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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 / goal - A tool to amplify human ability</h2>
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-There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
+In short, this is what I want:
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-<p>
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
-</p>
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="#sec-1-1">Perfect data storage and computation engine</a>
+</li>
+<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)
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Sub projects:
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.</a>
+<blockquote>
+<p>
+“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
+Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+</p>
+</blockquote>
</li>
-<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>
+<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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+
+<div id="outline-container-sec-1-1" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="sec-1-1"><a id="ID-4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21" name="ID-4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21"></a><span class="section-number-3">1.1</span> Perfect data storage and computation engine</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1-1">
+
+<p>
+I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine
+below properties in one system would be beyond awesome.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked
+out…)
+</p>
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-<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Vision</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
+<div id="outline-container-sec-1-1-1" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-1-1-1"><span class="section-number-4">1.1.1</span> Computation</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-1-1-1">
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-<li>A tool to amplify human ability.
+<li>Lisp (programming language):
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<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>
-<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>Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Everything is object.
+</li>
+<li>On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
+</li>
+<li>Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
+fly.
</li>
</ul>
+</li>
-<blockquote>
-<p>
-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-</p>
-</blockquote>
+<li>Hadoop (computation system):
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Many individual connected computers behave as one big
+computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable.
+</li>
+<li>Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides
+problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
+</li>
+<li>Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in
+resiliency.
+</li>
+<li>Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node
+that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network
+efficiency).
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
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-<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Features to implement in the future</h2>
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+<div id="outline-container-sec-1-1-2" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="sec-1-1-2"><span class="section-number-4">1.1.2</span> Data storage</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-1-1-2">
+<p>
+See: <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">Sixth data subproject</a>
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Relational databases:
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
+<li>Transactional
+</li>
+<li>Indexable / Quickly searchable
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+
+<li>Git (version control system)
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-<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>Versionable
+</li>
+<li>Branchable / mergeable.
+</li>
+<li>Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication.
+</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>
</ul>
</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
-<li>Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
-interfaces.
+<div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Current status</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Formulated high-level <a href="#sec-1">vision / goal</a>.
</li>
-<li>Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
-alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
+<li>In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">Data storage engine.</a>
</li>
-<li>Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
-processing, similar to IBM Watson.
+<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>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
</li>
-<li>P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
+<li>System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
</li>
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+<li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1. Perfect data storage and computation engine</a></li>
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