184: Asynchronous Programming Intro topic: AI Scams News/Links: <ul><li>Coding Adventure: Ray-Tracing Glass and Caustics (Sebastian Lague)<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1KVZ1eOuA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1KVZ1eOuA</a></li></ul></li><li>Boson AI announces Higgs Audio V2<ul><li><a href="https://www.boson.ai/technologies/voice">https://www.boson.ai/technologies/voice</a> </li></ul></li><li>The Misconception that Almost Stopped AI [How Models Learn Part 1] (Welch Labs)<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO20Jb-hy0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO20Jb-hy0</a></li></ul></li><li>A mind-bending conversation with Peter Thiel<ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/podcasts/interesting-times-a-mind-bending-conversation-with-peter-thiel.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/podcasts/interesting-times-a-mind-bending-conversation-with-peter-thiel.html </a> </li></ul></li></ul>Book of the Show<ul><li>Patrick<ul><li>The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)<ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4mevuzE">https://amzn.to/4mevuzE</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Jason<ul><li>NYT Word Games</li></ul></li></ul> Patreon Plug <a href="https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h">https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h</a> Tool of the Show<ul><li>Patrick<ul><li>Escape Academy<ul><li><a href="https://escapeacademygame.com/en">https://escapeacademygame.com/en</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Jason<ul><li>Multi-modal LLMs to make calendar meetings<ul><li><a href="http://www.chatgpt.com">www.chatgpt.com </a> </li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> Topic: Asynchronous Computing <ul><li>What/Why<ul><li>Multi-threading in between the lines</li><li>Many of the benefits of multiprocessing without the overhead/complexity</li></ul></li><li>How<ul><li>Coroutines</li><li>Thread-Local Memory</li><li>Blocking vs Non-Blocking operations<ul><li>Blocking: arithmetic</li><li>Non-Blocking: Reading from the network card into thread-local memory</li></ul></li><li>Interpreter locking<ul><li>Typescript: Single threaded</li><li>Python: GIL</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Implementations<ul><li>Polling (not-Asynchronous)</li><li>Callbacks (interrupts)</li><li>Multithreading (with queues/message passing)</li><li>Promise/Futures</li><li>Async/Await </li></ul></li></ul>

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