Pith Number

pith:OLWNDMQA

pith:2017:OLWNDMQA6RGUK2BLZTQJXVQ3IX

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How the brain might work: statistics flowing in redundant population codes

Dora Angelaki, Xaq Pitkow

arxiv:1702.03492 v2 · 2017-02-12 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OLWNDMQA6RGUK2BLZTQJXVQ3IX}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:33.466331Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72ecd1b200f44d45682bcce09bd61b45d11f212ba31b746fa027ba12d93da6fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03492 · arxiv_version: 1702.03492v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03492 · pith_short_12: OLWNDMQA6RGU · pith_short_16: OLWNDMQA6RGUK2BL · pith_short_8: OLWNDMQA

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/OLWNDMQA6RGUK2BLZTQJXVQ3IX \
  | 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: 72ecd1b200f44d45682bcce09bd61b45d11f212ba31b746fa027ba12d93da6fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfbc9d50ed7f1b7606012207fb9d13ced6bd1796890785554bed14deb426fdc2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-12T05:32:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "783c494b64daae36574f4add04ebdc569e4ad14193cb6bfef2c95fb26372cbb6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}