Pith Number

pith:6ISTACYI

pith:2018:6ISTACYI3XUBWDHEAEQHNUAQBN

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Growing Critical: Self-Organized Criticality in a Developing Neural System

Benjamin van den Akker, Borja Ibarz, Felipe Yaroslav Kalle Kossio, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Sven Goedeke

arxiv:1811.02861 v1 · 2018-11-07 · q-bio.NC · cond-mat.dis-nn · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ISTACYI3XUBWDHEAEQHNUAQBN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:20.567918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f225300b08dde81b0ce4012076d0100b7d24a2b2bc87fc7743a8e41739575000

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.02861 · arxiv_version: 1811.02861v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.02861 · pith_short_12: 6ISTACYI3XUB · pith_short_16: 6ISTACYI3XUBWDHE · pith_short_8: 6ISTACYI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ISTACYI3XUBWDHEAEQHNUAQBN \
  | 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: f225300b08dde81b0ce4012076d0100b7d24a2b2bc87fc7743a8e41739575000

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e0be644a93704aa23fd883b944b41a63bd5370e0900abd65d00c3c5ff489e6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn",
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-07T12:47:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28e4cf65ddeaca9a70ecce5157eab204afa488cf0abb83314fe6b17734344840"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.02861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}