Thank goodness, now I know my private keys have not been leaked ...

British politicians are notorious sloppy eaters, lots of crumbs to be had.

RBFs are splendid, but you don't need to have them "decay with distance", indeed, ones which don't (mutliquartics etc) often have better approximation properties and better-conditioned linear systems to solve, give them a go! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09557...

Interesting, will try it out. Thank you!

Tbh, I tried several different functions, but nothing worked better than inverse quadric function. Though, I'm not sure if I tried anything without decay

One interesting group is the compactly supported RBFs, for example those of Wendland https://math.iit.edu/~fass/603_ch4.pdf the advantage being that the resulting linear systems are sparse, useful when you have lots of points to interpolate and "gaps" is not an issue.

As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be sightings of exotic predators (puma, leopard) by little old ladies in the next weeks ...

I wish there were more people like this.

Peak HN

Off by 2, not so bad

The "off by 1" errors grow exponentially these days.

Worse than that, since the nth power of 1 should still be 1. Except when you're running Microsoft-ware, of course.

That's air-conditioning rather than alternating-current (both legal in the UK).

A friend and I bought a car with a busted door for £100 some years ago, we got a cheap replacement door, incompetently resprayed it to be roughly the colour of the rest of the car and sold it, for £100 :-|

Anyone who would run a random binary downloaded from the internet will probably be using the password "password"