diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index f9be646d..b5b0b708 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/miniconda:0-3
 ARG NODE_VERSION="none"
 RUN if [ "${NODE_VERSION}" != "none" ]; then su vscode -c "umask 0002 && . /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install ${NODE_VERSION} 2>&1"; fi
 
-RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-    && apt-get -y install libgl1
+# RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
+#    && apt-get -y install libgl1
 
 # Copy environment.yml (if found) to a temp location so we update the environment. Also
 # copy "noop.txt" so the COPY instruction does not fail if no environment.yml exists.
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index ddf68257..4aa09f91 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
     "dockerfile": "Dockerfile",
     "args": {
       "NODE_VERSION": "lts/*",
-      "DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT": "120",
-      "COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT": "120"
+      "DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT": "",
+      "COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT": ""
     }
   },
   "hostRequirements": { 
diff --git a/.devcontainer/environment.yml b/.devcontainer/environment.yml
index d16ba697..1edb3323 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/environment.yml
+++ b/.devcontainer/environment.yml
@@ -3,22 +3,22 @@ channels:
   - defaults
   - conda-forge
 dependencies:
-  - ipykernel=6.4.1
-  - ipython=7.27.0
-  - ipywidgets=7.6.5
-  - jupyter=1.0.0
-  - matplotlib=3.4.2
-  - numpy=1.22.3
-  - python=3.8.12ip
-  - requests=2.26.0
-  - scikit-learn=0.24.2
-  - scipy=1.6.2
-  - pip=21.0.1
-  - conda-forge::opencv=4.5
-  - setuptools=58.0.4
-  - pytorch::pytorch=1.11.0
-  - pytorch::torchtext=0.12.0
-  - pytorch::torchvision=0.12.0
-  - pytorch::torchdata=0.3.0
+  - ipykernel
+  - ipython
+  - ipywidgets
+  - jupyter
+  - matplotlib=3.9
+  - numpy=1.26
+  - python
+  - requests=2.32
+  - scikit-learn
+  - scipy=1.13
+  - pip
+  - conda-forge::opencv
+  - setuptools
+  - pytorch::pytorch
+  - pytorch::torchtext
+  - pytorch::torchvision
+  - pytorch::torchdata
   - pip:
     - -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/.devcontainer/requirements.txt b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
index 9c3e6bee..fc5e3d6d 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
+++ b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
@@ -2,21 +2,20 @@ gensim==4.3.3
 gym==0.26.2
 huggingface==0.0.1
 imageio==2.35.0
-keras==2.13.1
-nltk==3.8.2
-pandas==2.0.3
+keras==3.5.0
+nltk==3.8.1
+pandas==2.2.2
 pillow==10.4.0
 pygame==2.6.0
-scikit-image==0.21.0
+scikit-image==0.24.0
 seaborn==0.13.2
 smart-open==7.0.4
 tensorboard-data-server==0.7.2
-tensorflow-datasets==4.9.2
+tensorflow-datasets==4.9.6
 tensorflow-hub==0.16.1
-tensorflow-text==2.13.0
-tensorflow==2.13.1
-tensorboard==2.13.0
-tokenizers==0.19.1
+tensorflow==2.17.0
+tensorboard==2.17.1
+tokenizers==0.20.0
 torchinfo==1.8.0
 tqdm==4.66.5
-transformers==4.44.0
+