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* [ci] [Dask] enable Dask tests on macOS

* fix windows condition

* fix merge conflicts

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* [python-package] support Python 3.13

* update everything in the base conda environment, not just conda

* python packages now use 'cp' instead of 'cpython'

* fix python_package

* get more logs

* try to force a better solver error

* merge latest

* use build= explicitly

* restore all CI, revert debugging changes

* Update .ci/test.sh

* empty commit to re-trigger CI

* update docs conda env

* pin to specific OS and mambaforge

* Update .github/workflows/python_package.yml
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* update default Python version in .vsts-ci.yml

* remove upper-version pins

* update RTD image

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* Update Installation-Guide.rst

* Update script.js

* replace all Ninja sections with one paragraph

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* lint js code

* hotfix

* Update .editorconfig
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* Update script.js

* Update script.js

* Update script.js

* Update script.js

* replace url at build time

* manipulate with raw files

* Remove only cpu note

* Change Note for linear tree

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* add bagging by query for lambdarank

* fix pre-commit

* fix bagging by query with cuda

* fix bagging by query test case

* fix bagging by query test case

* fix bagging by query test case

* add #include <vector>

* Update include/LightGBM/objective_function.h
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* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py
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* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py
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[ci] [python-package] temporarily stop testing against scikit-learn nightlies, load lib_lightgbm earlier (#6654)

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* [docs] update and simplify installation docs

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* remove more references to CMake and GLIBC versions

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fix documentation for quantized training

[python-package] remove uses of deprecated NumPy random number generation APIs, require 'numpy>=1.17.0' (#6468)

* [python-package] Allow to pass early stopping min delta in params

* Fix test

* Add separate test

* Fix

* Add to cpp config

* Adjust test

* Adjust test

* Debug

* Revert

* Apply suggestions from code review

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