Pith Number

pith:HYLATTGR

pith:2017:HYLATTGRLRP4ADNAM42PVKQNLY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scale-invariant temporal history (SITH): optimal slicing of the past in an uncertain world

Brandon G. Jacques, Marc W. Howard, Per B. Sederberg, Tyler A. Spears

arxiv:1712.07165 v3 · 2017-12-19 · cs.AI · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HYLATTGRLRP4ADNAM42PVKQNLY}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:05.246264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e1609ccd15c5fc00da06734faaa0d5e3253ecc2853f9ee6064b28bdf42ae161

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.07165 · arxiv_version: 1712.07165v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.07165 · pith_short_12: HYLATTGRLRP4 · pith_short_16: HYLATTGRLRP4ADNA · pith_short_8: HYLATTGR

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/HYLATTGRLRP4ADNAM42PVKQNLY \
  | 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: 3e1609ccd15c5fc00da06734faaa0d5e3253ecc2853f9ee6064b28bdf42ae161

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c14c350c413e2611c235ad0efc1612795a34e559a4745152b186bdb86dd9820",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-19T19:33:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd60617c380081779a827303c45f19dc3fe99c6ffef0d9288e70fb3a2cccbb9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.07165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}