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The Little Learner is a great book. I tried rewriting all the code in Python/JAX while following the Scheme code style as closely as possible, and it worked out
by 5kg 7mo ago
The Little Learner is a great book. I tried rewriting all the code in Python/JAX while following the Scheme code style as closely as possible, and it worked out great.
The appendix on autodiff is a bit rushed, in my opinion. But in all fairness, the number of pages would probably need to be doubled to give a proper exposition of autodiff.
- coffeemug 7mo agoYeah, it's the easiest way to get a beachhead in deep learning and then expand from there. I dislike their heavy use of currying, it's elegant in theory but bad error messages make it confusing and inconvenient in practice. But it's a small tradeoff for an otherwise excellent book.