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    1 Current status

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    1 Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability

    -There is nothing useful for regular people yet. +In short, this is what I want:

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    • Perfect data storage and computation engine +
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    • 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) + +

      -Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: +“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” +Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)

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    • Why such name ?
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      • First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.
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      • In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.
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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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    1.1 Perfect data storage and computation engine

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    +I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine +below properties in one system would be beyond awesome. +

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    +(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked +out…) +

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    2 Vision

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    1.1.1 Computation

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    • Lisp (programming language): + +
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    • 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.
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    • Smalltalk (programming language / runtime): +
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      • Everything is object. +
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      • On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable. +
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      • Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the +fly. +
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    • Hadoop (computation system): +
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      • Many individual connected computers behave as one big +computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable. +
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      • Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides +problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined. +
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      • Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in +resiliency. +
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      • Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node +that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network +efficiency). +
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    3 Features to implement in the future

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    1.1.2 Data storage

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    +See: Sixth data subproject +

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    • Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
    • Relational databases:
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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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    • Transactional +
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    • Indexable / Quickly searchable +
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  • Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces.
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    2 Current status

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    • Formulated high-level vision / goal. +
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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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    • P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
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    • System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :) +
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