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Intro topic: Video Game Prices News/Links: • Step one: Jump in the Lava - Abyssoft • https://youtu.be/WdadpHLAfdA?si=oXYnhB0EdkR_RaPE • Scalable world models for continuous control • https://www.tdmpc2.com/ • Clever code is probably the worst code you could write - Engineer’s Codex • https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst • A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more • https://venturebeat.com/ai/a-new-open-source-text-to-speech-model-called-dia-has-arrived-to-challenge-elevenlabs-openai-and-more/ Book of the Show • Patrick • The Muscle Ladder - Jeff Nippard • https://amzn.to/44Dznsz • Jason • Metaphysics of War • https://amzn.to/4jMjvZ5 Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show • Patrick • Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket • Jason • Phi-4 • https://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/phi-4-multimodal Topic: Memory Management • Motivation • Avoid thrashing / crashes • Allocate resources efficiently • Keep high uptime • Where • OS Level • Heap management • Virtual Memory • Language/Compiler Level • Cpp • Garbage collection • Ownership • Tools • Instrumentation • Export to Datadog / Grafana • Python: psutil & tracemalloc • Valgrind • What to do when your program uses too much memory? • Reduce data sizes • Compression • References • Lazy initializer • Generators & Back Pressure • Ring buffers • Arena allocators • Disk based caching ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown)