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-In short, this is what I want:
+<p class="verse">
+Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:<br >
+  - explore, understand<br >
+  - manipulate and compute on<br >
+<br >
+by extensively relying on:<br >
+  - <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html">realtime 3D graphics</a> with immediate feedback loop<br >
+  - <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">flexible and distributed computation and data storage</a><br >
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-<li><a href="#sec-1-1">Perfect data storage and computation engine</a>
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-<li>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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Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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-</li>
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-<li>Why such name ?
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>In short: it's just a number.
-</li>
-<li>Many years ago inspired by the ideas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)">Forth (programming
-language)</a> I decided to create my own implementation <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html">Fifth</a>
-(computing/programming environment).
-</li>
-<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
-I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-</ul>
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-<p>
-I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine
-below properties in one system would be beyond awesome.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked
-out…)
-</p>
-
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>See: <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">Sixth data subproject</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
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-<h4 id="sec-1-1-1"><span class="section-number-4">1.1.1</span> Computation</h4>
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-<li>Lisp (programming language):
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Almost no syntax.
-</li>
-<li>Code and data intercangeable.
-</li>
-<li>Easily self modifying.
-</li>
-<li>(The big Lisp idea: <a href="https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp">https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp</a> )
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
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-<li>Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Everything is object.
-</li>
-<li>On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
-</li>
-<li>Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
-fly.
-</li>
-<li><a href="http://esug.org/data/ESUG2015/3%20wednesday/1100-1130%20SQL%20Queries%20on%20Smalltalk%20Objects/SQL%20Queries%20in%20Smalltalk%20(James%20Foster).pdf">GemStone/S</a>: Awesome feature list!
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-
-<li>Hadoop (computation system):
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Many individual connected computers behave as one big
-computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable.
-</li>
-<li>Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides
-problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
-</li>
-<li>Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in
-resiliency.
-</li>
-<li>Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node
-that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network
-efficiency).
-</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
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+<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Frequently Given Answers</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Why such name ?
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>In short: it's just a number.
+</li>
+<li>Many years ago inspired by the ideas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)">Forth (programming
+language)</a> I decided to create my own implementation <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html">Fifth</a>
+(computing/programming environment).
+</li>
+<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
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-<li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1. Perfect data storage and computation engine</a></li>
-</ul>
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+<li><a href="#sec-1">1. Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-2">2. Current status</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-3">3. Frequently Given Answers</a></li>
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<div><p class="author">Author: Svjatoslav Agejenko</p>
-<p class="date">Created: 2017-07-07 Fri 13:10</p>
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-* Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability
+* Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
:END:
-In short, this is what I want:
+#+BEGIN_VERSE
+Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
+ - explore, understand
+ - manipulate and compute on
-- [[id:4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21][Perfect data storage and computation engine]]
+by extensively relying on:
+ - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][realtime 3D graphics]] with immediate feedback loop
+ - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][flexible and distributed computation and data storage]]
+#+END_VERSE
-- 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)
- #+BEGIN_QUOTE
- “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
- Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
- #+END_QUOTE
-
-- 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 [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html][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.
-
-** Perfect data storage and computation engine
- :PROPERTIES:
- :ID: 4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21
- :END:
-
-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...)
-
-+ See: [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][Sixth data subproject]]
-
-*** Computation
-+ Lisp (programming language):
- + Almost no syntax.
- + Code and data intercangeable.
- + Easily self modifying.
- + (The big Lisp idea: https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp )
-
-+ Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
- + Everything is object.
- + On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
- + Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
- fly.
- + [[http://esug.org/data/ESUG2015/3%20wednesday/1100-1130%20SQL%20Queries%20on%20Smalltalk%20Objects/SQL%20Queries%20in%20Smalltalk%20(James%20Foster).pdf][GemStone/S]]: Awesome feature list!
-
-+ Hadoop (computation system):
- + 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).
+#+BEGIN_QUOTE
+“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
+Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+#+END_QUOTE
* Current status
+ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
+ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
+
+* 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 [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html][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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