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 Right now this is just a scratchpad.  I'm converting my messy ML lab environment to something with better MLOps standards
 
+Broadly, the goals are:
+- Local dev environment that's as similar as possible to production
+- A managed Jupyter Lab environment for experimentation
+- Do something sensible with features and feature extraction
+- A good mockup of an operationalized model
+- CI/CD pipeline with local access to test/verification
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 ## Requirements
 
 - docker