Pith Number

pith:UTX3SJFM

pith:2017:UTX3SJFMWU4XUXMT37TF5K3VY7

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The impossibility of "fairness": a generalized impossibility result for decisions

Thomas Miconi

arxiv:1707.01195 v3 · 2017-07-05 · stat.AP · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UTX3SJFMWU4XUXMT37TF5K3VY7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:31.022997Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4efb924acb5397a5d93dfe65eab75c7eb089f943de150e493119499532bc170

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.01195 · arxiv_version: 1707.01195v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.01195 · pith_short_12: UTX3SJFMWU4X · pith_short_16: UTX3SJFMWU4XUXMT · pith_short_8: UTX3SJFM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UTX3SJFMWU4XUXMT37TF5K3VY7 \
  | 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: a4efb924acb5397a5d93dfe65eab75c7eb089f943de150e493119499532bc170

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "010ffe87a20ed42a16f1e61e81582e8396dd031bbb5bbc964edcbf6ce8c0a86a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-05T02:02:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fa2bc85604e1849a1b9009c1e0a753f3a8b5dcfe039746f31d958408cb2ab86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.01195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}