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Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010 https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocume

Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010 https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010

bigtones 6y ago
From reading the notebook he may be a game developer. Quite a few of the pages look like notes from algorithms on rendering a game, maybe an FPS or RTS game, and he talks about outputting to the console and sprites.
- dzdt 6y ago
  Yes, though I would say amateur game developer. Like the kid who always wanted to build a game but never did, got a "real job" doing some kind of much more boring programming. There is one point where he is musing about mapping commands to hex values within a single byte which makes me think he started programming in the 8bit era.
Cook4986 6y ago
Full-text transcription of individual notebook pages (annotated images + .json + .txt) generated with a combination of Handprint (https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint) and Microsoft's Read API: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xqi1udPOPa?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...
- CortexM4 6y ago
  This tool is good. We could also use Google Lens to extract text from the document, I tried on a few pages it captures a some more text than Handprint.
lunch 6y ago
Many of these pages look to me like he was designing a game. - p2p, client-server notes - Class definitions and implementation notes - Source code doing position calculations
- sgroppino 6y ago
  Could it be the same person? https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck He has a comment on https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/351659808490298224/#c351659808491302328 https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/35165980...
  - pvaldes 6y ago
    Different nose, I don't think so.
jpsalm 6y ago
Kind of a stretch but the crossover between jaded dev/tech people and EVE Online players is high: Mostly Harmless is an old, now defunct, EVE corp. Might be someone who ran in that that might recognize him. https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_alliances/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_allia...
- gabereiser 6y ago
  Mostly Harmless is also a difficulty level... I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice.
  - jpsalm 6y ago
    Yea it's a bit of a stretch. I haven't played EVE in ten years though and it was the first thing that popped into my mind. Looks like this was back in 2011 or so: http://www.verite.space/maps/influence/20110115.png http://www.verite.space/maps/influence/20110115.png (NW corner)
  - jonny_eh 6y ago
    > I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice. Why not? Every other avenue has been explored.
- warrenmiller 6y ago
  It's the description of Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's where that's from
  - jpsalm 6y ago
    Just reading through the notes and there are lots of EVE terms in there. They look like they're talking about something else, a new game maybe, but I wouldn't discount it just yet. (Miners, haulers, nanite )
    - clankyclanker 6y ago
jml7c5 6y ago
They seem to be a novice programmer with big ideas. Some notepads might be missing (see pg 11). I really wish the scans were better. 1-2: Ideas for a screeps AI. (Screeps seems interesting! From a brief look, it's an open-source online MMO/RTS for programmers. It's seems kind of like an AI tournament akin to Battlecode, but persistent. You write your AI in JavaScript or WebAssembly.) 3-5 (top half): Unclear. Maybe from a game idea? Maybe part of the screeps AI? 5 (bottom half) - 6 (top half): CPU time calculation for screeps? 6 (bottom half) - 10: More screeps notes. 11: A table of contents for the notepad(s). Not clear what "3s" refers to. t I think it's the name of a game he wants to make. Seems like some of those notepads might be missing? 12-15: Idea for a peer-to-peer backup/storage system. 16: "BLL", a programming/scripting language, probably short for "B... L... Language". 17-18: Nutritional wafer/bar notes. (Probably for an "all-in-one" hiking food.) The mention of "future" and "no allergies, minimum ingredients, natural ingredients" makes it unclear whether this was something he tested, or just an aspiration. 19-33: More Screeps AI notes. 34-40: "Nanites guild". Either a full game idea, or from a game he wants to make and that he provisionally titled "3s".
- ravendawn 6y ago
  Links :Transcripts of his complete notebook- https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF I’ve posted up above, but just incase you’ve missed them here’s a the transcript of his his notebook typed up

Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010 https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010

bigtones 6y ago

From reading the notebook he may be a game developer. Quite a few of the pages look like notes from algorithms on rendering a game, maybe an FPS or RTS game, and he talks about outputting to the console and sprites.

dzdt 6y ago
Yes, though I would say amateur game developer. Like the kid who always wanted to build a game but never did, got a "real job" doing some kind of much more boring programming. There is one point where he is musing about mapping commands to hex values within a single byte which makes me think he started programming in the 8bit era.

Cook4986 6y ago

Full-text transcription of individual notebook pages (annotated images + .json + .txt) generated with a combination of Handprint (https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint) and Microsoft's Read API: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xqi1udPOPa?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...

CortexM4 6y ago
This tool is good. We could also use Google Lens to extract text from the document, I tried on a few pages it captures a some more text than Handprint.

lunch 6y ago

Many of these pages look to me like he was designing a game. - p2p, client-server notes - Class definitions and implementation notes - Source code doing position calculations

sgroppino 6y ago
Could it be the same person? https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck He has a comment on https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/351659808490298224/#c351659808491302328 https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/35165980...
- pvaldes 6y ago
  Different nose, I don't think so.

jpsalm 6y ago

Kind of a stretch but the crossover between jaded dev/tech people and EVE Online players is high: Mostly Harmless is an old, now defunct, EVE corp. Might be someone who ran in that that might recognize him. https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_alliances/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_allia...

gabereiser 6y ago
Mostly Harmless is also a difficulty level... I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice.
- jpsalm 6y ago
  Yea it's a bit of a stretch. I haven't played EVE in ten years though and it was the first thing that popped into my mind. Looks like this was back in 2011 or so: http://www.verite.space/maps/influence/20110115.png http://www.verite.space/maps/influence/20110115.png (NW corner)
- jonny_eh 6y ago
  > I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice. Why not? Every other avenue has been explored.
warrenmiller 6y ago
It's the description of Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's where that's from
- jpsalm 6y ago
  Just reading through the notes and there are lots of EVE terms in there. They look like they're talking about something else, a new game maybe, but I wouldn't discount it just yet. (Miners, haulers, nanite )
  - clankyclanker 6y ago

jml7c5 6y ago

They seem to be a novice programmer with big ideas. Some notepads might be missing (see pg 11). I really wish the scans were better. 1-2: Ideas for a screeps AI. (Screeps seems interesting! From a brief look, it's an open-source online MMO/RTS for programmers. It's seems kind of like an AI tournament akin to Battlecode, but persistent. You write your AI in JavaScript or WebAssembly.) 3-5 (top half): Unclear. Maybe from a game idea? Maybe part of the screeps AI? 5 (bottom half) - 6 (top half): CPU time calculation for screeps? 6 (bottom half) - 10: More screeps notes. 11: A table of contents for the notepad(s). Not clear what "3s" refers to. t I think it's the name of a game he wants to make. Seems like some of those notepads might be missing? 12-15: Idea for a peer-to-peer backup/storage system. 16: "BLL", a programming/scripting language, probably short for "B... L... Language". 17-18: Nutritional wafer/bar notes. (Probably for an "all-in-one" hiking food.) The mention of "future" and "no allergies, minimum ingredients, natural ingredients" makes it unclear whether this was something he tested, or just an aspiration. 19-33: More Screeps AI notes. 34-40: "Nanites guild". Either a full game idea, or from a game he wants to make and that he provisionally titled "3s".

ravendawn 6y ago
Links :Transcripts of his complete notebook- https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF I’ve posted up above, but just incase you’ve missed them here’s a the transcript of his his notebook typed up