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) https://amzn.to/4mevuzE Jason NYT Word Games Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show Patrick Escape Academy https://escapeacademygame.com/en 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 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★