From: Svjatoslav Agejenko Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 23:07:31 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Cleaned up project description / ideas. X-Git-Url: http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2feef58c553d58650c5ffb8e5d92ca08a8474687;p=sixth.git Cleaned up project description / ideas. --- diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 20deddc..d4ebd75 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction - + @@ -222,170 +222,157 @@ published by the Free Software Foundation.
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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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1.1 Perfect data storage and computation engine

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+I love thease existing solutions and properties: +

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    2 Vision

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  • Relational databases:
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    • Transactional
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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. +
    • Indexable / Quickly searchable
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    -“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” -Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) -

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    3 Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future

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    • Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
    • Git (version control system)
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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. +
      • Versionable +
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      • Branchable / mergeable. +
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      • Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication.
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    • Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces. +
    • 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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      • Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. +
      • Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides +problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
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      • Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson. +
      • Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in +resiliency.
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      • P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. +
      • Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node +that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network +efficiency). +
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    4 Technical capabilities to have

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    -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. -

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    4.1 Computing

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    -Efficient distributed computing is required. +I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine +above properties in one system would be beyond awesome.

    -Possible solutions: +(I have not solved it yet..)

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    • MapReduce algorithm. -
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    • LLVM. -
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    • Julia programming language. -
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    4.2 Networking

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    -P2P secure, fast and reliable networking is required. -

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    diff --git a/doc/index.org b/doc/index.org index e166a98..118bfb2 100644 --- a/doc/index.org +++ b/doc/index.org @@ -24,70 +24,74 @@ #+HTML_HEAD: pre {background-color: #111; color: #ccc;} #+HTML_HEAD: +* Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability + :PROPERTIES: + :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f + :END: +In short, this is what I want: + +- [[id:4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21][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) + + #+BEGIN_QUOTE + “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” + Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) + #+END_QUOTE + + +** Perfect data storage and computation engine + :PROPERTIES: + :ID: 4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21 + :END: +I love thease existing solutions and properties: + ++ Lisp (programming language): + + Almost no syntax. + + Code and data intercangeable. + + Easily self modifying. + ++ Smalltalk (programming language / runtime): + + Everything is object. + + On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable. + + Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the + fly. + ++ Relational databases: + + Transactional + + Indexable / Quickly searchable + ++ Git (version control system) + + Versionable + + Branchable / mergeable. + + Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication. + ++ 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). + + +I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine +above properties in one system would be beyond awesome. + +(I have not solved it yet..) * Current status -There is nothing useful for regular people yet. ++ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]]. -Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: - - -+ Sub projects: ++ In the process of implementing some of building blocks: - [[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. - -#+BEGIN_QUOTE -“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” -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: - -+ I2P: https://geti2p.net/en/ -+ GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/ -+ FreeNet -+ ... ++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required + and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)