Pith Number

pith:QAWJMAM2

pith:2019:QAWJMAM2WGWTNUEIBYZROBEWSH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is coding a relevant metaphor for building AI? A commentary on "Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain?", by Romain Brette

Adam Santoro, David Barrett, David Raposo, Felix Hill, Matthew Botvinick, Timothy Lillicrap

arxiv:1904.10396 v1 · 2019-04-18 · q-bio.NC · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QAWJMAM2WGWTNUEIBYZROBEWSH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:54.266980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

802c96019ab1ad36d0880e3317049691d9a9e21554366f64b8e0e0d4d39954fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.10396 · arxiv_version: 1904.10396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.10396 · pith_short_12: QAWJMAM2WGWT · pith_short_16: QAWJMAM2WGWTNUEI · pith_short_8: QAWJMAM2

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/QAWJMAM2WGWTNUEIBYZROBEWSH \
  | 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: 802c96019ab1ad36d0880e3317049691d9a9e21554366f64b8e0e0d4d39954fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09ae796a31ef31e345fb6aaf41235339bb2270d10caa832209d9af98208045ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-18T14:58:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c326a299d409f658a99214b3d6bacb0f2dd730836847096ad1c972a76d19e86a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.10396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}