Pith Number

pith:XYKZYNOT

pith:2006:XYKZYNOTIZ4X5LOPKZQX76ZQRE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Neural coding of a natural stimulus ensemble: Uncovering information at sub-millisecond resolution

Geoffrey D. Lewen, Ilya Nemenman, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, William Bialek

arxiv:q-bio/0612050 v1 · 2006-12-29 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYKZYNOTIZ4X5LOPKZQX76ZQRE}

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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	2026-07-04T14:58:18.191086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be159c35d346797eadcf56617ffb30891f60fd38af601d11dc055e3920940a7f

Aliases

arxiv: q-bio/0612050 · arxiv_version: q-bio/0612050v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0612050 · pith_short_12: XYKZYNOTIZ4X · pith_short_16: XYKZYNOTIZ4X5LOP · pith_short_8: XYKZYNOT

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/XYKZYNOTIZ4X5LOPKZQX76ZQRE \
  | 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: be159c35d346797eadcf56617ffb30891f60fd38af601d11dc055e3920940a7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9dbb28bd0c931f383956382577fc1afd6b38bb60c6cb16c68a417b4ea23710d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-29T20:57:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efe3bcad764739019ff4e4b0ca38dfab5038ccc5251218fc5b7a78e03d9ff875"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-bio/0612050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}