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pith:2OFMESF7

pith:2017:2OFMESF7HMUVTXZBV2CWEVZ3PT

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Meaningless comparisons lead to false optimism in medical machine learning

Benjamin Recht, Konrad Kording, Orianna DeMasi

arxiv:1707.06289 v1 · 2017-07-19 · cs.OH

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:17.059024Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d38ac248bf3b2959df21ae8562573b7ccdd5d13edc77109dcac2d3170592d9e4

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arxiv: 1707.06289 · arxiv_version: 1707.06289v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06289

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2OFMESF7HMUVTXZBV2CWEVZ3PT \
  | 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: d38ac248bf3b2959df21ae8562573b7ccdd5d13edc77109dcac2d3170592d9e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79411bf0e72a6761872b2b25a38b7914892cea5d823d3c14896bca0136c0a4e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-19T20:39:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91c45af817e13db80262d847d080252e1b26e0c90703c5423d7d13c1484c5cce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06289",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}