Pith Number

pith:DNOMZ6AH

pith:2020:DNOMZ6AH6BAUK6WGZUGGUFHSYZ

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What makes it possible to learn probability distributions in the natural world?

David J. Schwab, Stephanie E. Palmer, William Bialek

arxiv:2008.12279 v3 · 2020-08-27 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cond-mat.dis-nn

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DNOMZ6AH6BAUK6WGZUGGUFHSYZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:45:36.209145Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b5cccf807f041457ac6cd0c6a14f2c667856f1d6fe02fe59d2481dc6293daef

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.12279 · arxiv_version: 2008.12279v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.12279 · pith_short_12: DNOMZ6AH6BAU · pith_short_16: DNOMZ6AH6BAUK6WG · pith_short_8: DNOMZ6AH

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/DNOMZ6AH6BAUK6WGZUGGUFHSYZ \
  | 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: 1b5cccf807f041457ac6cd0c6a14f2c667856f1d6fe02fe59d2481dc6293daef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b8dcf6e65469637a42cc2fa846d40694eb4c4e5ee18c7ca40e5bbef08b6ba58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-27T17:32:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76be8237171980ef48cff475f5dffcfc3cf7ecc7ade2500b424aa0153d20f37a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.12279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}