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 ** List of Notebooks
 
-So far, notebooks are listed alphabetically and stars shall indicate
-their difficulty (☆ = simple, ☆☆ = advanced, ☆☆☆ = sophisticated):
+So far, notebooks are listed by difficulty, indicated by stars (☆ = simple, ☆☆ = advanced, ☆☆☆ = sophisticated), then alphabetically:
 
 
 - [[file:classification.ipynb][Classification]] :: basic machine learning classification example (☆)