Pith Number

pith:VBFN64CO

pith:2017:VBFN64COS3AWFGCUDQXNACWHQQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning to represent signals spike by spike

Christian K. Machens, Pietro Vertechi, Ralph Bourdoukan, Sophie Den\'eve, Wieland Brendel

arxiv:1703.03777 v2 · 2017-03-10 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBFN64COS3AWFGCUDQXNACWHQQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:34.822846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a84adf704e96c16298541c2ed00ac7843ce4bcc0cf16f1b5d1294fe5a8e0bd77

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03777 · arxiv_version: 1703.03777v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03777 · pith_short_12: VBFN64COS3AW · pith_short_16: VBFN64COS3AWFGCU · pith_short_8: VBFN64CO

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/VBFN64COS3AWFGCUDQXNACWHQQ \
  | 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: a84adf704e96c16298541c2ed00ac7843ce4bcc0cf16f1b5d1294fe5a8e0bd77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adc01eb41f7171a3a674cd024ad01e4bad075d6dfc18bd23bb48afea183d842b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-10T17:41:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce8717df86dfd89d5d76917cc959691bbb4551a3be7600c9f3793dc97aedc735"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03777",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}