Pith Number

pith:YX55YGVA

pith:2017:YX55YGVADSC55YZPNUSW62OV5T

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The Doctor Just Won't Accept That!

Zachary C. Lipton

arxiv:1711.08037 v2 · 2017-11-20 · stat.ML

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YX55YGVADSC55YZPNUSW62OV5T}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Unexplainability and Incomprehensibility of Artificial Intelligence

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:45.071338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5fbdc1aa01c85dee32f6d256f69d5ecc7f4e786149e07906aa461fe017a7c1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.08037 · arxiv_version: 1711.08037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.08037 · pith_short_12: YX55YGVADSC5 · pith_short_16: YX55YGVADSC55YZP · pith_short_8: YX55YGVA

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/YX55YGVADSC55YZPNUSW62OV5T \
  | 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: c5fbdc1aa01c85dee32f6d256f69d5ecc7f4e786149e07906aa461fe017a7c1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f04634db00099f3479bb15d43d9c18f072acfe4ebe2783f8c02d477c6ec3aa86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-20T04:19:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4779fa955b3e291e02b358d14411683413152514ab3b4a0a2cd94e85f60ac225"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.08037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}