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Cleo, the mathematician that tricked Stack Exchange (en.wikipedia.org)
Suppafly 12 hours ago [-]
>This investigation identified several suspicious profiles that frequently interacted with Cleo, including those of Vladimir Reshetnikov and Laila Podlesny.

Is the assumption that Vladimir posed as Laila to post the, presumably already solved problems, and then posed as Cleo to 'answer' them quickly? Wiki doesn't come out and make this accusation, but the apparent connection between the 3 accounts makes it seem like that's the case.

krackers 12 hours ago [-]
em-bee 3 hours ago [-]
in this thread someone commented

1. People love correcting other people. If you want to get an answer, don’t ask for the solution — instead, post a (possibly) wrong answer under a different pseudonym. People will then want to prove you wrong. 2. Even more so if you’re a woman.

that comment was flagged, and while on the face of it, without further context, that may be reasonable, the video in the above linked thread reveals that engaging people to post an answer was in fact the motivation for creating the cleo account, essentially supporting the statement made in the flagged comment.

ktallett 9 hours ago [-]
As someone who struggles slightly with maths despite working in physics and engineering, I am always in awe of those who can do math so easily. You do occasionally come across those who can do math with minimal intermediate steps and it is mind blowing to watch.
Suppafly 2 hours ago [-]
I think he was doing the intermediate steps, but just posting the answer to draw out other people to do the intermediate steps, to see how other people were approaching it.
dnlserrano 11 hours ago [-]
cool. reads like a Benjamin Labatut book
schaum 13 hours ago [-]
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