Pith Number

pith:SBLFMZXO

pith:2025:SBLFMZXOSNBS6SPESED4FFLBBL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a Formal Theory of the Need for Competence via Computational Intrinsic Motivation

Christian Guckelsberger, Erik M. Lintunen, Nadia M. Ady, Sebastian Deterding

arxiv:2502.07423 v2 · 2025-02-11 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SBLFMZXOSNBS6SPESED4FFLBBL}

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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	2026-07-05T11:02:17.974000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90565666ee93432f49e49107c295610af6200429d3970100687a5d051b09f9d0

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.07423 · arxiv_version: 2502.07423v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.07423 · pith_short_12: SBLFMZXOSNBS · pith_short_16: SBLFMZXOSNBS6SPE · pith_short_8: SBLFMZXO

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SBLFMZXOSNBS6SPESED4FFLBBL \
  | 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: 90565666ee93432f49e49107c295610af6200429d3970100687a5d051b09f9d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4dbafe38f71bbd7043c58dc371446768d28c971089622c4ea99b92a5f9195145",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-11T10:03:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf7395a80be8f83083b3f78fd3998df3a18a390a6156e4712600ca1a23e35446"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.07423",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}