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		fragsworth on Dec 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up... I'm not sure how this relates to the article?

orware on Dec 6, 2016 | [–]

I believe the comment is referring to how the newer ARM CPUs in smartphones utilize small battery efficient cores for basic stuff and can ramp up to more power hungry cores for the heavy stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE

GavinMcG on Dec 6, 2016 | [–]

It's offering the smartphone as an analogy for the behavior described in the article.

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