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alex buzunov

@alexbuzunov

articles: 32
total claps: 3,376
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paywalled: 32
active: 2019-11-16 → 2026-07-13

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#ukraine-war ·9 #russia ·6 #russia-ukraine-war ·5 #putin ·5 #geopolitics ·5 #llm ·5 #python ·4 #russian-politics ·3 #ukraine ·3 #zelensky ·3

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Hungary Will Attack Ukraine and Trigger NATO’s Article 5

Or: How to Turn a Pipeline Into an Election Strategy

Mar 21, 2026 · 3 min read · 658 claps paywalled #hungary #viktor-orban #russia

Hungary Will Attack Ukraine and Trigger NATO’s Article 5

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The Rat Is Trapped: Europe’s Tribunal Closes In on Putin

As the special tribunal for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine takes legal shape, Moscow’s propaganda machine is starting to sound less…

May 15, 2026 · 7 min read · 350 claps paywalled #ukraine-war #putin-tribunal #russian-aggression

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Ukraine War: Consolidated Intelligence Assessment (As of June 23, 2026)

A Personal Note to Readers

Jun 23, 2026 · 18 min read · 344 claps paywalled #ukraine-war #osint #military-analysis

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The Ukrainian Guide to NATO Diplomacy: First Get Bombed, Then Apologize

For an ordinary Ukrainian, the recent Russian drone incident in Romania is not difficult to understand at the level of basic…

May 29, 2026 · 5 min read · 283 claps paywalled #romania #ukraine-war #russian-aggression

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Akela Has Missed — And the Kremlin Jackals Know It

In The Jungle Book, there is a moment that Russian-speaking readers remember as a sentence that sounds almost like a verdict: «Акела…

Jun 08, 2026 · 5 min read · 272 claps paywalled #ukraine-war #russia #putin

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Putin’s Vasnetsov Moment: A Broken-Down Nag and the Road to Stalinism

At the prophetic stone, the Kremlin’s fake hero discovers that every road is bad — and the economy beneath him can barely stand.

May 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 226 claps paywalled #putin #russia-ukraine-war #ukraine-war

Putin’s Vasnetsov Moment: A Broken-Down Nag and the Road to Stalinism

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The Human Cost of a Drying Pipeline: Russia’s Desperate Recruitment Crisis in Year Four of the War

Inside Moscow’s contract-recruitment pipeline, the numbers are falling, the screening is loosening, and “voluntary” is increasingly a…

Jan 25, 2026 · 4 min read · 214 claps paywalled #ukraine-war #russian-ukraine-war #geopolitics

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Putin’s Pigeons: The Ultimate Low-Tech Triumph in High-Tech Warfare

In a stroke of genius that can only be described as “avian asymmetry,” the Russian Federation has unveiled the PJN-1 Bio-Drone —…

Feb 13, 2026 · 4 min read · 190 claps paywalled #neurotech #russia-ukraine-war #pigeons

Putin’s Pigeons: The Ultimate Low-Tech Triumph in High-Tech Warfare

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Poland’s Stunning Double Standard: Fascist Mussolini Awarded Poland’s Highest Honor.

The man who marched on Rome and stood at Hitler’s side keeps his medal. The president of a nation bleeding to stop a Russian empire had his…

Jun 20, 2026 · 5 min read · 160 claps paywalled #ukraine-war #zelensky #karol-nawrocki

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The End of “Easy” Globalization — and the New Order Replacing It

For ~80 years, global trade ran on a simple bargain: the U.S. underwrote security and the dollar system; others specialized. That bargain…

Jan 30, 2026 · 6 min read · 156 claps paywalled #globalization #multipolarity #new-world-order

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Dance, Putin, Dance: You’ve Got a Letter

Zelenskyy’s open letter turned an old Soviet ritual into geopolitical theater.

