Changelog of @hackage/backprop 0.1.0.0

Changelog

Feb 5, 2018

First non-alpha release.
More or less complete redesign of library. The entire API is completely changed, and there is no backwards compatibility!
- Everything is now "implicit" style, and there is no more BP monad.
- Accessing items in BVars is now lens-, prism-, and traversal- based, instead of iso- and generics-based.
- Op is no longer monadic
- Mono modules are removed.
- Implicit modules are removed, since they are the default
- Iso module is removed, since Isos no longer play major role in the implementation of the library.
Removed dependency on ad and ad-based ops, which had been pulling in the vast majority of dependencies.
Moved from .cabal file to hpack system.

Alpha

Removed samples as registered executables in the cabal file, to reduce dependences to a bare minimum. For convenience, build script now also compiles the samples into the local directory if stack is installed.
Added experimental (unsafe) combinators for working with GADTs with existential types, withGADT, to Numeric.Backprop module.
Fixed broken links in changelog.

Alpha

Added optimized numeric Ops, and re-write Num/Fractional/Floating instances in terms of them.
Removed all traces of Summer/Unity from the library, eliminating a whole swath of "explicit-Summer"/"explicit-Unity" versions of functions. As a consequence, the library now only works with Num instances. The API, however, is now much more simple.
Benchmark suite added for MNIST example.

Alpha

Initial pre-release, as a request for comments. API is in a usable form and everything is fully documented, but there are definitely some things left to be done. (See README.md)