Huh, interesting. First time I read this comment, it said something like "why should I care what you think?" I guess the edit indicates that you do care?
Re:Differentiation for Hackers
by adamnemecek on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:34PM
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No, I edited it because HN has reached out to me many times before that I need to be less of an asshole or I'll get banned.
So no, I don't care about what you think, but I don't want to get banned.
Anyway, nice that you read the first version but still didn't respond to the other questions.
It does mean that. Pls see the overview paper http://jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-468/17-468.pdf in particular section "2.1 AD Is Not Numerical Differentiation"
> substantial arguments to people that try to temper the breathlessness
Which arguments in particular?
> our comments regarding math and science always give me the distinct impression that you know the name of a lot of things without knowing much about the thing.
Ok be more specific, which ones do you care about? Maybe I don't always have time to answer everyone.
> some universal concept of duality
It's the concept of adjointness. And yes, it's very universal.