Pith Number

pith:XHP2OGSZ

pith:2026:XHP2OGSZMT6NX6UFMXTXOFOWNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

This is how the Neocortex Learns

Randall C. O'Reilly

arxiv:2606.08720 v1 · 2026-06-07 · q-bio.NC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XHP2OGSZMT6NX6UFMXTXOFOWNK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-09T02:07:35.247248Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9dfa71a5964fcdbfa8565e77715d66a96fc1a52d8e6c480d6c37440c7663be4

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08720 · arxiv_version: 2606.08720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08720 · pith_short_12: XHP2OGSZMT6N · pith_short_16: XHP2OGSZMT6NX6UF · pith_short_8: XHP2OGSZ

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/XHP2OGSZMT6NX6UFMXTXOFOWNK \
  | 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: b9dfa71a5964fcdbfa8565e77715d66a96fc1a52d8e6c480d6c37440c7663be4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "055f56250cea6918c6b8d55f5e7bb120cd4971d8a343c20278691a692cbd3515",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T16:31:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ebbdb7b64b7fcdad0b14fefe43dfc9256ac5e1e10b1ae6d7748d3da7fb6a157"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}