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I really enjoyed the section on symbolic data in SICP https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/2-3-symbolic.html https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/2-3-symbolic.html - gi
by formalsystem 8y ago
I really enjoyed the section on symbolic data in SICP https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/2-3-symbolic.html https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/2-3-symbolic.html - gives lots of good insight to start thinking about how automatic differentiation is implemented in the deep learning libraries.
- twtw 8y agoFWIW, automatic differentiation (as used in popular machine learning frameworks) is not the same thing as the symbolic differentiation described in that section.