Conclusion

  1. You can learn categorisers with biologically plausible spiking neurons and STDP.
  2. A lot of standard machine learning tricks work, like co-variance, feature combination, and Word2Vec.
  3. The layered topology and timing presentation mechanism is not biologically plausible.
  4. This is not a very advanced form of machine learning. There is a lot left to explore.
  5. The current results are sound, but not leading edge.