What's the point? But it's funny!

Sometimes I wonder what the point it and I think "Does someone actually get paid for this?" This is one of those times. I can admit that it's fun to solve puzzles, but usually it's done on my off time and my life isn't defined by it. I guess it's kind of cool to solve a puzzle where the solution "is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan" but it's mostly funny to me, especially when they admit "The calculation does not have any obvious practical applications" (at least currently).