X-Git-Url: http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Findex.org;h=118bfb2ef00b3ae80a2c1f5faf9e1ac3fef43ba3;hp=e166a98dfc0ed0726fc6280e75dd4442ad35c6ac;hb=2feef58c553d58650c5ffb8e5d92ca08a8474687;hpb=0c433a6018b747a48fde1d94c7466182e762883f diff --git a/doc/index.org b/doc/index.org index e166a98..118bfb2 100644 --- a/doc/index.org +++ b/doc/index.org @@ -24,70 +24,74 @@ #+HTML_HEAD: pre {background-color: #111; color: #ccc;} #+HTML_HEAD: +* Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability + :PROPERTIES: + :ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f + :END: +In short, this is what I want: + +- [[id:4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21][Perfect data storage and computation engine]] + +- Feeds lots of complex data into your brain in intuitive to explore, + understand and manipulate form by extensively relying on realtime 3D + graphics and fast feedback loop. (including virtual reality support) + + #+BEGIN_QUOTE + “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” + Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) + #+END_QUOTE + + +** Perfect data storage and computation engine + :PROPERTIES: + :ID: 4224d52c-2ee1-411a-bd89-77c286322b21 + :END: +I love thease existing solutions and properties: + ++ Lisp (programming language): + + Almost no syntax. + + Code and data intercangeable. + + Easily self modifying. + ++ Smalltalk (programming language / runtime): + + Everything is object. + + On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable. + + Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the + fly. + ++ Relational databases: + + Transactional + + Indexable / Quickly searchable + ++ Git (version control system) + + Versionable + + Branchable / mergeable. + + Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication. + ++ Hadoop (computation system): + + Many individual connected computers behave as one big + computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable. + + Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides + problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined. + + Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in + resiliency. + + Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node + that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network + efficiency). + + +I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine +above properties in one system would be beyond awesome. + +(I have not solved it yet..) * Current status -There is nothing useful for regular people yet. ++ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]]. -Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: - - -+ Sub projects: ++ In the process of implementing some of building blocks: - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.]] - [[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. - -- 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. - -#+BEGIN_QUOTE -“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” -Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) -#+END_QUOTE - -* Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future -- 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. - -- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user - interfaces. - -- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an - alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. - -- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and - processing, similar to IBM Watson. - -- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. - -* Technical capabilities to have -Perfect computing system must have advanced data visualization, -storage, transmission and computation capabilities. - -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. -** Computing -Efficient distributed computing is required. - -Possible solutions: -+ MapReduce algorithm. -+ LLVM. -+ Julia programming language. -+ ... -** Networking -P2P secure, fast and reliable networking is required. - -Possible solutions: - -+ I2P: https://geti2p.net/en/ -+ GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/ -+ FreeNet -+ ... ++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required + and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)