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#+TITLE: 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 [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] or later as
- published by the Free Software Foundation.
-
-- Program author:
- - Svjatoslav Agejenko
- - Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu
- - Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
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-* Current status
-There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
-
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
-
-
-+ Sub projects:
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.]]
-
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]]
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html][3D engine demos]]
-
-* Vision
-- 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.
+* General
+- This program is free software: released under Creative Commons Zero
+ (CC0) license
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-#+END_QUOTE
-
-* Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future
-- Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
- - Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering.
- This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because
- of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics]["Three laws safe"]] design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
-
-- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
- interfaces.
-
-- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
- alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
-
-- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
- processing, similar to IBM Watson.
-
-- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
-
-* Technical capabilities to have
-Perfect computing system must have advanced data visualization,
-storage, transmission and computation capabilities.
-
-There are LOTS of existing cool technical ideas and solutions for each
-challenge. It's really hard to pick the best. Here is a small list to
-evaluate.
-** Computing
-Efficient distributed computing is required.
-
-Possible solutions:
-+ MapReduce algorithm.
-+ LLVM.
-+ Julia programming language.
-+ ...
-** Networking
-P2P secure, fast and reliable networking is required.
-
-Possible solutions:
+- Program author:
+ - Svjatoslav Agejenko
+ - Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu
+ - Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
-+ I2P: https://geti2p.net/en/
-+ GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/
-+ FreeNet
-+ ...
+- [[https://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/][Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu]]
+
+** Source code
++ Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find
+ working code under [[id:52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae][sub-projects]].
+
+- [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format]]
+
+- [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=summary][Browse Git repository online]]
+
+- Clone Git repository using command:
+ : git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
+* Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
+ :END:
+Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.
+
+A tool, that provides powerful, extensible, adaptable, hackable, easy
+to use, general purpose computing environment for working with
+knowledge.
+
+[[id:c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f][See extensible, programmable computing environment examples]].
+
+I would like to create better general purpose computing environment
+with the following priorities:
+
++ Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand, manipulate,
+ transform and visualize.
+
++ Workflow and user interface is intuitive, visual, realtime,
+ 3D-first.
+
+ #+BEGIN_QUOTE
+ âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ
+ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+ #+END_QUOTE
+
++ Computations are done primarily in [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][on versioned data in distributed,
+ scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical
+ computation engine]].
+
++ Free and open.
+
++ Network first:
+ + Cross device:
+ + Easily switch devices and still access same data, workspaces and
+ visualizations.
+ + Easily access and combine storage and computing resources of
+ other connected devices.
+
+ + Ability to collaborate (multi user).
+
+** Extensible, programmable computing environment examples
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f
+ :END:
++ [[https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/][GNU Emacs]] - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
+ runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in [[https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html][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.
+
++ [[https://www.eclipse.org/ide/][Eclipse IDE]] - In essence [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi][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)
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes][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.
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP][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.
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access][Microsoft Access]] - Database management system that combines
+ relational database engine with a graphical user interface and
+ software-development tools.
+* Current status
++ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
+
++ In the process of implementing some of [[id:52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae][building blocks]].
+
++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+ and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are
+ welcome !
+* Architecture / components
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae
+ :END:
++ [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/][Sixth]] - Parent project.
+ + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Sixth Data]] - Data storage and computation engine.
+ + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D]] - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
+ + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/][Sixth 3D engine demos]] - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities.
+
+* Frequently Given Answers
+- Why such name ?
+ - In short: it's just a number.
+ - Many years ago inspired by the ideas of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)][Forth (programming
+ language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/][Fifth]]
+ (computing/programming environment).
+ - Forth/Fifth felt a bit too low-level language. So current
+ project/approach is an attempt using Java.
+* See also
+Following projects are inspiring or have similar goals:
+
++ [[https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9][kons-9]]: An IDE For 3D Production. The intention is to develop a
+ flexible and extensible system in which can be built a wide variety
+ of application and domain specific tools and packages.
+
++ [[https://gtoolkit.com/][Glamorous Toolkit]]: Moldable development environment. It is a live
+ notebook. It is a flexible search interface. It is a fancy code
+ editor. It is a software analysis platform. It is a data
+ visualization engine. All in one.
+
+** Computation on multi dimensional data
++ [[https://rd-alliance.org/system/files/Array-Databases_final-report.pdf][Array Databases: Concepts, Standards, Implementations]]
+
++ [[https://tiledb.com/][TileDB]]
+ + Analyze and share complex multi-dimensional data at scale
+
++ [[id:01aa65c1-3d44-44a8-9b90-58454bc6be80][CM-1 Connection Machine]]
+
++ [[https://lisp-stat.dev/][Lisp-Stat: An environment for Statistical Computing]]
+** Distributed, reliable, parallel computing systems
++ [[https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp][ChrysaLisp]]
+ + Assembler/C-Script/Lisp 64 bit, MIMD, multi CPU, multi threaded,
+ multi core, multi user Parallel OS. With GUI, Terminal, OO
+ Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter,
+ Debugger, and more...
+
++ [[http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html][TAOS]]
+ + Completely distributed operating system/virtual machine:
+
++ [[http://esug.org/data/ESUG2015/3%20wednesday/1100-1130%20SQL%20Queries%20on%20Smalltalk%20Objects/SQL%20Queries%20in%20Smalltalk%20(James%20Foster).pdf][Gemstone/S]]
+ + Completely distributed smalltalk based computing
+ system.
+
++ http://phantomos.org/
+ + Programs run forever. System crash or reboot does not destroy
+ state of running program.
+
++ [[http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665][Magma]]
+ + Multi-user object database for Squeak