I am not particularly fond on web based programming workflows. They feel ephemeral to my dated sensibilities. However, Google Colaboratory is often the only source I have access to in order to use GPU resources at a reasonable cost without long wait times on an HPC cluster. Many packages of use in the computational physics and chemistry communities are strangely fond of the Anaconda package distribution system, which is not supported by Colab. The snippet below has aided me several times in t...