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Meaning of autodifferentiation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. The automatic differentiation of a function by a computer.
    uncountable
  2. Automatic differentiation and specialization of cells; autonomous development.
    uncountable
  3. The differentiation of a whole into distinct parts; self-differentiation.
    uncountable

Examples

“The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule. Here's a simple example of autodifferentiation.”
“Spermatogenic cells appear to be incapable of autodifferentiation in an anhormonal environment.”
“Undifferentiated gonia undergo autodifferentiation to oocytes in the absence of any hormone.”
“The undifferentiated dorsal skin of the tail bud of a 9—10 day duck embryo, cultured on a natural medium containing embryo extract, underwent autodifferentiation to produce, within 8-10 days, the typical glandular invaginations (7).”
“Singh et al. (2013) reported that a coating of fibronectin (attachment protein) on SF/CE membrane exhibited enhanced adhesion and autodifferentiation of stem cells.”
“This relation and alterity of Jesus before the Father is understood as autodifferentiation, a key word of the German author's Trinitarian theology: 'Self-differentiating himself from the Father, submitting himself as his creature to his will and thus making it the place of his divinity, what is equally required of all of his predications on the Kingdom of God is precisely the manner in which Jesus shows himself as the Son of God, one with the Father who sent Him.'”
“Refusing the model of exclusion, that is, of an expulsion that produces an outside, Derrida holds that an 'original act' of severance, if it is not to imply a metaphysics of presence, can only be an autodifferentiation: 'a self-dividing action' 'interior to logos in general', to 'a logos that preceded the split of reason and madness, a logos which within itself permitted dialogue between what were later called reason and madness'.”
“Importantly, where intertextual approaches such as that offered by Rolls in this volume (in Chapter 7 below) trace the origins of the muted voice inside the host, or source, text's louder ones to another text, translation hears and renders audible, multiple origins in the one source. This is a particularly interesting form of autodifferentiation, one that is highly compatible with Baudelaire's ever-unsettled Paris.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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