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2 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability

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-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: +Examples of extendable environments where one can live in and do + almost everything:

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GNU Emacs
At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp + runtime. +
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Eclipse IDE
In essence OSGi platform with a text editor. +
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2 Vision

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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.
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    • Realtime 3D graphics with immediate feedback loop. +
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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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  • Flexible and distributed computation and data storage. +
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    • Easily switch and/or combine computers to work seamlessly on any +tasks. +
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    • User interface, data, software, running proceses etc are not +contained to any device. +
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    3 Features to implement in the future

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    3 Current status

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  • Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
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  • System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :) +
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  • Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson.
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    4 Computation ideas

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    • Program - stored instructions for execution by computer. +
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    • P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
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    • Process - Currently running program. +
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      • Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and +every dependent library. + +
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        • Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at +low level in the system. +
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          • Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking +already running processes. +
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          • Easier migration of running processes between physical +computers. +
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          • Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament +storage. +
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          • Possibility checkpoint/revert running process. +
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          • Possibility to clone/branch running process. +
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    5 Frequently Given Answers

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    • Why such name ? +
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      • In short: it's just a number. +
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      • Many years ago inspired by the ideas of Forth (programming +language) I decided to create my own implementation Fifth +(computing/programming environment). +
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      • 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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