Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17
About the Book
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics and Observability Institute and Software Diagnostics Library about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2024 to 14 November 2025 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support, DevOps and DevSecOps, escalation and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts, data science and ML/AI researchers and engineers. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 – 16:
Compared to Volume 16, Volume 17 features:
- 6 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 11 new software trace and log analysis patterns
- Introduction to pattern-oriented observability
- Introduction to software morphology
- Introduction to geometric theory of traces and logs
- Introduction to pattern-oriented intelligence and AI
- Introduction to agentic narratology and workflow diagnostic pattern language
- Introduction to algebra of prompting and context management pattern language
- Logics of memory dump and trace analysis
- Introduction to pattern-oriented system logic
- Introduction to ontological diagnostics
- Machine learning as memory dump analysis
- The stomach metaphor for AI and pattern metabolism
- OS internals and category theory
- Introduction to pattern category theory
- Meta-diagnostic and categorical unification of software diagnostics and digital pathology
- A Lego model as an autoencoder and Lego disassembly as tokenization
- Memoidealism as a post-computational philosophy of AI
- Lists of recommended books
The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, technical support, escalation, site reliability, and cloud engineers dealing with complex software issues, DevOps and DevSecOps, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts, data scientists and ML/AI researchers and engineers.
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Table of Contents
Preface 9
About the Author 10
PART 1: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns 11
Not My Version (Linux) 11
Function Pointer (Linux) 12
Missing Thread (Kernel Space) 13
Interrupt Stack Collection 15
DPC Stack Collection 18
Dump Context 26
PART 2: Software Trace Analysis Patterns 27
Feynman Trace 27
Trace Sketch 29
Trace Model 30
Message Type 32
Implicit Message 33
Trace Parameters and Hyperparameters 34
Trace Precision and Recall 36
Trace Polynomial 38
Trace Embedding 39
Trace Context 40
Trace Plan 41
PART 3: Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Debugging 43
Declarative Memory 43
Biographies of Software 45
Situational Awareness in Pattern-Oriented Software Diagnostics, Forensics, Prognostics 46
OS Internals and Category Theory 49
From Software Diagnostics to Digital Pathology 50
Logic of Pattern-Oriented Memory Dump Analysis 51
Logic of Pattern-Oriented Trace and Log Analysis 52
Pattern-Oriented System Logic 53
Ontological Diagnostics 54
Geometric Theory of Traces and Logs 55
Traces and Logs as Pseudocode 56
Reversing Traces and Logs and Generating Source Code 57
Introducing Software Morphology 61
PART 4: Pattern-Oriented Observability 65
The Base Slab and Foundation of Observability Pillars 65
Semiotics of Memory, Trace, and Log Analysis 67
Observation Spaces 69
Diagnostics – Observability Square (DOS) 72
Books about Observability 75
PART 5: Pattern-Oriented AI 77
Definition 77
Pattern-Oriented LLM Context Management 78
Context Management Pattern Language 81
Agentic Workflow Diagnostic Pattern Language 85
Algebra of Prompting and Conversation with LLMs 86
Software and Cloud Internals Analogies to LLMs and Agentic AI Systems 87
Agentic Narratology 88
Memoidealism as a Post-computational Philosophy of AI 89
Introducing Pattern Metabolism 90
The Stomach Metaphor for AI 92
Pattern-Oriented Intelligence (POI) and WinDbg 94
Pattern Category Theory 96
Machine Learning as Memory Dump Analysis 98
PART 6: Fun with Debugging, Crash Dumps, and Traces 101
Diagnostics and Debugging in Science Fiction 101
Debugging Slang 102
MAIN PAIN 102
SF 102
Peasant 102
Orgasm 102
LLM 102
POETIC 103
POETRY 103
Debugging Food 104
We are Bugs 104
DAMn IT 104
Can AI be Sick? 105
The Good Software Bugs 106
Three Categories of Time 107
Uncountable 108
Esenin and Debugging 109
It's Overloaded. I'm Overwhelmed 110
Less Exceptional C++ 111
Superstitions and Software Diagnostics 112
Questioning Error Message 113
Ireland's Most Prolific IT Book Author 113
Vostorg 114
ParadoxDbg 115
LLMous 116
Forensic Analysis 119
Gulliver’s Travels in Cyberspace and AI Land 120
AI Body Sickness 121
Halloween Influence 122
Pseudo-Scientific Abstract 123
PART 7: Art and Photography 125
Diagnostician’s Delights 125
Where Do You Want to Go Today? 126
Layers 127
COFFee 127
π 129
Picture of Myself 130
Work Environment 132
Impossible at Vikings’ Time 133
Russian History Underflow and Overflow 134
Kazimir Malevich's Art 136
Yet Another Mind Model 137
From Bears to Sheep in 2001 138
It Got My Attention 139
PART 8: Miscellaneous 141
Quotes 141
My Favorite Category Theory Books (Continuation) 143
Books That Influenced Me 162
Data Science, AI, ML Books 174
Logic Books 192
Quantum Books 194
Weekly IT (WIT) Books 196
Other Books 207
When I was a Book Reviewer 246
The Book That Inspired Me to Science 248
Reflections on 2024 249
Linear Computers 250
My First Programming Language 251
URSS Principle 251
Treasure Box 252
Irish Public Libraries 253
InTouch 254
First English Fiction Book 255
My First Published Books 256
AI Big Bang 257
Software Surgery 258
Citrix, Karlsruhe, Germany 259
One Hundred Years of Mausoleum 260
Cats and Rabbits 261
A Software Engineer Reborn 262
My Old Reading Friend 264
Book Collections as Categories: Another Reminder 265
The First Book from Amazon 266
7 Books on a Train 267
The Selfish Genius 274
Debugged! MZ/PE Covers 275
The Post-structure of Scientific Revolutions 285
Promotion Stack 2003 – 2008 286
Propis’ Manual 287
Handwritten Timestamp 290
Memory Visualization 291
Metabooks 295
Original Inception of MemOS 296
Memory Dump Analysis Services Anniversary 297
Debugging Press 298
Semantics and Vector Semantics 299
Attention to Books 300
Book Summaries 301
AI, 1993 302
Speaking Mouse 303
Selected Conversations with ChatGPT 304
Marr and the Universal Language of Embeddings 304
Fourier Analysis for Vibe Coding with Example Vibe Spectra 304
Classical Marxism and GenAI 304
Precision and Recall and Category Theory 304
A Lego Model as An Autoencoder 305
Lego Disassembly as Tokenization 305
Beware of Pseudo-LLMs 307
Counterfactual CV 308
Philosophy Breakfasts 309
PART 9: Autobiobibliography 311
Terminology 311
2001 311
2002 312
2003 (January) 313
2003 (February) 314
2003 (March) 314
2003 (May) 315
2003 (June) 316
Appendix 317
Collection Patterns 317
New Social Media Groups 318
Index of WinDbg Commands 320
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