Hopefully helpful stuff for writing prototypes of programs for kernel–based methods, in particular for radial kernels or matrix–valued divergence–free kernels. The focus is on MATLAB programming. None of the programs is optimized for anything, in particular not for speed. 1 Basics We assume x, y to be vectors in R d , and we consider radial kernels of the form K(x, y) = φ(x − y 2), for all x, y...