Pith Number

pith:3B3DKH4X

pith:2018:3B3DKH4XI3KVNQBZAUW4PDJAPU

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(Anti)Fragility and Convex Responses in Medicine

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

arxiv:1808.00065 v1 · 2018-07-31 · q-bio.QM · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3B3DKH4XI3KVNQBZAUW4PDJAPU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:08.850728Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d876351f9746d556c039052dc78d207d0c543865dbee74d0482e35a371a6da61

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.00065 · arxiv_version: 1808.00065v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.00065 · pith_short_12: 3B3DKH4XI3KV · pith_short_16: 3B3DKH4XI3KVNQBZ · pith_short_8: 3B3DKH4X

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/3B3DKH4XI3KVNQBZAUW4PDJAPU \
  | 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: d876351f9746d556c039052dc78d207d0c543865dbee74d0482e35a371a6da61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b88e9c4d88688f7c450e38e76eb7d80d573d6234e767459c7e95663e2b300d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-31T20:35:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7948d9bc6a6a9602ae6e0ebfca938af92a7059f83b65089087e096fb17fe7b77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.00065",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}