I seriously do not get what is the use case here. It just copies the files and places them in a UI directory similar, but much worse then GitHub UI.
Can someone explain?
I can echo that!
it takes any iJupyter notebooks in the repo and makes the whole thing a versioned, reproducible cloud computing environment.
a major use-case is for scientific papers and data analyses
Currently the way I share my notebooks is that I export them to html and put them on my site, for example -- [http://abhirag.in/articles/train_of_thought_1.html] but sometimes I wish I could share a notebook backed by a running environment which others could edit and run, that is my use case. Right step towards reproducibility of results I would say.
How will the running environment delivers all the dependencies? I see a lot of python notebooks that are uploaded to github repo doesn't have a requirements.txt file.