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A Random Walk Street by Burton Malkiel. Very easy to understand and entertaining to read too. The book is basically divided into 2 parts, the 1st about the arguments for market efficiency, and 2nd about practical steps in investing considering the conditions explained in part 1. In it the author argued that there is very little chance for anyone to systematically beat the market, and so the best way to make money in the stock market (in the long run) is by following the market (e.g. by buying an index fund).

Also equally important and related to the article is messages on exceptions raised by libraries used by developers. I think this is one of the primary reasons why I found some Python's open sourced libraries like Numpy or Pandas easy to learn. Most of the messages when an exception is raised are specific and helpful in helping me fixing the error.

I think what you're looking for is Ctrl+O, which allows you to exit insert mode, insert ONE command only (e.g. 4k), and immediately enter the insert mode again

A more interesting problem would be to train an n x n sudoku and test the model on an m x m sudoku where m < n, or even m > n. Does it make sense?

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Very interesting. I have a few questions:

What challenges did you encountered the most when teaching kids to code?

Do you have any suggestion on how to teach coding to kids from non-english-speaking countries? I think it would be much more challenging since most programming languages are written in english, and these kids are not fluent in english. Or, is it better if I write a new programming language using my native language?

While the study had a large margin of error, the simulations suggest there is only a two percent probability that the Cold Spot formed randomly

I'm not an expert at astronomy, but a 2% chance of something occuring in the universe seems to be a pretty big probability. Also, what does it means for two universes to "collide" with each other?