184: Asynchronous Programming

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