The Weekly Weird - 2019-05-24

So many links!

• Since I'm writing this from KubeCon in Barcelona, I thought it would be apropriate to start off with a relevant link. I couldn't find one because computers are boring now so here's one about the other kind of container and associated hundred-ton robots.
• If you're ever in DUMBO, pay attention to the buildings with green-bordered windows. They were all Jeohvah's Witness' headquarters back in the day. Gothamist has a really wonderful deep-dive into some of the history and the tunnels that connected them before they were sold-off.
• We talked about encoding neural nets into pneumatics, now how about encoding neural nets in free-space optical networks? Or (Ok, they don't actually encode a neural net in this one but math is math, right?) in styrofoam and microwaves.
• Good, yes please build a neural net to wirehead monkeys, I'm sure that won't come back to bite us in the ass in any way.
• A computer vision article completely unrelated to the subsequent link: Adversarial Patches.
• A fashion article completely unrelated to the previous link: OLED screeens on your giant handbag.
• Tired: hooking up a GPS to your NTP clock. Wired: building a standalone Pulse Per Second source.
• Ceph lets you embed arbitrary C++ into the OSD processes to push computation down to where the data is. Computation like, for example, Postgres query processing.
• Speaking of C++, you know what it desperately needed? A JIT compiler.
• From the petrified-hot-grits department: Municipality to ditch M$ Windows and switch to LEE-NUX.
• Those who haven't played Horizon Zero Dawn are doomed to ... build it in reality? (spoilers) Fuck.
• Up-arrow notation not enough for you? Maybe you need some E-System in your life. Careful, don't overdo it or you'll end up under a bridge, begging for coins to get another hit of Tethracross-turreted-tethrapeton.
• Two quick Posgres tidbits: Actual 1-to-1 indexes and multi-column indexes.
• Want more details about my good pal Elon's new satellites? NASA is happy to oblige.
• Moving your camera around gets you a bit more detail if you're clever but even more if you're moving it really, really, really, really fast.
• Did you notice "786k day"? Some folks did.
• Photos are an opinion of reality, not reality itself.
• Pluto has an ocean! The Moon is geologically active!