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47: Executable textbooks with Sam Ritchie

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What Is SICKIM UTILS?

SICKIM UTILS is a closure port of the library that Gerald Sussman has been building up in scheme since maybe the late 80s. It runs equally well in the browser and JavaScript and on the JVM. All of it is built around this idea of basically every mathematical operation in the library is based effectively on multi methods. So I can go add numbers, but I can teach the library to go add vectors or add matrices or things like this. But all of the ideas there are really the same ideas you get when you do automatic differentiation inside of a matrix library to power machine learning models.

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