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2 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability

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-There is nothing useful for regular people yet. +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.

-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: +Examples of extendable environments where one can live in and do + almost everything:

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GNU Emacs
At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp + runtime. +
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    Eclipse IDE
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    +In both cases you can develop/install plugins for every purpose +imaginable. +

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    3 Features to implement in the future

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    3 Current status

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    4 Computation ideas

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    • Program - stored instructions for execution by computer. +
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      • Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering. -This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because -of "Three laws safe" design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
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    • Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and +every dependent library. + +
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      • Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at +low level in the system. +
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        • Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking +already running processes. +
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        • Easier migration of running processes between physical +computers. +
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        • Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces.
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        • Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament +storage. +
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        • Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
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        • Possibility checkpoint/revert running process. +
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        • Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson.
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        • Possibility to clone/branch running process. +
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  • P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
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    5 Frequently Given Answers

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    • Why such name ? +
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      • In short: it's just a number. +
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      • Many years ago inspired by the ideas of Forth (programming +language) I decided to create my own implementation Fifth +(computing/programming environment). +
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      • Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So +I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java. +
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