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Comment by IngoBlechschmid

Automatic differentiation feels magical.

Many compsci people have been captivated by it and wrote introductions, trying to put the technique into a wider perspective. Here is mine, including a "poor man's variant" of automatic differentiation which does without operator overloading, but uses complex numbers instead:

https://pizzaseminar.speicherleck.de/automatic-differentiati...

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