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-In short, this is what I want:
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+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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-<li><a href="#sec-1-1">Perfect data storage and computation engine</a>
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-<li>Feeds lots of complex data into your brain in intuitive to explore,
-understand and manipulate form by extensively relying on realtime 3D
-graphics and fast feedback loop. (including virtual reality support)
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Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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-<p>
-I love thease existing solutions and properties:
-</p>
-
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Lisp (programming language):
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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>Almost no syntax.
-</li>
-<li>Code and data intercangeable.
-</li>
-<li>Easily self modifying.
-</li>
-<li>(The big Lisp idea: <a href="https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp">https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp</a> )
-</li>
-</ul>
+<li>Formulated high-level <a href="#sec-1">vision / goal</a>.
</li>
-<li>Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
+<li>In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Everything is object.
+<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">Data storage engine.</a>
</li>
-<li>On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
+
+<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html">In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.</a>
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html">3D engine demos</a>
</li>
-<li>Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
-fly.
+</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-<li>Relational databases:
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Transactional
-</li>
-<li>Indexable / Quickly searchable
+<li>System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
</li>
</ul>
-</li>
+</div>
+</div>
-<li>Git (version control system)
+<div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Computation ideas</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
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-<li>Versionable
+<li>Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
</li>
-<li>Branchable / mergeable.
+
+<li>Process - Currently running program.
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<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.
</li>
-<li>Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication.
+
+<li>This allows:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
+already running processes.
</li>
-<li>(Git as a database:
-<a href="https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/">https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/</a> )
+
+<li>Easier migration of running processes between physical
+computers.
</li>
-</ul>
+
+<li>Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
+storage.
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-<li>Hadoop (computation system):
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Many individual connected computers behave as one big
-computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable.
+<li>Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
</li>
-<li>Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides
-problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
+
+<li>Possibility to clone/branch running process.
</li>
-<li>Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in
-resiliency.
+</ul>
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-<li>Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node
-that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network
-efficiency).
+</ul>
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-<p>
-I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine
-above properties in one system would be beyond awesome.
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-(I have not solved it yet..)
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-<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Current status</h2>
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-<ul class="org-ul">
-<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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+<h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Frequently Given Answers</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
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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>
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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>
+<li>Why such name ?
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html">3D engine demos</a>
+<li>In short: it's just a number.
</li>
-</ul>
+<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>
-</ul>
+<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
</li>
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-<li>System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
-and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
+</ul>
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-<li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1. Perfect data storage and computation engine</a></li>
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+<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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