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Differentiable Programming from Scratch

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108 points sksxihve | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 04:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.455s | source
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FilosofumRex ◴[17 Apr 25 10:14 UTC] No.43714883[source]▶
Historical fact: Differentiable programming was a little known secret back in the 90's, used mainly by engineers simulating numerically stiff systems like nukes and chemicals in FORTRAN 95. It then disappeared for nearly 30 yrs before rediscovery by the ML/AI researchers!
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1. constantcrying ◴[17 Apr 25 14:58 UTC] No.43717879[source]▶
It wasn't forgotten, I learned it in university outside of any AI context. It just had most of its applications exhausted and ceased being a particularly active research topic.