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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by magospietato on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:30PM (#46819013)
Always wondered if dreaming is some kind of daily memory consolidation function. Logged short-term/episodic memory being filtered and the important bits baked by replaying in a limited simulacrum.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by direwolf20 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:34PM (#46819547)
There was once a neural network that used dreaming phases for regularisation. It would run in reverse on random data and whatever activated was down–weighted.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by ericdfoley on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:15PM (#46820131)
That's the wake sleep algorithm for undirected graphical models.

Hinton had a course on Coursera around 2015 that covered a lot of pre NN deep learning. Sadly I don't think it's up anymore.

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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by petethomas on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:48PM (#46820326)
There is this with a 2012 date:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYW...

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