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Here's a good review that came out not too long ago: >Specifically, newer findings characterize sleep as a brain state optimizing memory consolidation, in oppo
by bduerst 9y ago
Here's a good review that came out not too long ago:
>Specifically, newer findings characterize sleep as a brain state optimizing memory consolidation, in opposition to the waking brain being optimized for encoding of memories.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ac5/c749244b9e2509a670a8168507d4f07b1858.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ac5/c749244b9e2509a670a816... [pdf]
- dboreham 9y agoGC
- esfandia 9y agoInteresting. It's like the Refactoring phase of TDD. So basically during the day you experience new observations ("tests" if you will), you address/process them however you can on the spot ("green bar"), then during sleep you take stock and generalize so you can reuse the experiences of the day for the future ("refactor"). I've been seeing this TDD process in a lot of things lately. Scientific progress seems to follow the same process as well (at least that's one way to capture what Popper or Lakatos have been telling us, not that I've actually read them yet mind you).
- uberdog 9y agoBoth refactoring and GC.
- zaptheimpaler 9y ago<clever analogy to some CS concept. life is a computer. human is a machine. brain is a program. all is binary. 0010100101. why does the treadmill speed up the harder i run?>