Interestingly, the brain also undergoes a thorough pruning process early in childhood development. I wonder whether this process accomplishes something similar

Interestingly, the brain also undergoes a thorough pruning process early in childhood development. I wonder whether this process accomplishes something similar to what the linked approach does for artificial neural networks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning