Advice/protection against oddities in training point sets

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Arising in PR #265 for example,

We find that sometimes emulator training is problematic for a fixed data set, and a small modification leads to massive improvements. More robust handling of the training dataest by e.g. providing more of a Cross validation procedure, or better construction of train/validation splits in the provided points may lead to more robust trainings.

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Adding this here,
Another nice thing would be to add correlation/covariance/transformations to the data processing https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/53/pca-on-correlation-or-covariance