The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation [pdf] (conal.net)
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infogulch Nov 20, 2018 | on: Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey… | context

Another paper related to AD was posted last month: The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation [0]. Video presentation [1]. I found it pretty awesome, just in case you hadn't seen it.

[0]: https//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18306860

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne99laPUxN4

afraca Oct 27, 2018 | on: Compiling to Categories (2017) [video] | context

Conal Elliot was new to me, and he has great material! To cycle back to a recent good post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18306860

(comments there had this video posted as well)