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+you need uhhhh
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+pytorch (ideally with gpu acceleration), huggingface transformers and probably a bunch of other python libraries 
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+i should probably write an actual requirements.txt some time but like xd
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+you also need mrlar's azurlanedata repo, with the root dir renamed to "mrlar"
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