Cleo (Mathematician)

The page states:

In late 2023, a Reddit user known as "evilscientist311" conducted a comprehensive analysis of Cleo's activity patterns and interactions with other Stack Exchange accounts.

However, I and others were on the scent at least as far back as April, 2023. See for example: https://x.com/TheDavidSJ/status/1650957407902658571

I think there are some interesting parallels between what the Cleo account did, and what the large AI companies are doing now with some of the proofs for previously unsolved theorems.

There may be some value in the answers, but for some the value is in the understanding of how to get from the problem to the solution.

I wouldn't call myself a mathematician, but I encountered a few problems in my CS classes where I could work through the proof by hand, see that an algorithm works, and even mathematically prove it, but yet still didn't feel like I understood why it worked, or how the algorithm was invented/derived. But for many, the fact that it did work was enough.

Were any of the 39 answers to a question that was not likely to be from a sock puppet?

Doesn’t necessarily make the solutions less impressive, but it’s kind of a relevant detail that is left out in the Wikipedia summary.

Blew up on Reddit yesterday.

> Wild to see a story I played a major part in on the front page… The first post outlining the theory and evidence was made by me a few years ago

> I gathered enough data from stackexchange, did some data visualizations, and drafted a post outlining my analysis. However, I didn't know a place where this could have been published anonymously to a large audience, so I presented it in a meme format, listing the evidence in the comment section

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wyzrji/comm...

They found out who he was? That's amazing.

Caall me nao babiez