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pith:X5QXTHIL

pith:2020:X5QXTHILVZ66V4GFHEW7N76CKZ

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It's Hard for Neural Networks To Learn the Game of Life

Garrett T. Kenyon, Jacob M. Springer

arxiv:2009.01398 v1 · 2020-09-03 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{X5QXTHILVZ66V4GFHEW7N76CKZ}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:32:49.036155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf61799d0bae7deaf0c5392df6ffc25658c9e87f4f7bc1c5404904dc42f3a129

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.01398 · arxiv_version: 2009.01398v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.01398 · pith_short_12: X5QXTHILVZ66 · pith_short_16: X5QXTHILVZ66V4GF · pith_short_8: X5QXTHIL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X5QXTHILVZ66V4GFHEW7N76CKZ \
  | 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: bf61799d0bae7deaf0c5392df6ffc25658c9e87f4f7bc1c5404904dc42f3a129

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-03T00:47:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f80fcc382d3f1953fb53020b8d0d337cd280be9bc46bf89a27d82db4924436e7"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2009.01398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}