where over 4500 leading researchers and clinicians share their expert opinions by highlighting and evaluating the most important articles in biology and medicine
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. Initially an annual conference, the scope of TED has expanded to include a bi-annual global conference, a humanitarian prize, and free audio/video podcasts of extraordinary talks.
sux0r 2.0 is an extendable content management system (CMS) built around the principles of Naive Bayesian probabilistic content.
Naive Bayesian Categorization is the ouija board of mathematics. Known for being good at filtering junk mail, the Naive Bayesian algorithm can categorize anything so long as there are coherent reference texts to work from. For example, categorizing documents in relation to a vector of political manifestos, or religious holy books, make for a neat trick. More subjective magic 8-ball categories could be "good vs. bad" or company press releases in relation to stock market prices.
In addition to being a blog, RSS aggregator, bookmark repository, and photo publishing platform, sux0r 2.0 allows users to maintain multiple lists of Naive Bayesian categories. These category lists, called vectors, can be shared with other users. This allows a group of trusted friends to share, train, and use sux0r together.
Reality Carnival: Clifford A. Pickover's Headlines at the borderlands of science: from parallel universes to exotic sushi to religion, science, and psychedelics.
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use.
Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).
As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.