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Movie Review: Nekrotronic (2018)

8 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments peerynt

Have you heard about films sometimes having kids? I have. Case in point: Nekrotronic. This is what we get when The Sorcerer’s Apprentice moves to Australia, and decides to have a kid with The Matrix. The kid somehow ends up having a troubled childhoo...

Derek Takes Up Time Travel: A Foreword.

6 Oct 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

Derek sometimes wrote essays about things that seemed tangential, but were germane to his obsessive commitment to Time Travel. Sometimes the words bordered onto fiction: The concept of electromagnetic waves, first proposed in 1864, was met with scept...

Movie Review: Demonic (2021)

6 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments peerynt

How does one go about making movie during pandemic? Assemble a cast of about 11 actors and actresses, 3 of whom you have already worked with before, and then team up with your brother to finance the whole thing. Next, shoot in British Colombia for a...

Derek Really Has Given Up Time Travel.

26 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

Derek claimed to be quoting someone when he wrote, "The Very Powerful and the Very Stupid have it in common that they alter facts to fit their viewpoint. That is a problem when you are a fact that needs altering." It may have been someone important,...

Dereks Time Travel Note Books: VI A Short Surprise Robbery.

25 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

Derek made some notes on a problem he thought relevant to Cryptocurrency Investors. The problem is that Cryptocurrencies fluctuate in value. A perennial worry is such things as the theft of Cryptocurrency and market crashes. Which amount to the same...

Dereks Time Travel Note Books: V The Trolley Problem and Metanarrative.

24 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

Derek liked to go down the Pub. Drink Beer. Smoke fags. Talk shite. In 2020, when he first entered that Caravan in Wales, Derek spent quite a while considering the ethical problems of Blockchains and Time Travel. One of his favourite problems was tha...

Dereks Time Travel Note Books: IV Prisoners' Dilemmas With The Grandparent Paradox

23 Sep 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

Time Travellers Diaries are confusion. You might read a Diary linearly from the first to the last of a month in a year. Only later does it occur to you that actual sequence of events was 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13... not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,... - the key wit...

Dereks Time Travel Note Books: III Zero Knowledge Proof Paradoxes

21 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

For reasons not entirely clear, Derek had a rake of notes about Zero Knowledge Proofs. The notes began in the 1986 Diary, in January, and ended in the 1987 Diary in December. January 1st 1986 read as follows: A Zero Knowledge Proof has three strict r...

Derek's Time Travel Note Books: II Some Basic Principles Of Entropy And Ledgers

20 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Hubert Huzzah

Spagetti is an astoundingly good way of describing Entropy. October 22nd 1983, Big Blue Desk Diary from the Central Electricity Supply Board, and the cramped handwriting seems to be a recipe for spaghetti with a very basic sauce. It makes no immediat...

What is CRISPR? And why it should matter to you!

16 Sep 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk

What is CRISPR? And why it should matter to you! What is CRISPR? (AKA Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)  In plain language - Is a technique that lets scientists edit DNA in plants and animals. It is a family of DNA sequences...