Julia 1.7 Highlights
I'm really excited about Julia 1.8 and diffractor:
<a href="https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Diffractor.jl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Diffractor.jl</a><p>Keno Fisher did a presentation in a discussion moderated by Simon Peyton Jones here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnSRfseu0c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnSRfseu0c</a><p>Also combined with enzyme which can differentiate through static paths at the llvm bitcode level:
<a href="https://enzyme.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow">https://enzyme.mit.edu/</a><p>I wonder what this will enable at the frontier of what is computationally tractable in the combo of physics + ml.