1 #+TITLE: Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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6 - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
7 the terms of version 3 of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] or later as
8 published by the Free Software Foundation.
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13 - Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
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27 * Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability
29 :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
31 In short, this is what I want:
33 - [[id:4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21][Perfect data storage and computation engine]]
35 - Feeds lots of complex data into your brain in intuitive to explore,
36 understand and manipulate form by extensively relying on realtime 3D
37 graphics and fast feedback loop. (including virtual reality support)
40 “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
41 Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
45 - In short: it's just a number.
46 - Many years ago inspired by the ideas of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)][Forth (programming
47 language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/fifth/doc/index.html][Fifth]]
48 (computing/programming environment).
49 - Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
50 I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
52 ** Perfect data storage and computation engine
54 :ID: 4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21
57 I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine
58 below properties in one system would be beyond awesome.
60 (That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked
63 + See: [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][Sixth data subproject]]
66 + Lisp (programming language):
68 + Code and data intercangeable.
69 + Easily self modifying.
70 + (The big Lisp idea: https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp )
72 + Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
73 + Everything is object.
74 + On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
75 + Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
77 + [[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!
79 + Hadoop (computation system):
80 + Many individual connected computers behave as one big
81 computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable.
82 + Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides
83 problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
84 + Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in
86 + Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node
87 that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network
91 + Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
93 + In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
94 - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][Data storage engine.]]
96 - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]]
97 - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html][3D engine demos]]
99 + System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
100 and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)