nhartland / forma

A Lua toolkit for computational geometry on a grid

Hi there 👋

I'm Nathan and I'm currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at TMNL, where we're developing graph analytics tooling to help combat financial crime.

Previously I've been:

• A Senior Data Scientist at Dott, where I worked on the full stack of transport and mobility modelling, forecasting, optimisation and simulation.
• A consulting Data Scientist at CTS,
  where I learned a great deal about doing science in the cloud (specifically on GCP).
• A Theoretical Physics Postdoc at Oxford and NIKHEF,
  where I worked on various aspects of QCD phenomenology (mainly with the LHC in mind).
• A student at Edinburgh and Southampton,
  where I cut my teeth as a Physicist.

I'm interested in mathematics, (Bayesian) statistics and machine learning. (Pseudo)-randomness has played a large part in my career (hello MCMC), and probably as a consequence of that I like to think about procedural generation in art and games.

I quite like to build tools, both for my hobbies and professional life. While I mostly work in Python these days, I wrote a lot of HPC applications in C++ in the past, and will always have a soft spot for Lua.

forma's Issues

Integrate test suite with LuaRocks 3

LuaRocks 3 now has some in-built test capacity.
It might be useful to include the test harness in the rockspec.

Checks failing with luaunit v3.4

Assertions on pattern equality through assertEquals that worked in v3.3 are failing in v3.4 of luaunit. This is despite the metamethod eq returning true for the failing cases. E.g

assertEquals(pattern1, pattern2) -- Fails
assertTrue(pattern1 == pattern2) -- Succeeds

Maybe luaunit is not properly handling the eq metamethod?

Generate example gallery through GitHub Actions

This is currently a bit tedious and potentially easy to forget to do when releasing a new version.
Should be possible to do this in the same manner as the documentation is now built.

Tests for `pattern.packtile` and `pattern.packtile_centre`

Not currently covered by existing tests