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There was a fellow named Ben Bellamy, who was a software developer, on LinkedIn at one time with a photo that closely matched this guy. I believe he was, in fact, in the New York area but I cannot remember for sure,
I did some poking around tonight but couldn't pull up his LI profile again.
Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010
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".
Interesting years later its here on HN. I guess the guy didnt have anyone cause if he did his friends or family would have known by now.
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Uh, we don't know for sure he didn't ever commit a crime, your logic is flawed.
The point is there is no evidence of a crime. There is no reason for the public to dig into this person’s life with such fervor.
The police poster mentioned "was only able to hike 10 miles a day". Makes me think it's health related, 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker. Most aim to do that amount by 10 in the morning...
> 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker It depends on the weight of what you carry with you.
This was without any real special training.
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Required reading, IMO: https://screeps.com/forum/topic/2937/a-strange-request-for-h... I've spent a few days looking into this and haven't been able to find anything. There's also a big thing about "algae pools" "stock markets", etc, which didn't seem to be about Screeps. I tried to find games that had these mechanics, and ended up spending a bunch of time looking through Spacestation 13 forums, but I'm leaning towar…
Algae pool, in the context of a list that contains "balanced nutri*nt? foods", is probably a food based in Spirulina. A green algae used in aquaculture. This seems to me like a check list [1] to assure that he didn't forgot anything after leaving a zone. Is relevant because the man has been most probably poisoned. It was not a fast poison and it was painful but not too alarming. Not a bee, a wasp or a Bothrops. A pla…
it reads "algae pool (area)", so is a game and all that I wrote above about Spirulina is wrong, as jml7c5 pointed correctly
Not even a passing mention of the privacy questions at stake here. I don’t fault the police for seeking answers, but every self-nominated amateur sleuth isn’t due an answer about the identity of someone who in all likelihood wanted to live privately and never committed a crime.
In any context I can think of privacy only exists while someone is alive. Once you are dead your life history sort of exists in the public domain.
There are two remarkable things that I saw in the autopsy report -
First, there were "abundant" feces in his intestines, which suggests to me (though I am not a doctor) that he didn't starve to death.
Second, he had an abdominal scar, which might be pretty identifying to someone who knew him, and also supports the theory of a recurring cancer or similar illness.
I looked at this a year ago but unfortunately lost the note I kept. There was a fellow named Ben Bellamy, who was a software developer, on LinkedIn at one time with a photo that closely matched this guy. I believe he was, in fact, in the New York area but I cannot remember for sure, I did some poking around tonight but couldn't pull up his LI profile again.
That simply cannot be just a coincidence.