Jun 06, 2026 · 3 min read · 134 claps paywalled #ukraine #zelensky #putin

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MAX in Russia: The Messenger That Wants to Think for You

If a chat app signs you up for propaganda you never asked to see — and won’t let you leave — it is not a messenger. It is a political…

Mar 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 70 claps paywalled #russia #russian-propaganda #russia-ukraine-war

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Is Ilya Remeslo Related to Putin Himself?

It is an irresistible theory: a man suddenly appears, criticizes Putin in ways that should be professionally fatal, gets pushed into a…

Jun 05, 2026 · 2 min read · 66 claps paywalled #russian-politics #ukraine-war #putin

AL alex buzunov · GoPenAI

Starting with Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Locally and using HuggingFace Inference Endpoint

Introduction

Sep 23, 2024 · 4 min read · 56 claps paywalled #qwen-2 #lll #transformers

Starting with Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Locally and using HuggingFace Inference Endpoint

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The Book of Shadows: How We Taught a Spirit to Read the Language of the Dead

Podcast

Nov 18, 2025 · 13 min read · 50 claps paywalled #necromancy #halloween #halloween-stories

The Book of Shadows: How We Taught a Spirit to Read the Language of the Dead

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Five Lenses I Didn’t Mean to Love This Much

I’ve been living with a small handful of older lenses that keep surprising me — not with perfection, but with personality. Ranked from…

Dec 15, 2025 · 10 min read · 50 claps paywalled #nikkor #photographer #photography-tips

Five Lenses I Didn’t Mean to Love This Much

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The Graveyard Shift: Lessons from Teaching an AI to Speak with the Dead

The Séance Nobody Expected

Nov 16, 2025 · 9 min read · 50 claps paywalled #llm-applications #genai #gen-ai-tools

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💙💛🙏Їхнє «свято» — наша ненависть. І нехай горить їм пекло в кишках

Друзі.

Jan 09, 2026 · 2 min read · 16 claps paywalled #україна #війна-в-україні #росія

💙💛🙏Їхнє «свято» — наша ненависть. І нехай горить їм пекло в кишках

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Sentence-Transformers (SBERT) vs Cross-Encoders: A Conceptual Guide

Machine learning models like BERT can compare two sentences by processing them together — a “cross-encoder” approach — but this becomes…

May 04, 2025 · 22 min read · 15 claps paywalled #splade #bert #llm

Sentence-Transformers (SBERT) vs Cross-Encoders: A Conceptual Guide

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AL alex buzunov · CodeX

AWS Data Pipeline browser using wxPython.

This art is example of solving new problems with old tools.

Dec 22, 2021 · 1 min read · 4 claps paywalled #python #wxpython #aws

AWS Data Pipeline browser using wxPython.

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What is the difference between storage (S3) and database (DynamoDB) on AWS?

Both S3 and DynamoDB are regional resources.

Nov 16, 2019 · 1 min read · 4 claps paywalled #aws #dynamodb #aws-s3

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AL alex buzunov · GoPenAI

Starting with Voice Transcription Using Vosk

In a current project, I need to transcribe real-time audio streams directly from a microphone. Vosk emerged as a powerful solution for this…

Oct 25, 2024 · 3 min read · 3 claps paywalled #vosk #ai-transcription #python

Starting with Voice Transcription Using Vosk

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AL alex buzunov · Python in Plain English

Secure Python socket with ngrok

Usage

Nov 22, 2021 · 1 min read · 3 claps paywalled #python #ngrok #nat

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Was Lindsey Graham Iran’s First Target?

The Iran–Russia Shadow Hanging Over Trump

Jul 13, 2026 · 11 min read · 1 claps paywalled #lindsey-graham #donald-trump #iran

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AL alex buzunov · CodeX

Starting with LlamaIndex for NLP Evaluations: From Data to Questions

In this blog, we’ll walk through the process of using LlamaIndex to generate a list of questions about your data, which is invaluable for…

Sep 24, 2024 · 7 min read · 1 claps paywalled #llamaindex #python #spacy