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# datasciencet
thomasnield
10/22/2018, 3:03 AMe
elizarov
10/22/2018, 7:30 AMI don’t see how we need any language features for that. AD is just a library. There are AD libs even for Java. In Kotlin you can do a nice DSL for AD with blackjack and hookers operators overloading.
elizarov
10/22/2018, 7:30 AM(correct me if I’m wrong, please)
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thomasnield
10/22/2018, 10:56 AMYeah sure this has been done at a library level before (or highly specialized languages), but in my mind it seems AD at the compiler level would be valuable. I sometimes find myself wishing I could just tell the compiler "take this loss function expressed in pure Kotlin and derive it with respect to x". For long nasty summations especially this would be nice.
Admittedly I need to explore this more though, and you might be right. I don't know what the implications would be in terms of scope and implementation.
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