made some updates last week to my GAM blog: adaptive smoothing, now with plots of the smoothing parameter function

https://calgary.converged.yt/articles/adaptive_smoothing.html#bonus-plotting-the-smoothing-parameter-over-the-covariate

big thanks to Philip Dixon who asked an interesting question!

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Adaptive smoothing in mgcv – Yes! You can do that in `mgcv`!