Acknowledgements

The developers would like to thank the NMMA developers for their valuable comments and discussions in the weekly NMMA developers call that led to the improvement of this software. Additionally, we thank Rahul Somasundaram for providing the metamodel EOS code that was used as a starting point for the development of jester, Hauke Koehn for sharing the chiEFT constraints dataset and code, Guilherme Grams for providing detailed notes on metamodel calculations. Thanks to the bachelor students Frank Snijder and Elin Jakobs for using the early version of jester in their bachelor thesis and providing feedback on the user experience. We are grateful to the support from SURF for their support and resources at the Snellius HPC cluster, which were essential for the development and testing of this software. Special thanks to Nathalie De Keyzer for her support during the development of the latest version of jester.

We acknowledge the use of generative AI tools for editing and drafting code scripts, tests, documentation, and other various content throughout the development of this software. The output of these generative AI tools have been carefully reviewed and edited by the author, and the final content is the sole responsibility of the author. If any mistakes are found, please report them to the author for correction.