Pith Number

pith:U5OZENNG

pith:2018:U5OZENNGGEKMLGF4BX2ZESTUVA

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Hows and Whys of Artificial Intelligence for Public Sector Decisions: Explanation and Evaluation

Alun Preece, Dave Braines, Harry Armstrong, Rob Ashelford

arxiv:1810.02689 v2 · 2018-09-28 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5OZENNGGEKMLGF4BX2ZESTUVA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:44.161775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a75d9235a63114c598bc0df5924a74a812b0ef7dce92db716f9b2810e9f5bf01

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.02689 · arxiv_version: 1810.02689v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.02689 · pith_short_12: U5OZENNGGEKM · pith_short_16: U5OZENNGGEKMLGF4 · pith_short_8: U5OZENNG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U5OZENNGGEKMLGF4BX2ZESTUVA \
  | 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: a75d9235a63114c598bc0df5924a74a812b0ef7dce92db716f9b2810e9f5bf01

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-28T09:38:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eae25f8e4386f1ce76cb7c8b063f6a169d0e3d8f3676f6eeca2dc42ef08e34b0"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}