http://programmer.ie/tags/differentiable-programming/ Recent content in Differentiable Programming on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:31:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/cellular-automata-from-first-principles-36/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:31:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/cellular-automata-from-first-principles-36/ <h1 id="cellular-automata-from-first-principles-36-make-the-automaton-differentiable">Cellular Automata From First Principles 36: Make the Automaton Differentiable</h1> <p>So far every rule in this book has been chosen by us.</p> <p>Even Lenia still asks us to decide the neighborhood kernel, the growth function and the parameters that connect them.</p> <p>What if we stop designing the local rule directly?</p> <p>What if we define only the <strong>goal</strong>, then let gradient descent discover a local update rule that achieves it?</p> <p>That requires one major change:</p>