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pith:VY22EEH2

pith:2024:VY22EEH2ODUDVBYGOM3IVHSG5S

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Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction

Alexander Mordvintsev, Ben Laurie, Blaise Ag\"uera y Arcas, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson, James Evans, Jyrki Alakuijala, Luca Versari

arxiv:2406.19108 v2 · 2024-06-27 · cs.NE · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:51:18.486159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

ae35a210fa70e83a870673368a9e46ec9897e8a920be8321d564832c7bf3a844

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arxiv: 2406.19108 · arxiv_version: 2406.19108v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.19108 · pith_short_12: VY22EEH2ODUD · pith_short_16: VY22EEH2ODUDVBYG · pith_short_8: VY22EEH2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VY22EEH2ODUDVBYGOM3IVHSG5S \
  | 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: ae35a210fa70e83a870673368a9e46ec9897e8a920be8321d564832c7bf3a844

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-27T11:34:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73137c2695e3ce9964a81f63a4a88d99c3f68b42cec87b5e17542e5638ed38d3"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2406.19108",
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  }
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