feat: Remove support for TensorFlow

[matthewfeickert]

Description

• Remove support for TensorFlow from the codebase.
  • This is a breaking change.
  • Remove the TensorFlow backend and optimize/opt_tflow.py.
• Remove use of TensorFlow from the tests.
  • Remove TensorFlow lower bounds from tests/constraints.txt.
• Remove all docs and examples that mention or use TensorFlow.
• Remove mentions of TensorFlow in all parts of the website and REAMDE except for historical purposes like the release notes, JOSS paper, and notes about early pyhf research in FAQs.

Factorizes out parts of PR #2566 and removes additional documentation pieces.

Affected issues

• Resolves Minuit and Tensorflow give different results #876
• Resolves Investigate using TensorFlow v2.0 with lazy evaluation #727
• Resolves Should support for TensorFlow be dropped given its library anti-patterns? #1595

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* Remove support for TensorFlow from the codebase.
   - This is a breaking change.
   - Remove the TensorFlow backend and optimize/opt_tflow.py.
* Remove use of TensorFlow from the tests.
   - Remove TensorFlow lower bounds from tests/constraints.txt.
* Remove all docs and examples that mention or use TensorFlow.
* Remove mentions of TensorFlow in all parts of the website and REAMDE
  except for historical purposes like the release notes, JOSS paper, and
  notes about early pyhf research in FAQs.

Co-authored-by: Giordon Stark <[email protected]>

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✅ Project coverage is 98.25%. Comparing base (8d23b82) to head (8c55665).
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