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pith:RC63OWBO

pith:2024:RC63OWBOSQB5VXWE5L5SAFE5XW

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How Random is Random? Evaluating the Randomness and Humaness of LLMs' Coin Flips

Jon Kleinberg, Katherine Van Koevering

arxiv:2406.00092 v1 · 2024-05-31 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:25:56.805300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88bdb7582e9403dadec4eafb20149dbd92bc9ccdb672f9ef68fb45ff31706145

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.00092 · arxiv_version: 2406.00092v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.00092 · pith_short_12: RC63OWBOSQB5 · pith_short_16: RC63OWBOSQB5VXWE · pith_short_8: RC63OWBO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RC63OWBOSQB5VXWE5L5SAFE5XW \
  | 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: 88bdb7582e9403dadec4eafb20149dbd92bc9ccdb672f9ef68fb45ff31706145

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-31T17:56:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07ccb11f0ff43d5ed7abfe75998fa12eec9e3365fb9e5e3f458fcdd7225c41c9"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2406.00092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}