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pith:4R7GD344

pith:2018:4R7GD344RNDHMCV735GCAW7FFJ

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Theoretical Impediments to Machine Learning With Seven Sparks from the Causal Revolution

Judea Pearl

arxiv:1801.04016 v1 · 2018-01-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:12.146427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e47e61ef9c8b46760abfdf4c205be52a6402a76f6726a6659d78f3b675aa6604

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04016 · arxiv_version: 1801.04016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04016 · pith_short_12: 4R7GD344RNDH · pith_short_16: 4R7GD344RNDHMCV7 · pith_short_8: 4R7GD344

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4R7GD344RNDHMCV735GCAW7FFJ \
  | 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: e47e61ef9c8b46760abfdf4c205be52a6402a76f6726a6659d78f3b675aa6604

Canonical record JSON

{
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      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-11T23:37:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c699e75560e0ec6b6b6e2fc23d1d7b63c60cb6596460b01dc76e977394f7cf4"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}