Pith Number

pith:G2WY4NMC

pith:2025:G2WY4NMCE2R4OYNBMH2KQLBANG

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An Annotated Reading of 'The Singer of Tales' in the LLM Era

Kush R. Varshney

arxiv:2502.05148 v1 · 2025-02-07 · cs.CY · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2WY4NMCE2R4OYNBMH2KQLBANG}

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:11:10.030269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36ad8e358226a3c761a161f4a82c20698acc2d8b614e79d3edbb6a9e59db02a7

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.05148 · arxiv_version: 2502.05148v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.05148 · pith_short_12: G2WY4NMCE2R4 · pith_short_16: G2WY4NMCE2R4OYNB · pith_short_8: G2WY4NMC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G2WY4NMCE2R4OYNBMH2KQLBANG \
  | 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: 36ad8e358226a3c761a161f4a82c20698acc2d8b614e79d3edbb6a9e59db02a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25838546c967135806e393081a66f000a294a5ca9fa6ce3f31fe1c2411ba98cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-07T18:26:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67b1d9f13c6427e061e9d8ada0389e85eef449ba6bd49bc075400ea0e17aa975"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.05148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}