"BaW Music Theory", for that click-bait effect.

External 16" 3840x2400 monitors are ~$150 on Amazon.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you can find them in 16", but I would like at least 24" to use it as my main monitor.

What's surprising (to me) is that there exist 3840x2560 28" IPS panel monitors on Amazon for only $150.

Yeah, I have also seen those ones. Why 3:2 instead of the more common 16:10 is a mystery to me.

> You can ask 100 people and they'll all give you a different list.

True. With 5 choices you need at least 126 people before you can guarantee that two lists are the same.

That's the upper limit, but with correlated data like this dupes can come in way sooner. I bet you don't have to ask ten people before you get a repeat with this topic.

Definitely in the pool of people that used to do this extensively. I would occasionally increase/decrease the colum limit by a few characters and try again if the words didn't align.

There's no credible reference to this. The most likely scenario is that they worked together in designing the system. They also credited their professors, Motwani and Winograd, for it.

I don't want to alarm people but I hear they now have automobiles that can outrun humans.

How much does the monitor cost?

You can get a used 15" or 17" monitor for free or next to nothing.

That kind of breaks the argument, doesn't it? You can get an old pc for free or next to nothing also.

There is no argument, or you failed to articulate it anyway. I am not battling anyone's opinion, you ask for the cost of the monitor and that kind of 17" consumer monitor that you see in picture on the parent blog post cannot be bought new anymore, the only 15 and 17" screens on the market are POS tactiles screens, industrial ones with metal frames or portable ones.

I am happily separating the cost of monitor in the desktop world anyway as user don't tend to replace them at the same frequency as the compute unit. For example, my dad only bought 5 different monitors in 40 years.

Oh no!, another paperclips game. There goes my day.

If you're the type to get absorbed by these consider staying away. I've been playing this one for years and am not at the end of its content.

Too late, already trapped.

It is well documented that the Antikythera mechanism could predict solar and lunar eclipses. The device's operation was based on 7th century BC Babylonian astronomy, specifically the Saros cycle, and Greek astronomy. The theory and data was definitely present in Thales' time.

The Antikythera mechanism is 4 centuries after Thales, during which time there was extensive additional study done by Greek astronomers. Evidence of old solar eclipse predictions seems pretty sparse; I can't figure out when the first successfully predicted solar eclipse was that we are certain about.

It doesn't. I went to Saragoza in Spain, at 8:30pm on August 12 to verify. Cool project nonetheless.