hello!
I am going through the course, and I have been happily using Google Colab until today when during Lesson 3 I wanted to give a try to voila. As reported elsewhere, voila does not work on Google Colab 
So I adopted the following strategy:
- train the model on Google Colab
- export the model to
.pkland download on my local machine - work on my laptop to experiment with/develop the actual application (i.e. play around with buttons and things, voila, etc) - I know it’s not recommended, but since the model is already trained and I am not going to deal with the GPUs in my laptop I thought it was a good idea
- run the application on binder
I have a macbook pro (which I use for my work as data scientist, i.e. lots of python, notebooks, environments, etc) but I am having problems:
- I first tried to create an environment using
requirement.txtinbear_voila, but things were missing - I then tried to do what was done here, but I am still having problems: the buttons do not display correctly in the notebook and when I switch to voilà only the markdown cells are rendered, there is no button or anything
- I am now following the installing guide but the
conda ...command is literally being executed since more than one hour
Any suggestions on how to succeed? A local setup would be my preferred option since doesn’t require starting to use new services which I don’t need at this stage