The process in the article is pretty similar to dropout in neural nets. But instead of "knowing" what to get rid of, we randomly prune. The brain may do it rand

The process in the article is pretty similar to dropout in neural nets. But instead of "knowing" what to get rid of, we randomly prune. The brain may do it randomly or intelligently, hard to say based on these studies. See here for info on dropout: http://bit.ly/1mneaL5 http://bit.ly/1mneaL5