Pith Number

pith:CEY264AM

pith:2017:CEY264AMDL6NU5KSERKESLZIWW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The brain as an efficient and robust adaptive learner

Alireza Alemi, Ralph Bourdoukan, Sophie Den\`eve

arxiv:1705.08031 v1 · 2017-05-22 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CEY264AMDL6NU5KSERKESLZIWW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:43:49.497167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1131af700c1afcda75522454492f28b5b9589f3eee0418846580fda1e70c7434

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08031 · arxiv_version: 1705.08031v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08031 · pith_short_12: CEY264AMDL6N · pith_short_16: CEY264AMDL6NU5KS · pith_short_8: CEY264AM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CEY264AMDL6NU5KSERKESLZIWW \
  | 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: 1131af700c1afcda75522454492f28b5b9589f3eee0418846580fda1e70c7434

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6bd9be2e11aa0c5a20562c037098339f180d70a6ba371dc0230475dff521919",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-22T22:36:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e9504f43e129a12f6782e3ca5ddb97c842919ebb1243fa6febc86d950f026f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}