Pith Number

pith:E5VDMWYJ

pith:2024:E5VDMWYJATQYEB5RMNUBF4UDA7

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Scaffold or Crutch? Examining College Students' Use and Views of Generative AI Tools for STEM Education

Carl Wieman, Karen D. Wang, L'Nard Tufts II, Nick Haber, Shima Salehi, Zhangyang Wu

arxiv:2412.02653 v1 · 2024-12-03 · physics.ed-ph · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5VDMWYJATQYEB5RMNUBF4UDA7}

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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	2026-07-05T09:43:53.227247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

276a365b0904e18207b1636812f28307da99215e64b24da05db83133bc0b8fd0

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.02653 · arxiv_version: 2412.02653v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.02653 · pith_short_12: E5VDMWYJATQY · pith_short_16: E5VDMWYJATQYEB5R · pith_short_8: E5VDMWYJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E5VDMWYJATQYEB5RMNUBF4UDA7 \
  | 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: 276a365b0904e18207b1636812f28307da99215e64b24da05db83133bc0b8fd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "15e5d9d71ea7b86af0b0023d866a74d7eb5119cacf32f52a5d498ab914dde989",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-03T18:27:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7db686ef9f9591de1752cec65043abd026eca75d83d03cfd34f5c80a003bfa2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.02653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}