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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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-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: -

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2 Vision

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+I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine +below properties in one system would be beyond awesome. +

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-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” -Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) +(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked +out…)

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3 Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future

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1.1.1 Computation

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  • Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
  • Lisp (programming language):
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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. +
    • Almost no syntax. +
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    • Code and data intercangeable. +
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    • Easily self modifying. +
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    • (The big Lisp idea: https://dev.to/ericnormand/the-idea-of-lisp )
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  • Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces. +
  • Smalltalk (programming language / runtime): +
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    • Everything is object.
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    • Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. +
    • On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
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    • Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson. +
    • Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the +fly.
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    • P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. +
    • GemStone/S: Awesome feature list!
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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. -

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-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. -

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  • Hadoop (computation system):
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    • MapReduce algorithm. +
    • Many individual connected computers behave as one big +computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable. +
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    • Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides +problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
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    • LLVM. +
    • Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in +resiliency.
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    • Julia programming language. +
    • Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node +that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network +efficiency).
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    4.2 Networking

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

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    2 Current status

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