Pith Number

pith:VFTE4QNR

pith:2016:VFTE4QNROMTTOYCKCPGO6QAR5A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection

Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan

arxiv:1606.04956 v1 · 2016-06-15 · cs.AI · cs.GT · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFTE4QNROMTTOYCKCPGO6QAR5A}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:22.291648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9664e41b1732737604a13ccef4011e828c764478ffc81f751e00ed98b767bce

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.04956 · arxiv_version: 1606.04956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.04956 · pith_short_12: VFTE4QNROMTT · pith_short_16: VFTE4QNROMTTOYCK · pith_short_8: VFTE4QNR

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/VFTE4QNROMTTOYCKCPGO6QAR5A \
  | 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: a9664e41b1732737604a13ccef4011e828c764478ffc81f751e00ed98b767bce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5896a06d6a3b2c18938968ed6c98da457c2d5a15908d3ef7923a09097e1a4a01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-15T20:00:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4099d6e2e3738a685c721932ef29cbacc059d9590405c9f98a0a41fb0ba02eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.04956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}