Thanks, these posts are the only thing I've read that have made sense to me thus far (probably because they mostly confirm my suspicion, that there's not really a strong distinction between 'symbolic' and 'automatic'…
> In contrast, symbolic differentiation instead would be to evaluate the entire program in terms of symbolic variables to produce a final expression for your quantity of interest as a function of the inputs, then…
> Put another way, when people say they're using symbolic or automatic differentiation to "calculate" the derivative of a function, "calculate" means different things: in the one, they're "calculating" the exact,…
Can someone further clarify the distinction between automatic and symbolic differentiation? The author claims that using symbolic differentiation on his example (f(x)=sin(x+sin(x+...+sin(x+sin(x))...))) builds a "huge…
Thanks, these posts are the only thing I've read that have made sense to me thus far (probably because they mostly confirm my suspicion, that there's not really a strong distinction between 'symbolic' and 'automatic'…
> In contrast, symbolic differentiation instead would be to evaluate the entire program in terms of symbolic variables to produce a final expression for your quantity of interest as a function of the inputs, then…
> Put another way, when people say they're using symbolic or automatic differentiation to "calculate" the derivative of a function, "calculate" means different things: in the one, they're "calculating" the exact,…
Can someone further clarify the distinction between automatic and symbolic differentiation? The author claims that using symbolic differentiation on his example (f(x)=sin(x+sin(x+...+sin(x+sin(x))...))) builds a "huge…