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[deleted] t1_ix6v9dc wrote

Reply to comment by DrXaos in Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representation by chromoscience

We also have problems of overwriting data without intervening sleep. Breaks can help to an extent as well. When you space out your brain is compressing ideas into abstractions as it does when you sleep, but only for short less effective bursts.

This is why they sought to replicate that mechanism in silico

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