more note updates

notes.rst

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ new string literals
 - u8"I'm a UTF-8 string."
 - u"This is a UTF-16 string."
 - U"This is a UTF-32 string."
+- R"\w+" instead of "\\w+"
+    - doesn't seem to work with my compilers
 
 tuple fun
 =========
@@ -72,8 +74,12 @@ regular expressions and threading
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 - this is where the burning starts to set in ...
-- compile with gcc to see how awesome that is
-- compile with clang
+- threading works ... mostly
+    - compiles and runs with both compilers
+    - run stress
+- regex examples
+    - compile with gcc to see how awesome that is
+    - compile with clang
         - instructions on building this found `here`_
 
 .. _`here`: http://solarianprogrammer.com/2011/10/16/llvm-clang-libc-linux/