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pith:MZ3BPTPA

pith:2011:MZ3BPTPACR5GWX3CY2M2MFT4GL

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A Philosophical Treatise of Universal Induction

Marcus Hutter, Samuel Rathmanner

arxiv:1105.5721 v1 · 2011-05-28 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT

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Hierarchical Solomonoff Induction: An Unbounded Machine Learning Model

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:01:46.788931Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

667617cde0147a6b5f62c699a6167c32e5397d4ce17dd90a90780b28659376e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.5721 · arxiv_version: 1105.5721v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.5721 · pith_short_12: MZ3BPTPACR5G · pith_short_16: MZ3BPTPACR5GWX3C · pith_short_8: MZ3BPTPA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MZ3BPTPACR5GWX3CY2M2MFT4GL \
  | 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: 667617cde0147a6b5f62c699a6167c32e5397d4ce17dd90a90780b28659376e7

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-28T15:07:16Z",
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