Pith Number

pith:KQ4L6CLF

pith:2015:KQ4L6CLFDFAA75NJKVJBFLMHSZ

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A Critique of Dyadic Design

Bruce A. Desmarais, Skyler J. Cranmer

arxiv:1512.00538 v1 · 2015-12-02 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQ4L6CLFDFAA75NJKVJBFLMHSZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:25.678487Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5438bf096519400ff5a9555212ad879676c1fad63ecdabd290a6a3059d2177b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.00538 · arxiv_version: 1512.00538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.00538 · pith_short_12: KQ4L6CLFDFAA · pith_short_16: KQ4L6CLFDFAA75NJ · pith_short_8: KQ4L6CLF

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/KQ4L6CLFDFAA75NJKVJBFLMHSZ \
  | 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: 5438bf096519400ff5a9555212ad879676c1fad63ecdabd290a6a3059d2177b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b29261d455a221a0ce4561a0eebb62f80353642578362c4534d8c8cc2e5ab21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-02T01:11:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "255e85122494e790663d49270f80bdad3d710718705e4d9a98397b1ccf4fa8e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.00538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}