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 GNU Lesser General Public License or later as -published by the Free Software Foundation. +
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the 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. +
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- Svjatoslav Agejenko -
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu/ -
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu/ -
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- Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu + +
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu + +
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- Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu + +
- Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find +working code under sub-projects. + +
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+git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git + +
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+ - First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map. +
- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine. +
- Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
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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. +
- Realtime 3D graphics with immediate feedback loop. +
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Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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+ - Flexible and distributed computation and data storage. + + +
- Cross device:
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- Easily switch and/or combine computers to work seamlessly on any +tasks. + + +
- User interface, data, software, running proceses and available +computing power is not contained or limited by boundaries of any +single device. + +
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- GNU Emacs - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp +runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in Lisp. Emacs +provides text buffers that can be used to build GUI. + + +
- Eclipse IDE - In essence OSGi platform with a text +editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration, +runtime and GUI platform. + + +
- IBM Notes/Domino - Custom database engine, software development +platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and +LotusScript. + + +
- SAP ABAP - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform, +development environment and programming language. + +
- Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
- Formulated high-level vision / goal. + + +
- In the process of implementing some of building blocks. + + +
- System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :) + +
- Sixth - Parent project.
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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. -
+ - Sixth Data - Data storage and computation engine. + +
- Sixth 3D - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
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- Sixth 3D engine demos - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities. + +
+ - Program - stored instructions for execution by computer. + + +
- Process - Currently running program.
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- Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and +every dependent library. -
- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces. +
- Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at +low level in the system. + + +
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- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. +
- Easier migration of running processes between physical +computers. + -
- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson. +
- Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament +storage. + -
- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. +
- Possibility checkpoint/revert running process. + + +
- Possibility to clone/branch running process. + +
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+ - Why such name ?
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- In short: it's just a number. + +
- Many years ago inspired by the ideas of Forth (programming +language) I decided to create my own implementation 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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-2 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
+-There is nothing useful for regular people yet. +Idea is to design all encompassing, flexible and powerful virtual +environment where I can live in and very efficiently do all my +computing tasks enjoyably and with playful ease.
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: +See extensible, programmable computing environment examples. In each +case you can install or develop plugins/extensions for every purpose +imaginable.
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+I would like to create better general purpose environment with the +following properties: +
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