Pith Number

pith:FTSUQRS3

pith:2023:FTSUQRS3CHC7CRWLIFB7PNHSMF

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Imitation of Life: A Search Engine for Biologically Inspired Design

Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf, Hen Emuna, Hyeonsu Kang, Joel Chan, Nadav Borenstein, Xin Qian

arxiv:2312.12681 v1 · 2023-12-20 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTSUQRS3CHC7CRWLIFB7PNHSMF}

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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	2026-07-05T07:26:25.073627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ce548465b11c5f146cb4143f7b4f2615fa829db40652d328bd9b2283d0d505c

Aliases

arxiv: 2312.12681 · arxiv_version: 2312.12681v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.12681 · pith_short_12: FTSUQRS3CHC7 · pith_short_16: FTSUQRS3CHC7CRWL · pith_short_8: FTSUQRS3

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/FTSUQRS3CHC7CRWLIFB7PNHSMF \
  | 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: 2ce548465b11c5f146cb4143f7b4f2615fa829db40652d328bd9b2283d0d505c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aaed0549c291387edbfa9d127d1319fcbd9f9956be39b29b96798c68cb6fcbda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-12-20T00:45:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "463d85dbd0bedcec38e6a90cdd1c3e1da9d635606652d81ba23932919f9b9f06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2312.12681",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}