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Cleo (Mathematician)

Cleo (Mathematician)

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Comments (35)

  • DavidSJ
    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
  • snailmailman
    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.
  • epcoa
    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.
  • kylepomykala
    They found out who he was? That's amazing.
  • anon
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  • agnishom
    Granted this is an interesting curiosity, but Cleo hardly qualifies as a mathematician.Also, didn't Cleo post the problems themselves?
  • soltanov
    Treat it as an oracle problem. Posting exact closed forms without derivations forced the community to build the actual algorithmic bridges. High-effort trolling, higher-tier result.
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  • user3939382
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  • gspr
    The Wikipedia page says that in the early 2000s, he emigrated from his native Uzbekistan. Where too? Of course almost everyone would have the US as their first guess. And they'd be right. What a boon for the Americans to be the default destination for geniuses like this!But now... What have you guys done? Would the guy even be allowed to come if he wanted to?