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.

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

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

> 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...