Sleep for AI: Runtime Compression as the Flywheel of Relentless Acceleration

Author:   Riaan de Beer
Publisher:   Independently Published
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9798244482706


Pages:   34
Publication Date:   18 January 2026
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Sleep for AI: Runtime Compression as the Flywheel of Relentless Acceleration


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The brain processes yottabytes of input across a lifetime yet runs on 3 petabytes of effective capacity. It achieves this by nightly runtime refinement: overproduce connections early, then prune 40-60% or more, downscale globally during slow-wave sleep, and abstract during REM phases. The result is a high-density core that thinks faster, generalizes sharper, and adapts harder on limited resources. Current AI models refuse the lesson. They accumulate without purge - carrying redundant weights that add 2-5× inference latency, bloat memory footprint, trigger catastrophic forgetting, and accelerate diminishing returns on scale. Runtime compression changes that. Scheduled refinement cycles - pruning to density, replay to reinforcement, self-distillation to abstraction, caching to stratified velocity - keep the active core lean and fast while preserving on-demand access to the long tail. Prototypes already deliver: 2-5× inference speedup 70-95% active mass reduction 30-70% forgetting drop Compounding gains per cycle This is not restraint. It is the organic flywheel that turns accumulation into acceleration. Compress to accelerate. The ceiling is waiting. Let's build it. ""The brain doesn't scale by hoarding every synapse it ever made - it scales by nightly compression: pruning 40-60% of connections, downscaling noise, distilling abstractions. That's how it turns yottabytes of input into a 3-petabyte core that punches far above its weight. Current models don't do that. They carry unrefined mass forward - redundant weights that bloat latency, saturate memory, and cause catastrophic forgetting. Every parameter is a tax on speed and cost. Runtime compression fixes it. Scheduled cycles prune low-signal mass, replay high-value trajectories, distill abstractions, and cache the long tail on cheap storage. Prototypes show 2-5× inference speedup, 70-95% footprint reduction, and halved forgetting - all while keeping rare knowledge accessible. This isn't about slowing down or being green. It's about going faster: denser cores, lower latency, faster iteration, higher reach.

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Author:   Riaan de Beer
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.059kg
ISBN:  

9798244482706


Pages:   34
Publication Date:   18 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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