Pith Number

pith:HCACXK7X

pith:2024:HCACXK7XI72YVCA5SY6UEWM7F5

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No Free Delivery Service: Epistemic limits of passive data collection in complex social systems

Maximilian Nickel

arxiv:2411.13653 v1 · 2024-11-20 · cs.AI · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HCACXK7XI72YVCA5SY6UEWM7F5}

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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	2026-07-05T09:38:35.089621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38802babf747f58a881d963d42599f2f485b4689757127debf224e94311f6bf3

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.13653 · arxiv_version: 2411.13653v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.13653 · pith_short_12: HCACXK7XI72Y · pith_short_16: HCACXK7XI72YVCA5 · pith_short_8: HCACXK7X

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/HCACXK7XI72YVCA5SY6UEWM7F5 \
  | 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: 38802babf747f58a881d963d42599f2f485b4689757127debf224e94311f6bf3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "495238b0ece5b674ccba210f233dfb347038d5d799b35df5a7777d0472196d32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-20T19:01:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9340ecc1dfb44ca688deca821c37a661b78f2fe17496745986a08d254da24e6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.13653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}