Pith Number

pith:ST33LZZH

pith:2021:ST33LZZHAZL5STI7WDDD43NBYF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability

Kenny Smith, Kory Mathewson, Shangmin Guo, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Yi Ren

arxiv:2106.03982 v2 · 2021-06-07 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ST33LZZHAZL5STI7WDDD43NBYF}

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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	2026-07-05T04:05:31.542971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94f7b5e7270657d94d1fb0c63e6da1c179559eb789f62d1e5f67675528259e32

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.03982 · arxiv_version: 2106.03982v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.03982 · pith_short_12: ST33LZZHAZL5 · pith_short_16: ST33LZZHAZL5STI7 · pith_short_8: ST33LZZH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ST33LZZHAZL5STI7WDDD43NBYF \
  | 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: 94f7b5e7270657d94d1fb0c63e6da1c179559eb789f62d1e5f67675528259e32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27fb27b085dfaf098d13d102a0e1d6ac8bd0cef4f25fb05c2dd74054163ff034",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-07T21:57:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6308e43f9a9d78aa96e78324639aa0fe4d14cce34f82153473c3b04c299c8ad8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.03982",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}