Pith Number

pith:ZOETD4VF

pith:2025:ZOETD4VF24B43AGGLKMGGLQYUC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recommender systems, stigmergy, and the tyranny of popularity

Paul E. Smaldino, Zackary Okun Dunivin

arxiv:2506.06162 v2 · 2025-06-06 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC · cs.IR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZOETD4VF24B43AGGLKMGGLQYUC}

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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	2026-07-05T11:31:45.974530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb8931f2a5d703cd80c65a98632e18a0b2f7b8c99639535614afdcd8f733333b

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.06162 · arxiv_version: 2506.06162v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.06162 · pith_short_12: ZOETD4VF24B4 · pith_short_16: ZOETD4VF24B43AGG · pith_short_8: ZOETD4VF

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/ZOETD4VF24B43AGGLKMGGLQYUC \
  | 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: cb8931f2a5d703cd80c65a98632e18a0b2f7b8c99639535614afdcd8f733333b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4bb5c629d6ee12273a552a4e5f742482769dba4e7955036364f11f6f8bbb36b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-06T15:27:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5e456e68297dea85e1819e5d51d90d01cad0c55129b9bce3db6b87e2e26902f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.06162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}