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ForwardDiff.jl
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ForwardDiff.jl

Forward Mode Automatic Differentiation for Julia

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What it is

Forward Mode Automatic Differentiation for Julia

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-02-21 17:57:30 UTC to 2024-03-23 02:12:25 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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one-more-minute·Feb 21, 2017
Check out ForwardDiff.jl [1], which is a really impressive implementation of this exact idea. The technique gets pretty magical results; you can apply it to any function, complete with loops, linalg etc, and it will compute a derivative with something like 10% overhead. The standard approach is finite differencing, which involves many-times overhead, isn't exact, and can easily blow up for common pathological cases like step functions. Fede_V's points about the drawbacks of the technique are valid in C++, but Julia's duck-typing makes being generic the default (including in the standard library). ForwardDiff works out of the box, for free, in a huge number of cases. [1] https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ForwardDiff.jl
In Dual Numbers and Automatic Differentiation (2014)

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