Spiking networks are to Machine Learning like Haskell to C++ and Python: While not really used to solve many real-world problems, they are extremely interesting

Spiking networks are to Machine Learning like Haskell to C++ and Python: While not really used to solve many real-world problems, they are extremely interesting academically, and important concepts have ended up in the mainstream, like event-based sensing and control, or event-driven signal processing.