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.bold.center[Having access to the gradients can make the fit orders of magnitude faster than finite difference]

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# Enabling new tools with autodiff [TODO: CLARIFY]
# Moving towards differential workflows

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* Counting experiment for presence of signal process
* Place discriminate selection cut on observable $x$ to maximize significance $f(x)$
* Step along cut values in $x$ and calculate significance
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* Need differentiable analogue to non-differentiable cut
* Weight events using activation function of sigmoid

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* With a simple gradient descent algorithm can easily automate the significance optimization
* Allows for the "cut" to become a parameter that can be differentiated through for the larger analysis
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