Pith Number

pith:CGFXJ5WV

pith:2017:CGFXJ5WVHDFRKKAZ73W2R2HEEY

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Machine Learning and the Future of Realism

Cliff Hooker, Giles Hooker

arxiv:1704.04688 v1 · 2017-04-15 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CGFXJ5WVHDFRKKAZ73W2R2HEEY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:17.942079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

118b74f6d538cb152819feeda8e8e426002e991b237bb1718c2aaac798742750

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04688 · arxiv_version: 1704.04688v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04688 · pith_short_12: CGFXJ5WVHDFR · pith_short_16: CGFXJ5WVHDFRKKAZ · pith_short_8: CGFXJ5WV

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/CGFXJ5WVHDFRKKAZ73W2R2HEEY \
  | 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: 118b74f6d538cb152819feeda8e8e426002e991b237bb1718c2aaac798742750

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79f591b85192f750c0207bfaad6fa5114e0850dcc4ae9e93f26cb9ad15cf5529",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-15T20:49:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6702c3a2e386b8c076774015a73c41d73b9ae2ab84ab4d6439957abcf2e6486e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}