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-<h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Current status</h2>
+<h2 id="sec-1"><a id="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f" name="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f"></a><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</h2>
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-There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
+<p class="verse">
+Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:<br >
+  - explore, understand<br >
+  - manipulate and compute on<br >
+<br >
+by extensively relying on:<br >
+  - <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html">realtime 3D graphics</a> with immediate feedback loop<br >
+  - <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">flexible and distributed computation and data storage</a><br >
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+
+<blockquote>
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-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
+“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
+Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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+</blockquote>
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+<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Current status</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
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-<li>Sub projects:
+<li>Formulated high-level <a href="#sec-1">vision / goal</a>.
+</li>
+
+<li>In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
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-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.</a>
+<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">Data storage engine.</a>
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<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html">In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.</a>
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-<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Vision</h2>
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-<li>A tool to amplify human ability.
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-<li>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.
+<li>System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
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-<blockquote>
-<p>
-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-</p>
-</blockquote>
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-<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Features to implement in the future</h2>
+<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Computation ideas</h2>
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-<li>Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
+<li>Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
+</li>
+
+<li>Process - Currently running program.
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering.
-This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because
-of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics">"Three laws safe"</a> design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
+<li>Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
+every dependent library.
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at
+low level in the system.
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-</ul>
+
+<li>This allows:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
+already running processes.
+</li>
+
+<li>Easier migration of running processes between physical
+computers.
</li>
-<li>Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
-interfaces.
+<li>Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
+storage.
</li>
-<li>Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
-alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
+<li>Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
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-<li>Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
-processing, similar to IBM Watson.
+<li>Possibility to clone/branch running process.
+</li>
+</ul>
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+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
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-<li>P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
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+<h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Frequently Given Answers</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Why such name ?
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>In short: it's just a number.
+</li>
+<li>Many years ago inspired by the ideas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)">Forth (programming
+language)</a> I decided to create my own implementation <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html">Fifth</a>
+(computing/programming environment).
+</li>
+<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
+</li>
+</ul>
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-<li><a href="#sec-3">3. Features to implement in the future</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-1">1. Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-2">2. Current status</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-3">3. Computation ideas</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-4">4. Frequently Given Answers</a></li>
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