Pith Number

pith:SQ65Z5AJ

pith:2010:SQ65Z5AJF4OSPO7ACXA62PMMWS

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Information Maximization Fails to Maximize Expected Utility in a Simple Foraging Model

Edward K. Agarwala, Hillel J. Chiel, Peter J. Thomas

arxiv:1010.4726 v1 · 2010-10-22 · q-bio.OT · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SQ65Z5AJF4OSPO7ACXA62PMMWS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:38:57.495169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

943ddcf4092f1d27bbe015c1ed3d8cb4994e11085ae7db5df27f1f9e6f0d2b49

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4726 · arxiv_version: 1010.4726v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4726 · pith_short_12: SQ65Z5AJF4OS · pith_short_16: SQ65Z5AJF4OSPO7A · pith_short_8: SQ65Z5AJ

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/SQ65Z5AJF4OSPO7ACXA62PMMWS \
  | 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: 943ddcf4092f1d27bbe015c1ed3d8cb4994e11085ae7db5df27f1f9e6f0d2b49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "510161f09d047dfc8c7c81146fc43624e59bb2b715dc174cd315be746fc90722",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-22T14:33:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce7488ec2d9e12150fbf4f7712d3d3e94e60005f2d713e76b08a0aeb4303010f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4726",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}