[HN Gopher] Myia: A new differentiable programming language
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       Myia: A new differentiable programming language
        
       Author : ofou
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-04-27 05:36 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | machinekob wrote:
       | Sadly its dead project
        
         | thechao wrote:
         | Maybe, next time, the authors could spend 10 minutes doing a
         | literature search? I did some work in this area in the early
         | 2000s and there are a _number_ of high-quality languages with
         | support for  "differentiability". While it can be challenging
         | in languages like C++/Python, it's trivial in most computer
         | algebra languages -- they already support (in their IR) the
         | concepts needed to implement AD (forward or reverse).
         | 
         | For those languages, even in the early 2000s, the real question
         | was how efficient they could be made -- not if they could be
         | made.
         | 
         | Honestly, these jokers at Google/wherever-the-fuck are just too
         | interested in their own navels to make any sort of useful
         | advances in science or engineering.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Hey, could you please make your substantive points without
           | putdowns and swipes? The latter are against the site
           | guidelines because they degrade discussion and evoke worse
           | from others - see
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your
           | comment would be fine without the first and last sentences.
           | 
           | If you know more than others, that's great - but in that
           | case, please share some of what you know so the rest of us
           | can learn, and drop the putdowns/swipes/name-calling. Then
           | you'll be adding interesting information without poisoning
           | the culture. Having a culture that doesn't poison itself is
           | part of the mandate of this site, and to have a hope of
           | achieving that, we need everyone to help.
           | 
           | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.
           | ..
           | 
           | For example, specifically which concepts are needed for AD
           | and how they appear in most computer algebra languages would
           | be an interesting thing to learn about.
        
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