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What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by DebtDeflation »

tim333 wrote: post #72
gehwartzen wrote: post #5

After seemingly acting so carefully right before and after the shooting I’m perplexed as to why he had so much evidence still on him (Gun/silencer, Fake ID, manifesto) during the arrest. One would think he would have discarded or destroyed those things as soon as possible after the incident.

With is face pretty much being captured on camera in the hostel and in an Uber I'm not sure there was much point hiding it. He was going to get caught shortly whatever he did.

If he ditched the gun, fake IDs and any other evidence he had tying him to the crime and just gave the cops his real id and denied being in NYC recently, it would have made it much harder to prosecute. Without any physical evidence, he just looked like the shooter.

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Post by game_the0ry »

gehwartzen wrote: post #5

After seemingly acting so carefully right before and after the shooting I’m perplexed as to why he had so much evidence still on him (Gun/silencer, Fake ID, manifesto) during the arrest. One would think he would have discarded or destroyed those things as soon as possible after the incident.

Subconsciously, he wanted to be caught.

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Post by mcshaner1 »

breadwinner wrote: post #156

He gave the Unabomber’s manifesto four stars on Goodreads, and described Unabomber as a "political revolutionary". Excerpts from his review: "It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out." "He was a v…

For anyone reading stuff like this, read Ellul’s Technological Society instead. Optionally followed by “The Meaning of the City.” I haven’t read the manifesto and don’t plan to; it apparently cited Ellul a fair amount and Ellul seems like a saner guide.

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by game_the0ry »

Check out the PR comments on one of his projects on GH.

> 'Missing Implementation for "Deny, Defend, Depose"'

"Could you clarify:

What machine learning model is best suited for the "Deny" phase? (I'm guessing a GAN for plausible deniability?) Is "Defend" using a reinforcement learning approach with adversarial training? For "Depose," are we looking at a classification problem or full-blown unsupervised chaos?

A README section explaining how to integrate this strategy into Halite III bots would be invaluable to the community. Until then, I feel like I'm shooting blanks here."

https://github.com/lnmangione/Halite-III/issues

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Post by Wherecombinator »

tomlockwood wrote: post #321
hi41 wrote: post #252

It’s one thing to be upset and angry about capitalism and businesses. How does a person go from there to being able to commit premeditated murder because it means seeing a human being die in agony. That’s a jump of several magnitudes. It’s terribly sad.

I wonder how many denied claims both pumped up his yearly bonus and resulted in an innocent person dying in agony? This CEO may as well have pulled the trigger.

Exactly. The only difference is the layers of abstraction.

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Post by 77pt77 »

breadwinner wrote: post #44

He was carrying all of the evidence with him, including the fake ID he used at the hostel, the gun & suppressor, mask, and even a handwritten manifesto that points to his motivation. It seems he wanted to be found.

> including the fake ID he used at the hostel

I've stayed at that place multiple times, though years ago.

They did check ID, but never copied it.

I wonder how they knew it was fake.

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Post by hughesjj »

aorloff wrote: post #207
breadwinner wrote: post #44

He was carrying all of the evidence with him, including the fake ID he used at the hostel, the gun & suppressor, mask, and even a handwritten manifesto that points to his motivation. It seems he wanted to be found.

The only part I don't get now is the cell phone I assumed he had some help with the timing via the burner phone But this all looks very lone wolfish now

I still don't get how he knew where the guy would be

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by bikamonki »

bikamonki wrote: post #344
ipaddr wrote: post #341

His photo doesn't match the chin we saw. Something doesn't add up.

Easy: run both pics through a biometric check

I did it for you (using AWS compare faces)

Full face pic compared to taxi pic: 81.94% similar

Full face pic compared to hotel pic (not smiling): face matches not found

Full face pic compared to hotel pic (smiling): face matches not found

I am guessing the quality of the hotel pics I found online is too bad for a good test and/or biometrics work better comparing eyes than other face features.

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Post by fsckboy »

breadwinner wrote: post #44

He was carrying all of the evidence with him, including the fake ID he used at the hostel, the gun & suppressor, mask, and even a handwritten manifesto that points to his motivation. It seems he wanted to be found.

or, he didn't think he would get caught and his plan to was move on to victim #2.

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Post by griffzhowl »

aorloff wrote: post #207
breadwinner wrote: post #44

He was carrying all of the evidence with him, including the fake ID he used at the hostel, the gun & suppressor, mask, and even a handwritten manifesto that points to his motivation. It seems he wanted to be found.

The only part I don't get now is the cell phone I assumed he had some help with the timing via the burner phone But this all looks very lone wolfish now

Yeah, the timing is a question I still have. At first it sounded like he was only there a few minutes before the CEO appeared. Later information sounds like he might have been hanging around outside for longer. I haven't seen a knowledgable evaluation of how plausible it is that he would have known where Thompson was going to be based only on public information.
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