Pith Number

pith:42TOVLJT

pith:2017:42TOVLJT7QTG5YFCSF7VYUDP7H

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Born to Learn: the Inspiration, Progress, and Future of Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks

Andrea Soltoggio, Kenneth O. Stanley, Sebastian Risi

arxiv:1703.10371 v3 · 2017-03-30 · cs.NE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42TOVLJT7QTG5YFCSF7VYUDP7H}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:36.614123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6a6eaad33fc266ee0a2917f5c506ff9c75de9b4fa20ceb385fbea8c3f16a1f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10371 · arxiv_version: 1703.10371v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10371 · pith_short_12: 42TOVLJT7QTG · pith_short_16: 42TOVLJT7QTG5YFC · pith_short_8: 42TOVLJT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/42TOVLJT7QTG5YFCSF7VYUDP7H \
  | 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: e6a6eaad33fc266ee0a2917f5c506ff9c75de9b4fa20ceb385fbea8c3f16a1f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5bf3c73a1dc4b7f29864d6768b546c193529b97fda0496cd0d6c1f31b546ec4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-30T09:10:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "428dbb4fa178b853579ba12c209963f4c626319ac0ec57c9469da40c0a3fb345"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10371",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}