Pith Number

pith:TIY54JCB

pith:2021:TIY54JCB72WKXUIHNSP37CJFHV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a Theory of Bullshit Visualization

Michael Correll

arxiv:2109.12975 v1 · 2021-09-23 · cs.GL · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TIY54JCB72WKXUIHNSP37CJFHV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T03:17:39.559247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a31de2441feacabd1076c9fbf89253d6eb1d9c485c63e9f0f40a6c8617e0b1a

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.12975 · arxiv_version: 2109.12975v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.12975 · pith_short_12: TIY54JCB72WK · pith_short_16: TIY54JCB72WKXUIH · pith_short_8: TIY54JCB

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/TIY54JCB72WKXUIHNSP37CJFHV \
  | 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: 9a31de2441feacabd1076c9fbf89253d6eb1d9c485c63e9f0f40a6c8617e0b1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b78e10ab472a632f71f5e214415f9ee9a1b2e0c2af9a828a8f4ba0ffbe984097",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-23T17:20:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99a09c3ae666f16f52d6a77594bcd5d9b042a99156ca00a4917c1fecb94478a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.12975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}