Pith Number

pith:7WKQWESQ

pith:2017:7WKQWESQZOBTLYXDKFEXL3765K

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On the geometry of Bayesian inference

Bradley J. Barney, Garritt L. Page, Miguel de Carvalho

arxiv:1701.08994 v2 · 2017-01-31 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7WKQWESQZOBTLYXDKFEXL3765K}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:06.209915Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd950b1250cb8335e2e3514975effeea83d54a4d39f641fc0f5a74be449c1490

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08994 · arxiv_version: 1701.08994v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08994 · pith_short_12: 7WKQWESQZOBT · pith_short_16: 7WKQWESQZOBTLYXD · pith_short_8: 7WKQWESQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7WKQWESQZOBTLYXDKFEXL3765K \
  | 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: fd950b1250cb8335e2e3514975effeea83d54a4d39f641fc0f5a74be449c1490

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "929e71a6669ba330ee500eb672893260781a75aece94aa1e0a25434c00ba2c20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-31T11:16:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a611ae0d5f558c74826ed53192097c6acfc0e7b01f1736aa9a781822618e4c57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}