Tootfinder

So the basic idea is that we first compute a "level" for whatever interaction, by adding beneficial modifiers and subtracting harmful ones. Imagine most modifiers are smallish integers like 2 or -3 (though they can be non-integers too). Each level can be thought of as making things twice as good/bad, although this only applies directly when they're balanced. The actual formula starts with a 50/50 chance of "success" at level 0, and then each positive level halves the chance of failure, or if the levels are negative, each negative level halves the chance of success (note that halving the chance of failure is not the same as doubling the chance of success).
The intuitive explanation is that you start with a coin flip. Then if the level is positive, you flip that many additional coins and succeed if any single coin succeeds, but it the level is negative, you have to flip that many additional coins and succeed only if *all* flips succeed.
For example, if I have a dagger with 5 crit chance, and I attack an opponent with no armor modifiers, I'd have to win any 1 of 6 coin flips to score a crit (p = 1 - (1/(2^6)) = 63/64. Increasing my crit modifier by 1 ups my chances only slightly, to 127/128. This is obviously pretty poor return, indicating that the 5 I already have is very strong. If the opponent had armor with -3 to crits, the interaction is now level 2, so the crit chance is 7/8, which is still pretty good. We can see from these examples that the basic system
rewards a small level advantage a lot, but the rewards diminish rapidly. The system has a few avenues for tweaking how it works though, that can let us modify this. There's also a potential benefit (though sometimes drawback) that no matter what the level gap, there's an effective limit to how much the interaction swings.

EFT Corrections to Charged Black Hole Quasinormal Modes
William L. Boyce, Jorge E. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10074 https://ar…

EFT Corrections to Charged Black Hole Quasinormal Modes
We study the impact of higher-derivative corrections from Effective Field Theory on the quasinormal mode spectrum of Reissner-Nordström black holes. While previous work has explored corrections to Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes - typically using small-rotation approximations - a comprehensive analysis near extremality remains lacking. We focus on Reissner-Nordström black holes as a tractable model admitting an extremal limit, enabling investigation of the effect of these corrections on th…

Out of Tune: Demystifying Noise-Effects on Quantum Fourier Models
Maja Franz, Melvin Strobl, Leonid Chaichenets, Eileen Kuehn, Achim Streit, Wolfgang Mauerer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09527

Out of Tune: Demystifying Noise-Effects on Quantum Fourier Models
The field of variational quantum algorithms, in particular quantum machine learning (QML), produced numerous theoretical and empirical insights in recent years. As variational quantum circuits (VQCs) can be represented by Fourier series that contain an exponentially large spectrum in the number of input features, hope for quantum advantage remains. Nevertheless, properties of quantum Fourier models (QFMs) are not yet fully understood, in particular how they could potentially outperform classica…

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

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No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

Probing Planck scale effects on absolute mass limit in neutrino flavor evolution
Kartik Joshi, Sanjib Dey, Satyajit Jena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07588 h…

Probing Planck scale effects on absolute mass limit in neutrino flavor evolution
This work explores how the generalized uncertainty principle, a theoretical modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle inspired by quantum gravity, affects neutrino flavor oscillations. By extending the standard two-flavor neutrino model, we show that the oscillation probability acquires an additional phase term that depends on the square roots of the neutrino masses, introducing new features beyond the conventional mass-squared differences. To account for the non-Hermitian nature of …

The Law of Large Numbers and CLT for Non-stationary Markov Jump Processes Exhibiting Time-of-Day Effects
Monte Fischer, Peter W. Glynn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08282

The Law of Large Numbers and CLT for Non-stationary Markov Jump Processes Exhibiting Time-of-Day Effects
In this paper, we develop a general law of large numbers and central limit theorem for finite state Markov jump processes with non-stationary transition rates. Such models commonly arise in service operations and manufacturing applications in which time-of-day, day-of-week, and secular effects are of first order importance in predicting system behavior. Our theorems allow for non-stationary reward environments that continuously accumulate reward, while including contributions from non-stationar…

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Excitonic effects in energy loss spectra of freestanding graphene
In this work we perform electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) of freestanding graphene with high energy and momentum resolution to disentangle the quasielastic scattering from the excitation gap of Dirac electrons close to the optical limit. We show the importance of many-body effects on electronic excitations at finite transferred momentum by comparing measured EELS with ab initio calculations at increasing levels of theory. Quasi-particle corrections and excitonic effects are addressed wit…

Large-charge R\'enyi entropy
Masataka Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10072

Large-charge Rényi entropy
The charged (symmetry-resolved) vacuum Rényi entanglement entropy on a disk is computed in the limit of large U(1) global charge for any Rényi index. We show that it behaves universally for a broad class of conformal field theories including the O(2) Wilson-Fisher fixed-point, by using the effective field theory at large global charge. The result establishes one of the first concrete computations of entanglement quantities in strongly-coupled field theories.

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Electron-phonon interaction and phonons in 2d doped semiconductors
Electron-phonon interaction and phonon frequencies of doped polar semiconductors are sensitive to long-range Coulomb forces and can be strongly affected by screening effects of free carriers, the latter changing significantly when approaching the two-dimensional limit. We tackle this problem within a linear-response dielectric-matrix formalism, where screening effects can be properly taken into account by generalized effective charge functions and the inverse scalar dielectric function, allowin…

Bootstrapping Gravity with Crossing Symmetric Dispersion Relations
Celina Pasiecznik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09884 https://arxiv.o…

Bootstrapping Gravity with Crossing Symmetric Dispersion Relations
We derive bounds on Wilson coefficients in gravitational effective field theories using fully crossing symmetric dispersion relations. These sum rules naturally isolate finite subsets of low-energy couplings without relying on the forward limit or specific high-energy completions. We validate our method by matching bounds computed previously for scalar scattering with gravity as well as for supergraviton scattering. For graviton scattering we use crossing symmetric functions that combine variou…