Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -the terms of version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License or later as -published by the Free Software Foundation. +
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as +published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the +License, or (at your option) any later version. +
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- Svjatoslav Agejenko -
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu/ -
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu/ -
+ - Svjatoslav Agejenko + +
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu + +
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu + +
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+ - GNU Emacs
- At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp + runtime. + +
- Eclipse IDE
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- First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map. +
- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.
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+I would like to create general purpose environment with the following +properties: +
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- Makes lots of complex data intuitive to: -
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- manipulate and compute on +
+In both cases you can develop/install plugins for every purpose +imaginable. +
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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. +
- Realtime 3D graphics with immediate feedback loop. +
âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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+ - Flexible and distributed computation and data storage. + + +
- Cross device:
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- Easily switch and/or combine computers to work seamlessly on any +tasks. + + +
- User interface, data, software, running proceses etc are not +contained to any device. + +
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- Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
- Formulated high-level vision / goal. + + +
- In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
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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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- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces. +
- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.
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- 3D engine demos + +
+ - Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. +
- System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :) + + +
- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson. +
- Program - stored instructions for execution by computer. + -
- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. +
- Process - Currently running program.
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- Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
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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. + + +
- Easier migration of running processes between physical +computers. + + +
- Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament +storage. + + +
- Possibility checkpoint/revert running process. + + +
- Possibility to clone/branch running process. + +
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+ - Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
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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. + +
Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
-1 General
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1.1 Source code
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1 Current status
-2 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
+-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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2 Vision
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