Re:Language Models Need Sleep
by nextaccountic on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:17PM
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> The function of sleep in animals is largely obscure.
This just obscures the conversation IMO. We know a great deal of functions that sleeping performs. We don't know everything. For some reason this prevents us for using this word in a computing context? What do you think about sleep(1) in Unix?
Also..
> Does their LLM "die" if it can't perform the function described?
what "death" means in the context of a computer program?
This just obscures the conversation IMO. We know a great deal of functions that sleeping performs. We don't know everything. For some reason this prevents us for using this word in a computing context? What do you think about sleep(1) in Unix?
Also..
> Does their LLM "die" if it can't perform the function described?
what "death" means in the context of a computer program?