bug: pymc nuts failing with ValueError

[janfb]

when using pymc NUTS with python 3.10 and pymc > 5.20.0 we get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/janteusen/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.11.11-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 1045, in _bootstrap_inner
      self.run()
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/live.py", line 32, in run
      self.live.refresh()
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/live.py", line 223, in refresh
      self._live_render.set_renderable(self.renderable)
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/live.py", line 203, in renderable
      renderable = self.get_renderable()
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/live.py", line 98, in get_renderable
      self._get_renderable()
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/progress.py", line 1553, in get_renderable
      renderable = Group(*self.get_renderables())
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/progress.py", line 1558, in get_renderables
      table = self.make_tasks_table(self.tasks)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pymc/util.py", line 683, in make_tasks_table
      table.add_row(
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pymc/util.py", line 688, in <genexpr>
      else call_column(column, task)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pymc/util.py", line 659, in call_column
      return column(task)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/progress.py", line 542, in __call__
      renderable = self.render(task)
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/Users/janteusen/qode/sbi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rich/progress.py", line 638, in render
      _text = self.text_format.format(task=task)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  TypeError: unsupported format string passed to numpy.ndarray.__format__
  
    warnings.warn(pytest.PytestUnhandledThreadExceptionWarning(msg))

-- Docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/capture-warnings.html
Run with --bm flag to see benchmark results.
============================================================================================== short test summary info ===============================================================================================
FAILED tests/mcmc_test.py::test_getting_inference_diagnostics[nuts_pymc] - TypeError: unsupported format string passed to numpy.ndarray.__format__

we are skipping all tests for this for now (see #1487) but we have to look into this or wait for a fix in pymc.

[janfb]

this seems to be a duplicate of #1397