Pith Number

pith:O4XU24S6

pith:2020:O4XU24S6U7Y6HARF56223VI3AP

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Explaining AI as an Exploratory Process: The Peircean Abduction Model

Robert R. Hoffman, Shane T. Mueller, William J. Clancey

arxiv:2009.14795 v2 · 2020-09-30 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O4XU24S6U7Y6HARF56223VI3AP}

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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	2026-07-05T01:39:39.230243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

772f4d725ea7f1e38225efb5add51b03e08552be1408d76a51be096ef4411ed9

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.14795 · arxiv_version: 2009.14795v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.14795 · pith_short_12: O4XU24S6U7Y6 · pith_short_16: O4XU24S6U7Y6HARF · pith_short_8: O4XU24S6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O4XU24S6U7Y6HARF56223VI3AP \
  | 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: 772f4d725ea7f1e38225efb5add51b03e08552be1408d76a51be096ef4411ed9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf8d26a67ddfa35256592a702cd67148546ccde4fe3043184ec9a191a3f57683",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-30T17:10:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "170d65babf2ed920fea90bd5d82633523f97b91622f4cb7256e444d4d8849721"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.14795",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}