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<li>Svjatoslav Agejenko
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-<li>Homepage: <a href="http://svjatoslav.eu">http://svjatoslav.eu</a>
+<li>Homepage: <a href="https://svjatoslav.eu">https://svjatoslav.eu</a>
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<li>Email: <a href="mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu">mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu</a>
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-<li><a href="http://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/">Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
+<li><a href="https://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/">Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
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working code under <a href="#sec-4">sub-projects</a>.
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-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format</a>
+<li><a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format</a>
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-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=summary">Browse Git repository online</a>
+<li><a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=summary">Browse Git repository online</a>
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<li>Clone Git repository using command:
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-git clone http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
+git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
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<h2 id="sec-2"><a id="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f" name="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f"></a><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</h2>
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-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.
+Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A tool, that provides powerful, easy to use computing environment for
+solving wide range of problems.
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-<li>Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>explore, understand
-</li>
-<li>manipulate and compute on
-</li>
-</ul>
+<li>Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand and
+manipulate/transform.
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-<li>Extensively relying on:
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Realtime 3D graphics</a> with immediate feedback loop.
+<li>Things are visual, realtime with immediate feedback.
</li>
-</ul>
+
+<li>Extensively utilizes <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">realtime 3D graphics</a> and capabilities of human
+visual perception.
+
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“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
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+</ul>
+
-<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">Flexible and distributed computation and data storage</a>.
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Behind the scenes, computations are done primarily in<a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/"> on versioned
+data in distributed, scalable, frexible computation engine</a>.
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<li>Cross device:
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<h3 id="sec-2-1"><a id="ID-c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f" name="ID-c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f"></a><span class="section-number-3">2.1</span> Extensible, programmable computing environment examples</h3>
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-<dl class="org-dl">
-<dt> <a href="https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/">GNU Emacs</a> </dt><dd>At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
-runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in
-<a href="https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html">Lisp</a>. Emacs provides text buffers that can be used to
-build GUI.
-</dd>
-
-<dt> <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/ide/">Eclipse IDE</a> </dt><dd>In essence <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi">OSGi</a> platform with a text
-editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides
-integration, runtime and GUI platform.
-</dd>
-
-<dt> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes">IBM Notes/Domino</a> </dt><dd>Custom database engine, software development
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/">GNU Emacs</a> - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
+runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in <a href="https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html">Lisp</a>. Domain
+specific languages to fit particular problem could be developed as
+needed and Emacs extended to support those languages. Emacs provides
+text buffers that can be used to build user interfaces.
+</li>
+
+<li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/ide/">Eclipse IDE</a> - In essence <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi">OSGi</a> platform with a text
+editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration,
+runtime and GUI platform.
+</li>
+
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes">IBM Notes/Domino</a> - Custom database engine, software development
platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and
LotusScript.
-</dd>
+</li>
-<dt> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP">SAP ABAP</a> </dt><dd>Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform,
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP">SAP ABAP</a> - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform,
development environment and programming language.
-</dd>
-</dl>
+</li>
+</ul>
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<h2 id="sec-4"><a id="ID-52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae" name="ID-52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae"></a><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Architecture / components</h2>
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-<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/">Sixth</a> - Parent project.
+<li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/">Sixth</a> - Parent project.
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-<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">Sixth Data</a> - Data storage and computation engine.
+<li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">Sixth Data</a> - Data storage and computation engine.
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-<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Sixth 3D</a> - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
+<li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Sixth 3D</a> - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/">Sixth 3D engine demos</a> - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities.
+<li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/">Sixth 3D engine demos</a> - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities.
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<li>In short: it's just a number.
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<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://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/">Fifth</a>
+language)</a> I decided to create my own implementation <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/">Fifth</a>
(computing/programming environment).
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<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
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-<p class="date">Created: 2018-12-17 Mon 20:57</p>
-<p class="creator"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 25.2.2 (<a href="http://orgmode.org">Org-mode</a> 8.2.10)</p>
+<p class="date">Created: 2019-08-17 Sat 14:26</p>
+<p class="creator"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 26.1 (<a href="http://orgmode.org">Org-mode</a> 9.1.9)</p>
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