184: Asynchronous Programming

184: Asynchronous ProgrammingIntro topic: AI ScamsNews/Links:Coding Adventure: Ray-Tracing Glass and Caustics (Sebastian Lague)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1KVZ1eOuABoson AI announces Higgs Audio V2https://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-hy0A mind-bending conversation with Peter Thielhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/podcasts/interesting-times-a-mind-bending-conversation-with-peter-thiel.htmlBook of the ShowPatrickThe Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)https://amzn.to/4mevuzEJasonNYT Word GamesPatreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=hTool of the ShowPatrickEscape Academyhttps://escapeacademygame.com/enJasonMulti-modal LLMs to make calendar meetingswww.chatgpt.comTopic: Asynchronous ComputingWhat/WhyMulti-threading in between the linesMany of the benefits of multiprocessing without the overhead/complexityHowCoroutinesThread-Local MemoryBlocking vs Non-Blocking operationsBlocking: arithmeticNon-Blocking: Reading from the network card into thread-local memoryInterpreter lockingTypescript: Single threadedPython: GILImplementationsPolling (not-Asynchronous)Callbacks (interrupts)Multithreading (with queues/message passing)Promise/FuturesAsync/Await

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Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

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**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

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