Pith Number

pith:DS7DDB4D

pith:1996:DS7DDB4DED56DKXIOC3WUGLOKQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Entropy and Information in Neural Spike Trains

Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, Roland Koberle, S. P. Strong, William Bialek

arxiv:cond-mat/9603127 v2 · 1996-03-18 · cond-mat · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DS7DDB4DED56DKXIOC3WUGLOKQ}

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:41.267509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1cbe31878320fbe1aae870b76a196e543a6c979a1c25a33eafa4015b8e4a9b75

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9603127 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9603127v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9603127 · pith_short_12: DS7DDB4DED56 · pith_short_16: DS7DDB4DED56DKXI · pith_short_8: DS7DDB4D

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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/DS7DDB4DED56DKXIOC3WUGLOKQ \
  | 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: 1cbe31878320fbe1aae870b76a196e543a6c979a1c25a33eafa4015b8e4a9b75

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f2ff307716da53034dbac03ce89222eaefd3b0184c6413308e53cb63378e98c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-18T21:04:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16983c1c6c20339cf1e5c02343ee6a4fc9fc8d46d50aab2cebc3e6d648cce9b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9603127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}