Machine Learning in Elixir

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If you’ve dabbled a little in machine learning, you more than likely have heard of words like derivative, gradient, and automatic differentiation. All of these terms come from vector calculus.

Vector calculus is concerned with the differentiation and integration of vector fields or functions. If you’re not a math person, all of this probably sounds a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, you don’t need to have an intimate understanding of these concepts; you only need to be familiar with them. If you don’t get confused when somebody says “differentiable function,” you probably know enough calculus for machine learning. In this section, you’ll go through a bit of vocabulary and see how vector calculus relates to machine learning. Then ...