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198 <div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><h1 class="title">Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction</h1>
201 <li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">download latest snapshot</a>
204 <li>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
205 the terms of version 3 of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a> or later as
206 published by the Free Software Foundation.
211 <li>Svjatoslav Agejenko
213 <li>Homepage: <a href="http://svjatoslav.eu">http://svjatoslav.eu</a>
215 <li>Email: <a href="mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu">mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu</a>
220 <li><a href="http://svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp">other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
224 <div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
225 <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Current status</h2>
226 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
228 There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
232 Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
233 working parts are already implemented:
240 <li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.</a>
243 <li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html">In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.</a>
245 <li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html">3D engine demos</a>
255 <div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
256 <h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Vision</h2>
257 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
259 <li>A tool to amplify human ability.
262 <li>Properly visualizes and immerses user in completely various forms of
263 information and provides intuitive and powerful ways to explore,
264 interact and manipulate it with fast feedback loop to immediately
271 “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
272 Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
278 <div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
279 <h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future</h2>
280 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
282 <li>Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
284 <li>Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering.
285 This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because
286 of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics">"Three laws safe"</a> design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
291 <li>Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
295 <li>Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
296 alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
299 <li>Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
300 processing, similar to IBM Watson.
303 <li>P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
309 <div id="outline-container-sec-4" class="outline-2">
310 <h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Technical capabilities to have</h2>
311 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
313 Perfect computing system must have advanced data visualization,
314 storage, transmission and computation capabilities.
318 There are LOTS of existing cool technical ideas and solutions for each
319 challenge. It's really hard to pick the best. Here is a small list to
323 <div id="outline-container-sec-4-1" class="outline-3">
324 <h3 id="sec-4-1"><span class="section-number-3">4.1</span> Computing</h3>
325 <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-4-1">
327 Efficient distributed computing is required.
334 <li>MapReduce algorithm.
338 <li>Julia programming language.
345 <div id="outline-container-sec-4-2" class="outline-3">
346 <h3 id="sec-4-2"><span class="section-number-3">4.2</span> Networking</h3>
347 <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-4-2">
349 P2P secure, fast and reliable networking is required.
357 <li>I2P: <a href="https://geti2p.net/en/">https://geti2p.net/en/</a>
359 <li>GNUnet: <a href="https://gnunet.org/">https://gnunet.org/</a>
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372 <li><a href="#sec-1">1. Current status</a></li>
373 <li><a href="#sec-2">2. Vision</a></li>
374 <li><a href="#sec-3">3. Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future</a></li>
375 <li><a href="#sec-4">4. Technical capabilities to have</a>
377 <li><a href="#sec-4-1">4.1. Computing</a></li>
378 <li><a href="#sec-4-2">4.2. Networking</a></li>
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386 <div><p class="author">Author: Svjatoslav Agejenko</p>
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