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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by stormtroper1721 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:01AM (#22823182)
> can be implemented in a lazy afternoon

Hi, I'm working on making a tensor lib in Rust (think numpy + autodiff) to learn about these topics. There isn't much information online about how projects like numpy and autograd work under the hood.

Do you have any ideas/tips/resources about how it could be done?

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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by scottlocklin on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:15PM (#22823976)
Numpy is basically lapack. You'd be hard pressed to replace that with something nearing its performance. For autodiff, I dunno, how about John Mount's explanation?

http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/06/automatic-differentia...

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