15 +---------------------------------------+
                    |      +     +      +      +     +      |
                    |               'foo' using 2:3    A    |
                 10 |-+     A AAA A                       +-|
                    |                  AA                   |
                    |    A                                  |
                    |   A                       A           |
                  5 |-+ A                        A        +-|
                    |   AA                         A        |
                    |                                A      |
                  0 |-+   AA                          A   +-|
                    |      AA                          A    |
                    |                                  AA   |
                 -5 |-+       AAA                       A +-|
                    |           AA                          |
                    |              A                   A    |
                    |                 A  A            AA    |
                -10 |-+                      A AA AAAA    +-|
                    |                                       |
                    |      +     +      +      +     +      |
                -15 +---------------------------------------+
                   -15    -10   -5      0      5     10     15


Well,  I don't have key access to my running  server on beastie  again
yet,  but gopher.club  is back, very cool.  I'm putting  two different
phosts in here. 

* Christyotwisty's five questions!

1. Friendly-advicep

I associate  the term Friendly Advice very strongly with strong-arming
someone.  On the other hand I will sometimes present something I do as
being normative, by which I mean a good starting point on the journey.

 2. View

An aptly named Hillcrest road has some beautiful sunsets, though it is
kind of a testimony as to how telephone-lines can ruin views. 

3. Non-tech skill

Fermenting foods.  You can suddenly create tried and true good eating,
and  you  can  likely-reinvent   living  foods that  make  sense  when
presented   with  odd  factory-processed  sterile  foods.   It's  very
exciting, cheap, self-sufficient and delicious. 

4. need-frenp

Let's travel  back in time a week, and I would like to work on writing
a little  more deliberately  if I was being helped by thought -ful and
-provoking authors. 

5. Slow cookers

Slow cookers are a mystery to me.

* Random synthetic elliptical sexp

Good for checking your principal  component function is working.   The
above oval was made by 

(dump>file2 "foo" 63)
(gnuplot "foo" "2:3")

from the below code.

#+name: rotated-ellipse-points
#+begin_src lisp
(defun unit-circle-point (phase)
 (values (cos phase) (sin phase)))

(defun scale-axes (x y sx sy)
 (values (* sx x) (* sy y)))

(defun rotate-point (x y phase)
(values  (- (* x (cos phase)) (* y (sin phase)))
 (+ (* y (cos phase)) (* x (sin phase)))))

(defun      random-phase      (&optional      (resolution       1000))
(let ((2pi/res (/ pi resolution  1/2)))
 (values (* 2pi/res (random resolution)))))

(defun eg (&optional (k 32))
(append  (list (list "n" "x" "y" "a"))
 (let ((N k) (rot (random-phase))
(sx (random  20)) (sy (random 20)))
(loop  for n from 1 to N
 for a = (random-phase)
 collecting (multiple-value-bind (x y)
 (unit-circle-point a)
 (multiple-value-bind (x y)
 (scale-axes x y sx sy)
 (multiple-value-bind (x y)
 (rotate-point x y rot)
 (list n x y a ))))))))

(defun dump>file1 (file k)
(with-open-file  (out file :direction :output)
 (format out "(~{(~{~a~^ ~})~^~%~})~%"
 (eg k))))

(defun dump>file2 (file k)
(with-open-file  (out file :direction :output)
 (format out "~{~{~a~^ ~}~^~%~}~%"
 (eg k))))

(defun gnuplot (file using)
 (uiop:run-program
 (format nil
 "gnuplot -e ~
\"set terminal dumb; ~
set size square; ~
plot '~a' using ~a;\""
 file using)
 :output t))

#+end_src

* My gratitude for my chatgpt-phost [1] responses [2].

Thank  you  again everyone  for your thinking  and writing   about  my
thinking and writing about chatgpt.  I am honored to be the subject of
that piece  by mhcat.  It was clearly  identified  (not just be mhcat)
that my writing settled into polemic against  surveillance  capitalism
(alright, specifically mhcat). 

While writing that phost, I did have the idea of narratively conveying
real-life   high dimensional  data, since AIs like chatgpt   train  on
high-dimensional data. 

A graph plot called a biplot is made out of high dimensional data as a
way for humans  to visually  reason about trends in it, which  is what
I'm working together with the above oval. 

* Phetch postscript

phetch  is an amazing  browser  and warrants  its own phost.   I would
recommend  it over anything  else now I have given  it a proper   try.
Thank   you  to  jns, tomasino  and everyone   else  for  the  low-key
endorsements I eventually phollowed. 

[1]
gopher://beastie.sdf.org:7991/0phlogs/do-not-touch-chatgpt.txt
[2]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/mhcat/phlog/20230201T083244--responding-to-screwtapes-chatgpt-essay__phlog_political-thought_programming_reading_sdf.txt
[2] again
Mastodon responses at
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape/109777217235338512
[2] [3]
Jamesp had an interesting take, to him the accessibility of running it
(gpt-2) himself under a permissive license, with control of  his  data
and its application was what was key.
https://mstdn.starnix.network/@james
[2] [4]
stug, anthonyg, paolo, xiled [list of everygopher]