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Configuring Your JanusNode's BrainFood

How is this JanusNode run?

As an evolutionary engineer (and who isn't one these days?), you can configure your JanusNode's main function- text-generation- in two main ways: by adding or deleting words to the JanusNode's database of words (known as 'BrainFood'), and by adding, deleting, or editing the TextDNA that the JanusNode uses to string the words together. In this section we consider the simpler method, of configuring BrainFood. The more subtle and entrancing intricacies of TextDNA are developed in the next section.

Your JanusNode stores the word lists that make up its BrainFood in a folder which has has very cleverly (or perhaps by happy coincidence) been titled 'BrainFood'. That folder needs to be in the 'JanusMode Resources' folder which your JanusNode requires in order to survive. A single JanusNode is currently able to use many hundred (perhaps over a thousand- the exact number is dependent on the length of the file titles) different types of BrainFood, classified according to your whims. There are no reports that this limit has ever been reached by any existent JanusNode.

To add, delete, or change words in a BrainFood file, you can either use an ordinary text editor, or edit them by reading them into a JanusNode field. To do so, ask your JanusNode to open a file using the 'Open File' menu command. (Current early-generation JanusNodes are too stupid to open any file in this manner except a plain ASCII file.) You can also ask the robot to access any file by selecting 'Installed BrainFood' from the JanusNode pop-up menu, and clicking on the name of the file you want to see. The 'BrainFood' field displays the contents of a text file called 'Installed BrainFood' which is (and should stay) in your JanusNode folder. You can add to that file, by typing in one-line descriptions of your files. So long as the name of the word type is the first word of the line (optionally followed by a colon), then other evolutionary engineers will be able to click on the line you have added to see your word file when they are attending to the needs of their own JanusNodes.

If you edit the BrainFood files within your JanusNode, the words they hold will appear (in alphabetical order) in the text area of the JanusNode's main window. To see any other field, simple hold the mouse down on the title of the field above (that is, on the pop-up JanusNode menu). You will see a pop-up menu of all the currently available fields. The currently installed file list is only a small fraction of the total file list. Your JanusNode keeps eight BrainFood files open at a time, although it can rapidly open and close a much greater number of files on disk . It will access any field that you select, and may edit that field as you wish. If you add words, add them one to a line. Be careful not to add any empty lines (lines with a carriage return only) to any of the fields, unless for some reason you wish to use blanks as BrainFood. You will easily be able to see if there are any blank lines because they will appear first in the alphabetized list.

If you select the 'Remove Duplicates' command (under the Edit menu), you will grant your JanusNode the pleasure of automatically removing duplicate words (as well as blank lines) from the currently-visible word field. To the simple physiology of a JanusNode, this is about as much fun as eating chocolate ice cream is to most humans.  2Microsoft Equation Editor 3.04 4  MiscStatus0, ,1166 $ DataFormats0 GetSet4 , 2O\2PMwp