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#+TITLE: Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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-- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
- the terms of version 3 of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] or later as
- published by the Free Software Foundation.
+* General
+- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
- Program author:
- Svjatoslav Agejenko
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
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+** Source code
+- [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format]]
-* Current status
-There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
+- [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=summary][Browse Git repository online]]
+
+- Clone Git repository using command:
+ : git clone http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
+
+* Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
+ :END:
+Idea is to design all encompassing, flexible and powerful virtual
+environment where I can live in and very efficiently do all my
+computing tasks enjoyably and with playful ease.
+
+Examples of extendable environments where one can live in and do
+ almost everything:
+ + [[https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/][GNU Emacs]] :: At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of [[https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-cb02067/j-cb02067-pdf.pdf][Lisp]]
+ runtime.
+
+ + [[https://www.eclipse.org/ide/][Eclipse IDE]] :: In essence [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi][OSGi]] platform with a text editor.
+
+In both cases you can develop/install plugins for every purpose
+imaginable.
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
+I would like to create general purpose environment with the following
+properties:
-+ Sub projects:
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.]]
++ Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
+ - explore, understand
+ - manipulate and compute on
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]]
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html][3D engine demos]]
++ Extensively relying on:
+ - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Realtime 3D graphics]] with immediate feedback loop.
-* Vision
-- A tool to amplify human ability.
+ #+BEGIN_QUOTE
+ âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ
+ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+ #+END_QUOTE
+
++ [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Flexible and distributed computation and data storage]].
+
++ Cross device:
+ + Easily switch and/or combine computers to work seamlessly on any
+ tasks.
+
+ + User interface, data, software, running proceses etc are not
+ contained to any device.
+
+* Current status
++ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
-- Properly visualizes and immerses user in completely various forms of
- information and provides intuitive and powerful ways to explore,
- interact and manipulate it with fast feedback loop to immediately
- see results.
++ In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
+ - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Data storage engine.]]
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-#+END_QUOTE
+ - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]]
+ - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/][3D engine demos]]
-* Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future
-- Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
- - Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering.
- This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because
- of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics]["Three laws safe"]] design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+ and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
-- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
- interfaces.
+* Computation ideas
++ Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
-- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
- alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
++ Process - Currently running program.
+ + Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
+ every dependent library.
-- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
- processing, similar to IBM Watson.
+ + Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at
+ low level in the system.
-- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
+ + This allows:
+ + Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
+ already running processes.
-* Technical capabilities to have
-Perfect computing system must have advanced data visualization,
-storage, transmission and computation capabilities.
+ + Easier migration of running processes between physical
+ computers.
-There are LOTS of existing cool technical ideas and solutions for each
-challenge. It's really hard to pick the best. Here is a small list to
-evaluate.
-** Computing
-Efficient distributed computing is required.
+ + Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
+ storage.
-Possible solutions:
-+ MapReduce algorithm.
-+ LLVM.
-+ Julia programming language.
-+ ...
-** Networking
-P2P secure, fast and reliable networking is required.
+ + Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
-Possible solutions:
+ + Possibility to clone/branch running process.
-+ I2P: https://geti2p.net/en/
-+ GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/
-+ FreeNet
-+ ...
+* Frequently Given Answers
+- Why such name ?
+ - In short: it's just a number.
+ - Many years ago inspired by the ideas of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)][Forth (programming
+ language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/][Fifth]]
+ (computing/programming environment).
+ - Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+ I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.