[DTE]

I respectfully disagree :) I think that the notebook environment is a nice entry-point for lots of applications. We actually use it pretty regularly to launch more sophisticated experiments / multi-node training jobs, etc using our python SDK.

You are right that versioning is still an issue and we largely punt on it by using the docker container (with layer commits on each notebook teardown) as the versioning mechanism. Maybe not the best solution but it does have it's advantages.

[jimmyvalmer]

If I were you, I'd have angrily railed against GP, so I salute the restraint. I don't approve of what you're doing but I also would happily trade positions with you (unemployed versus founding principal of a company -- any company -- even one whose mission is nonsense).