# splines (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover splines. Page: Feed: --- ## [Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans](https://wordsandbuttons.online) _2026-07-02 · Words and Buttons Online_ Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive. As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for about a year and, for the time being, am not planning to do so. The reason is that I’m working two jobs mid-war, and I… ## [Gauss–Seidel visually explained](https://wordsandbuttons.online/gauss_seidel_visually_explained.html) _2025-09-21 · Words and Buttons Online_ An interactive demo of the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear equation systems. When and why does it work? And why, when you flip the equations, it suddenly stop working? You can now play and see. ## [Why learn about the golden-section search](https://wordsandbuttons.online/why_learn_about_the_golden_section_search.html) _2025-06-29 · Words and Buttons Online_ An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.