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-* Current status
-There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
-
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
+* Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
+ :END:
+In short, this is what I want:
+
+- [[id:4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21][Perfect data storage and computation engine]]
+
+- 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)
+
+ #+BEGIN_QUOTE
+ “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
+ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+ #+END_QUOTE
+
+- Why such name ?
+ - In short: it's just a number.
+ - Many years ago inspired by the ideas of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)][Forth (programming
+ language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html][Fifth]]
+ (computing/programming environment).
+ - Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+ I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
+
+** Perfect data storage and computation engine
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21
+ :END:
+
+I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine
+below properties in one system would be beyond awesome.
+
+(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked
+out...)
+
+*** Computation
++ Lisp (programming language):
+ + Almost no syntax.
+ + Code and data intercangeable.
+ + Easily self modifying.
+ + (The big Lisp idea: https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp )
+
++ Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
+ + Everything is object.
+ + On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
+ + Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
+ fly.
+
++ Hadoop (computation system):
+ + Many individual connected computers behave as one big
+ computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable.
+ + Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides
+ problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
+ + Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in
+ resiliency.
+ + Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node
+ that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network
+ efficiency).
+
+*** Data storage
+See: [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][Sixth data subproject]]
+
++ Relational databases:
+ + Transactional
+ + Indexable / Quickly searchable
+
++ Git (version control system)
+ + Versionable
+ + Branchable / mergeable.
+ + Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication.
+ + (Git as a database:
+ https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/ )
+* Current status
++ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
-+ Sub projects:
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.]]
++ In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
+ - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][Data storage engine.]]
- [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]]
- [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html][3D engine demos]]
-* Vision
-- A tool to amplify human ability.
-
-- 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.
-
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-#+END_QUOTE
-
-* Features to implement in the future
-
-- Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
- - Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering.
- This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because
- of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics]["Three laws safe"]] design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
-
-- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
- interfaces.
-
-- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
- alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
-
-- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
- processing, similar to IBM Watson.
-
-- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+ and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
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