Pith Number

pith:IDXTKE42

pith:2023:IDXTKE423H2P7FMDRUIYPDPBQZ

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Can Language Models Employ the Socratic Method? Experiments with Code Debugging

Erfan Al-Hossami, Justin Smith, Razvan Bunescu, Ryan Teehan

arxiv:2310.03210 v1 · 2023-10-04 · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IDXTKE423H2P7FMDRUIYPDPBQZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:57:30.245381Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40ef35139ad9f4ff95838d11878de186435629c8e1182e46bb3a44bfa6feb892

Aliases

arxiv: 2310.03210 · arxiv_version: 2310.03210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.03210 · pith_short_12: IDXTKE423H2P · pith_short_16: IDXTKE423H2P7FMD · pith_short_8: IDXTKE42

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IDXTKE423H2P7FMDRUIYPDPBQZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 40ef35139ad9f4ff95838d11878de186435629c8e1182e46bb3a44bfa6feb892

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc1dbc730d8dbdf519e21a2e6c857fdbcd61fddc1492d3ca7972fef33f20b239",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-10-04T23:32:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b31eebbafeac0524e05098de3105ac6ffd41f9c9de63b1d4e12193f064507929"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2310.03210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}