Notes concerning “Automatic differentiation”

• More thoughts on powerful primitives for simplified computer systems architecture 2015-08-18 (updated 2015-11-02) (165 minutes)
• Affine arithmetic has quadratic convergence when interval arithmetic has linear convergence 2016-08-24 (updated 2017-01-18) (10 minutes)
• $1 recognizer diagrams 2019-08-11 (updated 2019-10-24) (15 minutes)
• Robust local search in vector spaces using adaptive step sizes, and thoughts on extending quasi-Newton methods 2019-08-17 (updated 2019-09-15) (15 minutes)
• Fast mathematical optimization with affine arithmetic 2019-09-15 (5 minutes)
• Some thoughts on SDF raymarching 2019-11-11 (updated 2019-12-10) (31 minutes)