Pith Number

pith:W3SABKWQ

pith:2020:W3SABKWQUOR5HI3FX3PMZFZAUN

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The Hardware Lottery

Sara Hooker

arxiv:2009.06489 v2 · 2020-09-14 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.AR · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3SABKWQUOR5HI3FX3PMZFZAUN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Cited by

6 papers in Pith

ORFS-agent: Tool-Using Agents for Chip Design Optimization

On the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Generalization in Neural Networks

Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity

ST-MoE: Designing Stable and Transferable Sparse Expert Models

FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:37:15.542950Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6e400aad0a3a3d3a365bedecc9720a352fad268eb0583c939e9fec01ddc2f82

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.06489 · arxiv_version: 2009.06489v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.06489 · pith_short_12: W3SABKWQUOR5 · pith_short_16: W3SABKWQUOR5HI3F · pith_short_8: W3SABKWQ

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/W3SABKWQUOR5HI3FX3PMZFZAUN \
  | 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: b6e400aad0a3a3d3a365bedecc9720a352fad268eb0583c939e9fec01ddc2f82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8e83bd5d2af0a25f44c0178e4756da4c748bf45d0861f64c735a89f9c43024c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.AR",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-14T14:49:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "415acfa4d521ca2672b1735c447ad0b3e9485cae85b892bae758f25f9f8689d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.06489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}