Pith Number

pith:EKLKUVWH

pith:2016:EKLKUVWHR3BEWOT3DAPHGPNWIX

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Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference

Alex Pentland, Erez Shmueli, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Julia Zheng, Nicol\'as Della Penna, Peter M. Krafft, Wei Pan, Yaniv Altshuler

arxiv:1608.01987 v1 · 2016-08-05 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.GT · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EKLKUVWHR3BEWOT3DAPHGPNWIX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:09:44.103698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2296aa56c78ec24b3a7b181e733db645e6b791524d936763015db72d9dd177ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01987 · arxiv_version: 1608.01987v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01987 · pith_short_12: EKLKUVWHR3BE · pith_short_16: EKLKUVWHR3BEWOT3 · pith_short_8: EKLKUVWH

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/EKLKUVWHR3BEWOT3DAPHGPNWIX \
  | 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: 2296aa56c78ec24b3a7b181e733db645e6b791524d936763015db72d9dd177ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40ccaa6b3eb39bf73caaed3c691b10769285a7a8b9175a20a5c38a713fe23b78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.GT",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-05T19:55:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "92cb056be2a4be33a07192d5c03be1dc5ba16ecbdbd8aa758462b4f405d65bcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}