Pith Number

pith:HAANFKKT

pith:2026:HAANFKKTZIMFHXHQ7X3AMEWT7W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: Correct Answer, Wrong Mechanism -- When AI Scientists Defend General Claims Their Own Data Contradicts

Steven Young Eulig

arxiv:2606.23175 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.LG

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HAANFKKTZIMFHXHQ7X3AMEWT7W}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-06-23T03:14:12.182966Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3800d2a953ca1853dcf0fdf60612d3fda3874705620e23b4cf6427ccdeb88114

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.23175 · arxiv_version: 2606.23175v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.23175 · pith_short_12: HAANFKKTZIMF · pith_short_16: HAANFKKTZIMFHXHQ · pith_short_8: HAANFKKT

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/HAANFKKTZIMFHXHQ7X3AMEWT7W \
  | 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: 3800d2a953ca1853dcf0fdf60612d3fda3874705620e23b4cf6427ccdeb88114

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87336145a3c05d5776b0822188e6894d67720f01ea4309eea5e1a1acbf606cc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T11:14:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8c2ba58ec1aefb46860d988a116dfa24e9d9c8d01dc80bb6f0b0fe6793cf33f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.23175",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}