Pith Number

pith:VMEKKTIG

pith:2014:VMEKKTIGLIK2BDAXTSEKSYA5FD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Should We Train Scientific Generalists?

Gopal Sarma

arxiv:1410.4422 v2 · 2014-10-11 · cs.CY · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMEKKTIGLIK2BDAXTSEKSYA5FD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:08.923736Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab08a54d065a15a08c179c88a9601d28d0bd433a7db8ca242a9d63ca105d1118

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.4422 · arxiv_version: 1410.4422v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.4422 · pith_short_12: VMEKKTIGLIK2 · pith_short_16: VMEKKTIGLIK2BDAX · pith_short_8: VMEKKTIG

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/VMEKKTIGLIK2BDAXTSEKSYA5FD \
  | 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: ab08a54d065a15a08c179c88a9601d28d0bd433a7db8ca242a9d63ca105d1118

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa339f306affcc7334b60d592b129b2bca29c0fdd70b26694e9d11d3730cf39b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-11T18:30:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe72f4523b1b56f49537c7a0cab247108ca893644e0bdef2a6391d7036caddee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.4422",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}