, insightfull, and, particularly, sound arguments when neutral embeddings work better than count-based PMI - and, when not! As with everything in the world, it's not black-and-white...