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2 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability

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-There is nothing useful for regular people yet. +Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.

-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: +A tool, that provides powerful, extensible, adaptable, hackable, easy +to use, general purpose computing environment for working with +knowledge.

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+See extensible, programmable computing environment examples. +

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+I would like to create better general purpose computing environment +with the following priorities: +

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2 Vision

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  • Workflow and user interface is intuitive, visual, realtime, +3D-first.

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    • Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)

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    3 Features to implement in the future

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  • Computations are done primarily in on versioned data in distributed, +scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical +computation engine. +
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    • Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
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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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    • Easily switch devices and still access same data, workspaces and +visualizations. +
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    • Easily access and combine storage and computing resources of +other connected devices. +
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  • Ability to collaborate (multi user). +
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  • Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces.
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    2.1 Extensible, programmable computing environment examples

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    • GNU Emacs - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp +runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in Lisp. Lisp is +on itself programmable programming language where new paradigms can +be added dynamically. 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. So you can customize Emacs and Lisp to fit +any problem domain. +
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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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    • Eclipse IDE - In essence OSGi platform with a text +editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration, +runtime and GUI platform. One can develop Eclipse plugins to add +necessary logic and visual parts to fit any problem. (IntelliJ and +NetBeans have similar properties) +
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    • Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson.
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    • IBM Notes/Domino - Custom database engine, software development +platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and +LotusScript. You can build distributed business applications on it +as a platform. +
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    • SAP ABAP - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform, +development environment and programming language. Is being used as a +platform to build business applications with any logic and UI. +
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    • Microsoft Access - Database management system that combines +relational database engine with a graphical user interface and +software-development tools. +
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    Author: Svjatoslav Agejenko

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    Created: 2016-08-23 Tue 09:24

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    • Formulated high-level vision / goal. +
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    • In the process of implementing some of building blocks. +
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    • System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are +welcome ! +
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    4 Architecture / components

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    • Sixth - Parent project. +
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      • Sixth Data - Data storage and computation engine. +
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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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      • Forth/Fifth felt a bit too low-level language. So current +project/approach is an attempt using Java. +
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