Philip Goetz wrote:
Haven't been googling. But the fact is that I've never actually /seen/ one in the wild. My point is that the market demand for such simple and useful and cheap items is low enough that I've never actually seen one.
Check any hardware store, there's a whole shelf. I bought one for my last apartment. I see them all over the place. They're really not rare.
Moral: in AI, the state of the art is often advanced far beyond what people think it is.
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