I'm adding this question because the internet had no answer. I'll answer it here. (google searching the error message led to only 2 pages, neither helpful, hopefully this is 3)
When trying to
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
I got the following error message:
numpy.ndarray size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 88 from C header, got 80 from PyObject
All subsequent error messages were misleading. the solution that solved it was to downgrade spacy
pip install spacy==2.3.0
