refactor(api)!: merge the new api changes into dev

BREAKING CHANGE: remove the following
`prototorch/functions/*`
`prototorch/components/*`
`prototorch/modules/*`
BREAKING CHANGE: move `initializers` into the `prototorch.initializers`
namespace from the `prototorch.components` namespace
BREAKING CHANGE: `functions` and `modules` and moved into `core` and `nn`

.gitignore

@@ -129,14 +129,6 @@ dmypy.json
 
 # End of https://www.gitignore.io/api/python
 
-# ProtoFlow
-core
-checkpoint
-logs/
-saved_weights/
-scratch*
-
-
 # Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/visualstudiocode
 # Edit at https://www.gitignore.io/?templates=visualstudiocode
 
@@ -154,5 +146,13 @@ scratch*
 # End of https://www.gitignore.io/api/visualstudiocode
 .vscode/
 
+# Vim
+*~
+*.swp
+*.swo
+
+# Artifacts created by ProtoTorch
 reports
 artifacts
+examples/_*.py
+examples/_*.ipynb