Pith Number

pith:O6QWBLG2

pith:2016:O6QWBLG245HASKNG2YI5KSDKGO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Robust information propagation through noisy neural circuits

Alexandre Pouget, Eric Shea-Brown, Joel Zylberberg, Peter E. Latham

arxiv:1608.05706 v2 · 2016-08-19 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O6QWBLG245HASKNG2YI5KSDKGO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:08.028617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

77a160acdae74e0929a6d611d5486a33b668aa4789e9d3fad699efba6d71b0cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05706 · arxiv_version: 1608.05706v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05706 · pith_short_12: O6QWBLG245HA · pith_short_16: O6QWBLG245HASKNG · pith_short_8: O6QWBLG2

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/O6QWBLG245HASKNG2YI5KSDKGO \
  | 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: 77a160acdae74e0929a6d611d5486a33b668aa4789e9d3fad699efba6d71b0cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79f5d7104bae035f3b4491004c661b840b8168b553e0fe03ef78f0c0291e409f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-19T19:52:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c818c15cf38bc1d57e2d4ef0b1f548c9f53aa9080e312e6af64791d5dbf764d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}