There's always a particular brand of woo on display in threads like this that irks me to my core - like someone arriving at show and tell but really they don't

There's always a particular brand of woo on display in threads like this that irks me to my core - like someone arriving at show and tell but really they don't know enough to tell. >I cannot stress enough how foundational of an idea it is to store mathematical expressions as graphs... one of the cornerstones of most AI methods. Firstly what are AI methods? That's pretty vague huh? Secondly you're just saying that expression trees are useful. Ok? I mean this was known since like the days of... Church? > Before this was invented, people had to manually find expressions for these derivatives, and implement the code to compute them. There were (and still are) lots of AD systems and not all of them use a wengert tape. https://www.autodiff.org/?module=Tools&language=ALL https://www.autodiff.org/?module=Tools&language=ALL Anyway it's just software (and not even particularly clever software), not the second coming lol.