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- Svjatoslav Agejenko -
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- Svjatoslav Agejenko + +
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu + +
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu +
-Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
-alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
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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 + + +
- 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)
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++âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ +Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) +
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+ - Why such name ?
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- In short: it's just a number. + +
- Many years ago inspired by the ideas of Forth (programming +language) I decided to create my own implementation 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. + +
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+1.1 Perfect data storage and computation engine
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+-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: +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…) +
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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
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-1.1.1 Computation
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- Sub projects: +
- Lisp (programming language):
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- First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map. +
- Almost no syntax. + +
- Code and data intercangeable. + +
- Easily self modifying. + +
- (The big Lisp idea: https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp ) + +
- - In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine. +
- Smalltalk (programming language / runtime): -
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+Hadoop (computation system):
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- 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. +
- 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). + +
++-1.1.2 Data storage
+--âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ -Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) +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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+- Indexable / Quickly searchable +
+Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces. +Git (version control system) + + ++
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+- Branchable / mergeable. +
+- Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication. +
+- (Git as a database: +https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/ ) +
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+2 Current status
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- Formulated high-level vision / goal. + -
- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson. +
- In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
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- Data storage engine. + -
- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. +
- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.
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- 3D engine demos + +
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+ - System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :) +