Code cleanup needed to replace the notebooks with regular python files

The work for this repo started as a skunkworks project done over the holidays in the Winter of 2024 and so at the time this was just a bunch of notebooks but now that it has transformed into a formal open-source project with a ton of functionality and a bunch of roadmap items, the notebooks have turned unwieldy!

We need to replace the notebooks with regular python scripts and plus there is a whole bunch of code cleanup that needs to happen to replace global imports, use type hints everywhere, optimizations of functions, etc., the list is long.

Assigning this to myself for now, and would create issues for specific items.