It seems that libiomp5.lib has been renamed to libiomp5md.lib, so the detection was failing.
Add another search step with the new library name.

TODO: is there a more modern approach?
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* Delete `sparse.sandbox`

* delete test_sp2.py

```bash
uvx gha-tools autoupdate ./.github/workflows/ --pin=all --version-strategy=specific --write
```

Calling `lru_cache` on instance methods causes a leak. Fixed as suggested in https://rednafi.com/python/lru-cache-on-methods/

* Initial plan

* Fix issue #1554: Preserve custom thumbnails in gallery script

Modified scripts/generate_gallery.py to check if a thumbnail file already
exists before extracting from notebooks. This prevents the script from
overwriting manually-placed custom thumbnails in the _thumbnails directory.

The gen_previews() method now:
1. Checks if self.png_path exists
2. If yes, logs info message and returns early (preserving custom thumbnail)
3. If no, proceeds with extraction from notebook or uses default logo

Fixes #1554

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* Use lapack instead of `scipy_linalg.cho_solve`

* Use lapack instead of `scipy_linalg.lu_factor`

* Use lapack instead of `scipy_linalg.solve_triangular`

* Add empty test for lu_factor

* Tidy imports

* remove ndim check

Pre-commit will not install hooks by default, and Copilot has no network access to install afterwards. Pre-install during setup

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Co-authored-by: Ricardo Vieira <28983449+ricardoV94@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Grabowski <48652735+jessegrabowski@users.noreply.github.com>

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