#+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 the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][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.
- 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.
+* Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
+ :END:
+#+BEGIN_VERSE
+Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
+ - explore, understand
+ - manipulate and compute on
+
+by extensively relying on:
+ - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Realtime 3D graphics]] with immediate feedback loop.
+ - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Flexible and distributed computation and data storage]].
+#+END_VERSE
+
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
+#+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]].
-+ Sub projects:
- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.]]
++ In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
+ - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][Data storage engine.]]
- [[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.
++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+ and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
-- 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.
+* Computation ideas
++ Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-#+END_QUOTE
++ Process - Currently running program.
+ + Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
+ every dependent library.
+
+ + Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at
+ low level in the system.
-* Features to implement in the future
+ + This allows:
+ + Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
+ already running processes.
-- 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.
+ + Easier migration of running processes between physical
+ computers.
-- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
- interfaces.
+ + Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
+ storage.
-- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
- alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
+ + Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
-- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
- processing, similar to IBM Watson.
+ + Possibility to clone/branch running process.
-- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
+* 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://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/][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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