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This assumes a little too much about how automatic differentiation would work.



Based on the rest of your comments, I'm not sure you know that automatic differentiation is a well established technique that is 40+ years old.


Based on your comment, I'm not sure you know that dual numbers, the foundation of autodiff, is 150+ years old.


> This assumes a little too much about how automatic differentiation would work.

The use of 'would' implies that automatic differentiation has not been established. Also, if something is 40+ years old, then it follows that its foundation is even older.


I meant automatic integration.




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