Pith Number

pith:2TA3GAQO

pith:2026:2TA3GAQORLB5R63NPYTQ2TNLCU

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The frame problem in quantitative practice: ontological uncertainty and epistemic humility in an age of automated inference

William Fauriat (DAM/DIF)

arxiv:2605.23614 v1 · 2026-05-22 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2TA3GAQORLB5R63NPYTQ2TNLCU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-25T02:02:22.150865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4c1b3020e8ac3d8fb6d7e270d4dab151ff06047e43f0a9ee9e6f65dbcf32442

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23614 · arxiv_version: 2605.23614v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23614 · pith_short_12: 2TA3GAQORLB5 · pith_short_16: 2TA3GAQORLB5R63N · pith_short_8: 2TA3GAQO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2TA3GAQORLB5R63NPYTQ2TNLCU \
  | 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: d4c1b3020e8ac3d8fb6d7e270d4dab151ff06047e43f0a9ee9e6f65dbcf32442

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16070589d57f494825363de46137e9b8c1c1c6e6baeecdca2f34b420f48a5bf7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T13:21:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "822f7910d28f0e3ee1bb8047e1a8c1986ccada6aee75a12eec4336138ee99ba6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}