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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>The simple essence of automatic differentiation · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1804.00746/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1804.00746/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>The simple essence of automatic differentiation — mentioned by sriku</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32892496</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1804.00746:32892496</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 23:38:18 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00746&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1804.00746/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.PL</category></item><item><title>The simple essence of automatic differentiation — mentioned by dangirsh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25439265</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1804.00746:25439265</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:02:56 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Related: The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne99laPUxN4 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00746&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1804.00746/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.PL</category></item><item><title>The simple essence of automatic differentiation — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345320</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1804.00746:22345320</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:17:00 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;The simple essence of automatic differentiation – Conal Elliott (2018)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1804.00746/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.PL</category></item><item><title>The simple essence of automatic differentiation — mentioned by Myrmornis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18596938</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1804.00746:18596938</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:48:28 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Meanwhile, the idea of ML models fundamentally being differentiable algorithms – often called differentiable programming – has caught on. &amp;gt; We need a language to write differentiable algorithms, and Flux takes Julia to be this language. Recently on HN there was some discussion of this paper by Conal Elliott on automatic differentiation in a pure functional language (Haskell): https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00746 This is a rather large and vague question but I&amp;#x27;m curious whether people have comments on the relative merits of Julia vs a pure functional language for supporting &amp;quot;differentiable…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1804.00746/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.PL</category></item></channel></rss>
