[mark_l_watson]

I am a Lisp programmer who has mostly used Python for deep learning. I found the long runtimes for some conda operations worth while in order to have several very different environments setup. I now try to use Google Colab for as much of my deep learning work as possible, so I have thought of dropping conda and try an alternative setup because I am writing a Python book that covers deep learning but also covers a lot of use cases that I usually use Common Lisp for. I will probably take the time to try most of the options in this blog article.