Pith Number

pith:LJO6MEPJ

pith:2024:LJO6MEPJLSUEZGPHF4DLAG6HCN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Creative Loss: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Indeterminacy

Tom Holberton

arxiv:2501.10369 v1 · 2024-12-12 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LJO6MEPJLSUEZGPHF4DLAG6HCN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T10:02:26.786386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a5de611e95ca84c99e72f06b01bc713761324cbc2da320d610904553838d58e

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.10369 · arxiv_version: 2501.10369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.10369 · pith_short_12: LJO6MEPJLSUE · pith_short_16: LJO6MEPJLSUEZGPH · pith_short_8: LJO6MEPJ

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/LJO6MEPJLSUEZGPHF4DLAG6HCN \
  | 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: 5a5de611e95ca84c99e72f06b01bc713761324cbc2da320d610904553838d58e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "365121c6f7f6ecb3062447e65054d89c9d6440b2652802c19b9a3f52e8df6845",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-12T19:22:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "445ba6f97680e7aeb34fbd5b8a512260a36ee9390f6c013e0cee82b2c6876b87"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.10369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}