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A comment on Interactive SICP.

Re:Interactive SICP by formalsystem on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:16PM (#19051028)
I really enjoyed the section on symbolic data in SICP 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.
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Re:Interactive SICP by twtw on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:12PM (#19051267)
FWIW, automatic differentiation (as used in popular machine learning frameworks) is not the same thing as the symbolic differentiation described in that section.
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