Sentence examples for pruning away from inspiring English sources

There are several useful methods for finding those relevant data regions including simple nearest neighbor, or kNN, algorithms; clustering (to optimize subsequent kNN); and pruning away "bad" regions.

The result was that Congress often passed up "smart cuts" in favor of dumb ones — taking broad hacks at the budget, instead of pruning away what was unnecessary.

Leading up to the dream are four critical phases responsible for synaptic rejuvenation, or the process of pruning away unneeded mental connections and consolidating or reinforcing needed ones.

She is particularly adept at unearthing submerged themes, developing swift transitions, unsentimentally pruning away digressions, even when -- especially when -- they are hundreds of pages long.

For this problem, we propose a polynomial time approximation algorithm based on iteratively constructing shortest path trees and heuristically pruning away the relay nodes used until the hop count bound is violated.

This suggested to Ramachandran that the syndrome arises from a defect in the gene responsible for pruning away the neural fibres that connect the various centers of the brain as it develops early in life.

Around 7,500 of the two companies' 61,500 staff have been pruned away.

The Mets' hedge trimmer of an attack pruned away a four-run deficit.

I need to prune away the unneeded parts and work on some details like double clicking on hoc files.

The key is to prune away the most speculative stocks and concentrate on those with the stronger growth prospects.

Over time, we prune away the connections we don't use, and the remaining ones become faster and more automatic.