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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by justsomehnguy on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:15AM (#34011114)
> I slept in frustration

Human brain runs a defrag process (quite literally) when the body sleeps. Not only this removes the cruft from the day but also rearranges and makes links for the knowledge gathered through the day.

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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by hn_go_brrrrr on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:05AM (#34012444)
Is glymphatic cleaning related to knowledge retention?
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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by justsomehnguy on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:12PM (#34024562)
It's more like they go hand in hand. I wouldn't say what it depends on it, but without it it would much harder to retain and structure new information. It is commonly observed in a long hours jobs and tests what after some time the new info just doesn't get processed properly.
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