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pith:JSC7ZYCC

pith:2025:JSC7ZYCCVAMVGKQPMMVBBF7MCE

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A Comment On "The Illusion of Thinking": Reframing the Reasoning Cliff as an Agentic Gap

Kannan Natarajan, Sheraz Khan, Subha Madhavan

arxiv:2506.18957 v1 · 2025-06-23 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:26:07.204968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c85fce042a819532a0f632a1097ec111dbf7334dc8f2e2b55417b9407035acb

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.18957 · arxiv_version: 2506.18957v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.18957 · pith_short_12: JSC7ZYCCVAMV · pith_short_16: JSC7ZYCCVAMVGKQP · pith_short_8: JSC7ZYCC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JSC7ZYCCVAMVGKQPMMVBBF7MCE \
  | 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: 4c85fce042a819532a0f632a1097ec111dbf7334dc8f2e2b55417b9407035acb

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-23T17:14:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "079e43b4963bca92fe0daa42250df62f3270f5fc0cfa6efa99926860a16b6c87"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}