Pith Number

pith:2KQHOGH4

pith:2017:2KQHOGH4PZTQ2ZEYF5B64SOAYJ

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Machine Intelligence, New Interfaces, and the Art of the Soluble

Michael J. Lyons

arxiv:1707.08011 v1 · 2017-07-25 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2KQHOGH4PZTQ2ZEYF5B64SOAYJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:39:29.666403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2a07718fc7e670d64982f43ee49c0c2772ac791b8b7f2d8397212b751e50cfc

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.08011 · arxiv_version: 1707.08011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.08011 · pith_short_12: 2KQHOGH4PZTQ · pith_short_16: 2KQHOGH4PZTQ2ZEY · pith_short_8: 2KQHOGH4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2KQHOGH4PZTQ2ZEYF5B64SOAYJ \
  | 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: d2a07718fc7e670d64982f43ee49c0c2772ac791b8b7f2d8397212b751e50cfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dbb29cf5c1bd4dffa4a40d508840985db5078ee818df00e55c25167c34cd3fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-25T14:19:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1af326c0b7d5ec55b430d515c3e9fe13f49d764aa534b9e9d8c69dce38338be0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.08011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}