Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
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Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
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Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#2I'm really excited for this. I'm unaware of any mainstream language with first class support for differentiation, I think its going to be really interesting to see what people use it for out side of ML.
Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#3I'm really excited for this. I'm unaware of any mainstream language with first class support for differentiation, I think its going to be really interesting to see what people use it for out side of ML.
Julia is in the same space.
Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#4Well done Swift. Insightful language design.
Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#5This is actually huge. I saw a proof of concept of something like this in Haskell a few years back, but it's amazing it see it (probably) making it into the core of a mainstream language.
This may let them capture a large chunk of the ML market from Python - and hopefully greatly improve ML apis while they're at it.
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#6Now do automatic integration.
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#7How does this relate to all the work that Christ Lattner et al have been doing at Google with Swift, MLIR, etc.?[a]
Is this... a separate, parallel, more encompassing proposal?
Is there any coordination between these two groups?
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Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#8This is actually huge. I saw a proof of concept of something like this in Haskell a few years back, but it's amazing it see it (probably) making it into the core of a mainstream language. This may let them capture a large chunk of the ML market from Python - and hopefully greatly improve ML apis while they're at it.
> I saw a proof of concept of something like this in Haskell a few years back
You mean the automatic differentiation package `ad`?
Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#9How does this relate to all the work that Christ Lattner et al have been doing at Google with Swift, MLIR, etc.?[a] Is this... a separate, parallel, more encompassing proposal? Is there any coordination between these two groups? -- [a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8
It's the same group.
Re: Differentiable Programming Mega-Proposal
#10This is super exciting