Add pre-commit checks about network-analysis-made-simple HOT 2 CLOSED

[Probably missing context] Wouldn't this break the HTML pages like http://ericmjl.github.io/Network-Analysis-Made-Simple/1-introduction.html ? This should clean only for student notebooks right?

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Yes, you are right, sorry about the missing context.

Here's what went through my mind.

I was hacking on my causality notes, and found that the repo had ballooned to 1/2 GB, because there was no cleaning of notebook outputs. In particular, one of the figures kept getting redrawn on the CI system such that over time, the size of the repo ballooned without me noticing. On that repo, I did a drastic change and eliminated references to static HTML notebooks, but I'm hesitant to do it here.

I think there might be a better way to handle the static HTML pages. One way would be to host them on the gh-pages branch, with force pushes on the gh-pages branch to minimize file history.

I would also consider using Sphinx or (MkDocs + MkNotebooks) to build the docs, rather than the janky script we have right now. Offloading this maintenance burden to a well-developed framework might be better.

One thing I am sure, though, is that the static HTML pages are not auto-generated, so they will be safe from a stripout of the notebooks' outputs.

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