Pith Number

pith:T4NRASUJ

pith:2020:T4NRASUJBXHRKRXOP2YCL5MRE2

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It's the Journey Not the Destination: Building Genetic Algorithms Practitioners Can Trust

Ben Evans, Jakub Vincalek, Sean Walton

arxiv:2010.06406 v1 · 2020-10-13 · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T4NRASUJBXHRKRXOP2YCL5MRE2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T01:42:48.398994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f1b104a890dcf1546ee7eb025f59126a664f7f62a215754c07bb51c49c6c2b3

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.06406 · arxiv_version: 2010.06406v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.06406 · pith_short_12: T4NRASUJBXHR · pith_short_16: T4NRASUJBXHRKRXO · pith_short_8: T4NRASUJ

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/T4NRASUJBXHRKRXOP2YCL5MRE2 \
  | 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: 9f1b104a890dcf1546ee7eb025f59126a664f7f62a215754c07bb51c49c6c2b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95775973c5cf2c211dd0dcee869f144f13ff8427cfa3c83072362929a13a638b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-13T14:07:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4697742a52a7e841ea2ce5f4402640d08540486769e6afd72c29e6c99f719a16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.06406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}