Pith Number

pith:XO7CHOSK

pith:2017:XO7CHOSK63F7FA7KACCPTTKLOH

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Unknowable Manipulators: Social Network Curator Algorithms

Hillary Shakespeare, Samuel Albanie, Tom Gunter

arxiv:1701.04895 v1 · 2017-01-17 · cs.AI · cs.SI · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XO7CHOSK63F7FA7KACCPTTKLOH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:08.873555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbbe23ba4af6cbf283ea0084f9cd4b71fd3143f676be903f2612d84ec2919164

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04895 · arxiv_version: 1701.04895v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04895 · pith_short_12: XO7CHOSK63F7 · pith_short_16: XO7CHOSK63F7FA7K · pith_short_8: XO7CHOSK

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/XO7CHOSK63F7FA7KACCPTTKLOH \
  | 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: bbbe23ba4af6cbf283ea0084f9cd4b71fd3143f676be903f2612d84ec2919164

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb9d9b67da93ee288bae23823ab599e7f6ab26ee6a6ab133face8f1adfcbfb96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-17T22:52:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "229c0cb57d4e2e0d82673026835190a3b74e8fd53157eecc349aeae09d26b364"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}