Pith Number

pith:WXINRF6C

pith:2025:WXINRF6CEMF5HLAN4USTN62CGD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

"Check My Work?": Measuring Sycophancy in a Simulated Educational Context

Chuck Arvin

arxiv:2506.10297 v1 · 2025-06-12 · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXINRF6CEMF5HLAN4USTN62CGD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:20:21.046398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5d0d897c2230bd3ac0de52536fb4230d78c553484fc2e4e5667bc6f4bfdb831

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.10297 · arxiv_version: 2506.10297v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.10297 · pith_short_12: WXINRF6CEMF5 · pith_short_16: WXINRF6CEMF5HLAN · pith_short_8: WXINRF6C

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WXINRF6CEMF5HLAN4USTN62CGD \
  | 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: b5d0d897c2230bd3ac0de52536fb4230d78c553484fc2e4e5667bc6f4bfdb831

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0b035afeea68570ea4757b6655983b1af87b4e518038df87b69b1c82c2f1aec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-12T02:21:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d50942356b483b633f079f2cb0afc9ca977a78c8f045a9cb2946d882246e81af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.10297",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}