{"id":6638,"date":"2025-12-31T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:53:50","slug":"popular-posts-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/popular-posts-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Most popular posts \u2013 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of 2025. Depending on where you\u2019re reading this, the party might have already begun. I begin this end-of-year post by wishing you a safe and fun time tonight. <\/p>\n<p>This blog is just a personal hobby. When I&#8217;m extra busy as I was this year the blog is a front-line casualty. This is why 2025 saw a weaker posting stream. As I do almost each year, I checked the analytics stats to see what generated the most interest. I am pleased with around 13K (active) visits this year, an average of 37 seconds spent per visit (when the browser-tab is in the foreground and active). Given our collective TikTok-wired brains, I consider those 37 seconds as a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>The two most popular posts this year were also coincidentally the two pieces I most enjoyed creating. Both dive into the all-important world of word-embedding:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe one is <a href=\"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/understanding-word-embeddings-1-algebra\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding Word Embeddings (1) \u2013 Algebra<\/a> and the other is <a href=\"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/understanding-word-embeddings-2-geometry\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding Word Embeddings (2) \u2013 Geometry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the left (scroll down) you can find the most popular posts from previous years. <\/p>\n<p style=\"border-bottom:3px solid #40FF00; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p><font size=\"3\"> To my readership. <strong>Thank you<\/strong> for reading, sharing, for your emails, corrections, comments and good questions. Happy, <strong>healthy<\/strong>, and productive 2026!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thanks2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/thanks2-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5911\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<center> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -120px\"> pic credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/GiUJ02Yj_io\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Morvanic Lee<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-bottom:2px solid #40FF00; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup\"><form action=\"https:\/\/eranraviv.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=3890dd9667df0f24c588c91a7&amp;id=2b83e921d9\" method=\"post\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" target=\"_blank\" novalidate><div id=\"mc_embed_signup_scroll\"><div><label id=\"mc-embed-label\" for=\"mce-EMAIL\">Subscribe for future posts (no spam)<\/label><\/div><input type=\"email\" name=\"EMAIL\" class=\"email\" id=\"mceEMAIL\" onkeyup=\"manage(this)\" placeholder=\"email address\" required><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-5000px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><input name=\"b_3890dd9667df0f24c588c91a7_2b83e921d9\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" name=\"subscribe\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"button\" disabled><\/div><\/div><\/form><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of 2025. Depending on where you\u2019re reading this, the party might have already begun. I begin this end-of-year post by wishing you a safe and fun time tonight. This blog is just a personal hobby. When I&#8217;m extra busy as I was this year the blog is a front-line casualty&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,8,12],"tags":[44,26,29],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-miscellaneous","category-r","category-statistics-and-econometrics-blog","tag-miscellaneous","tag-popular","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eranraviv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}