diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 4aa09f91..c0b61473 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "Miniconda (Python 3)",
-  "build": { 
-    "context": "..",
-    "dockerfile": "Dockerfile",
-    "args": {
-      "NODE_VERSION": "lts/*",
-      "DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT": "",
-      "COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT": ""
-    }
-  },
+  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/miniconda",
   "hostRequirements": { 
     "cpus": 4, 
     "memory": "8gb", 
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1edb3323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: ai4beg
+channels:
+  - defaults
+  - conda-forge
+dependencies:
+  - 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/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fc5e3d6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+gensim==4.3.3 
+gym==0.26.2
+huggingface==0.0.1
+imageio==2.35.0
+keras==3.5.0
+nltk==3.8.1
+pandas==2.2.2
+pillow==10.4.0
+pygame==2.6.0
+scikit-image==0.24.0
+seaborn==0.13.2
+smart-open==7.0.4
+tensorboard-data-server==0.7.2
+tensorflow-datasets==4.9.6
+tensorflow-hub==0.16.1
+tensorflow==2.17.0
+tensorboard==2.17.1
+tokenizers==0.20.0
+torchinfo==1.8.0
+tqdm==4.66.5
+