How the invention of the sewing machine led to other modern marvels

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.
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Liquid state machine based pattern recognition on FPGA with firing-activity dependent power gating and approximate computing

Abstract: This paper presents an FPGA architecture and implementation of the Liquid State Machine, a spiking neural network model, for real world pattern recognition problems. The proposed ...