Pith Number

pith:NCH3RMAO

pith:2021:NCH3RMAOQI4LRM55KZHZSWNMB5

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Successes and failures of simple statistical physics models for a network of real neurons

Carlos D. Brody, David W. Tank, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Leenoy Meshulam, William Bialek

arxiv:2112.14735 v2 · 2021-12-29 · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.NC

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\pithnumber{NCH3RMAOQI4LRM55KZHZSWNMB5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:04:32.787954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

688fb8b00e8238b8b3bd564f9959ac0f4ea84eba565951f05c20f0df64428844

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.14735 · arxiv_version: 2112.14735v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.14735 · pith_short_12: NCH3RMAOQI4L · pith_short_16: NCH3RMAOQI4LRM55 · pith_short_8: NCH3RMAO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NCH3RMAOQI4LRM55KZHZSWNMB5 \
  | 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: 688fb8b00e8238b8b3bd564f9959ac0f4ea84eba565951f05c20f0df64428844

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2359400d4ddc0d1057d2105c5d9bd0aa5efeb08b40a8f352f8576969082568b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-29T18:42:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0829c9ce3a8711952ccba3c5f301e3c2adbe5aa3e0f5ececb3b59bc3336dcb9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.14735",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}