Updated README and projects with details of APIs and costs, and common setup troubleshooting

week1/day1.ipynb

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     "from openai import OpenAI"
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+    "# Connecting to OpenAI\n",
+    "\n",
+    "The next cell is where we load in the environment variables in your `.env` file and connect to OpenAI.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Troubleshooting if you have problems:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "1. OpenAI takes a few minutes to register after you set up an account. If you receive an error about being over quota, try waiting a few minutes and try again.\n",
+    "2. As a fallback, replace the line `openai = OpenAI()` with `openai = OpenAI(api_key=\"your-key-here\")` - while it's not recommended to hard code tokens in Jupyter lab, because then you can't share your lab with others, it's a workaround for now\n",
+    "3. Contact me! Message me or email ed@edwarddonner.com and we will get this to work.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Any concerns about API costs? See my notes in the README - costs should be minimal, and you can control it at every point."
+   ]
+  },
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