Two Dimensional Semantics Puns

I'm wondering if anybody can recommend good papers on (or have thoughts regarding) attempts to integrate the notions of speaker-meaning/utterance-meaning into a two-dimensional or possible worlds semantics framework. It seems like there are a number of different ways you could go...

TLDR: how do we determine the epistemic intention of metaethical statements under Chalmers' system of two dimensional semantics?

I was recently going though an old logic textbook of mine, which presented an argument against cultural relativism. The argument goes:

Cultural relativism defines the word "good" as "what society approves of". 

Thus, "X is good" means "X is approved of by my society."

If these two sentences mean the same thing then it would be impossible for someone to disagree with societal norms and would be inconsistent to say something like "Slavery is not good, but it is approved of by my society."

This seems fairly convincing, since it does seem perfectly meaningful for someone in pre Civil War America to think "Slavery is not good but it is approved of by my society."

It occurred to me that the cultural relativist is attempting to make an informative identity statement. To my knowledge, there are only two sorts of informative identity statements: something like "let P be the greatest prime number under 20; P=19" and the necessary a posteriori like "Hesperus is Phosphorus" which if true at all is true necessarily. The cultural relativist does not seem to be saying anything like the former (which has more to do with the limitations of human cognitive faculties), so it is necessary a posteriori.

A good way to test whether the cultural relativist's claim is correct might be to check the two dimensional intension of the claim. But I am not sure how one might go about doing that -- specifically, how one would determine the epistemic intension of it. Would the cultural relativist say that each epistemic scenario would stand for a possible culture with its own norms? Are there any counter arguments to that move? Is 2D semantics just the wrong theory to model this kind of issue?

In core Proto-Indo-European, the -h₂ suffix changed from an abstract/collective meaning to a marker of the feminine gender. You can see this still in abstract nouns generally having feminine gender, e.g. geographia/historia in Greek.

Likewise in Semitic the affix -at is used both for feminine (e.g. ʔamat 'maidservant') and abstract/collective (e.g. ʔilāhat 'goodness').

So what's the semantic link between 'feminine' and 'abstract'? When Indo-European changed from an animate-inanimate gender system, why did masculine continue the animate forms, while the feminine was based on the abstract derivation?

I remember watching this show on DVD during the early 2000s as a young kid. It was animated in a two-dimensional simple style. Each episode ran about ten minutes approx. and the dog and the cat were the only two characters in a large suburban house. There was no dialogue in the show except for the animal sounds that the cat and dog made. The cat was black and the dog was orange. Both of them had round bodies with small feet and ears. The dog had its tongue poking out most of the time.

This show was meant to be funny but I remember some of the plots being slightly off. The series was episodic, so each episode never affected any other. I remember some episodes ended at a point where the two characters were about to be harmed. There was an episode where it was raining so heavily that the house was flooding. The two characters had tried to find the highest point in the house but it wasn't enough. I remember the episode just ending as the flood kept filling the house.

I remember finding the show entertaining as a kid but thinking about it now there was something weird about it. This sounds a lot like the beginning of a creepypasta but I'm being completely genuine.

I know the title is wonky but I was inspired to ask this because I somehow ended up thinking "what if I could combine Jonathan Drouin with Josh Anderson?". Although lacking in defense, I could see that hybrid being a total offensive monster. How bout you guys?

I have the given classes which implement certain interfaces.

class Square : ISquare
class Board : IBoard

In my Board class there's a property:

class Board : IBoard
{
    public ISquare[,] BoardStates { get; set; };
}

In IBoard interface there's the same property:

interface IBoard
{
    public ISquare[,] BoardStates { get; set; };
}

The issue that i'm facing is that i cannot create a new instance of Board.

Board.BoardStates = new Square[,] <---- what i need to do.
Board.BoardStates = new ISquare[,] <---- what i can to do.

Project architecture is as follows:

-BLL
    -Board
-Contracts
    -IBoard

How can i fix this? I'm all out of ideas.

a = np.random.rand(10).reshape(2,5)

Journal of the American Chemical SocietyDOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12072

Amymarie K. Bartholomew, Elena Meirzadeh, Ilana B. Stone, Christie S. Koay, Colin Nuckolls, Michael L. Steigerwald, Andrew C. Crowther, and Xavier Roy

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As a team, they could make a pair of bags of holding virtually free every day.

With that little investment, it would even be an economical service to dispose of large nasty things, like monster carcasses.

It's mentioned that depth does not exist in the 2D universe, so you don't have atoms and you don't have brain. How can you be called an intelligent being in 2D?

At my job we have a new-ish requirement to print out a generated QR code on our reports. We have a solution for this using crystal reports, but it's slow because it involves a web request for generating the code for each report.

I wanted to make an attempt at writing a QR code generator in Crystal Reports itself, but it's kind of a big project and I'm only a beginner programmer in my first semester of computer science with no real prior experience, so it's been rough.

For now I've built some functions in Crystal to at least convert the input strings into UTF-8 bytecode so I can start using that as a base for converting it into a QR code, but the QR code specifications are quite daunting.

Just looking through them, I realized I'm going to have a very rough time if I can't make use of two dimensional arrays. Could anyone guide me on how to best simulate a two dimensional array in Crystal Reports without losing too much code legibility? This project is going to be a monster and I probably shouldn't be doing this, but hey, if I do manage to get it done that'll be pretty dang cool.

Also, any experiences with implementing QR codes that doesn't just involve making use of some pre-built libraries would be appreciated. For the record, we're using Crystal Reports XI, so if anyone knows if I can make use of external libraries through that, that'd probably be the ideal solution to the issue.

Int[ ] a = {1,2}; Int[ ] b = {1,2};

I have task to multiply two one dimensional arrays. What I want to do is simply multiply 12*12=144 but I have no idea how to do it in C with arrays. Please can someone help me with this?

So I’m setting up a chronicle with some friends, and I’m trying to flesh out St. Augustine with an array of different characters that make sense within its historical context. My thought process when I was writing them down is “Oh, it’s a Spanish city settled by conquistadors, let’s make the Prince a former conquistador” and stuff like that.

The problem is, I feel like I’m just making concepts, not characters. My question is, how do the Storytellers here make their characters feel more real and less like 2D concepts? Is there a certain process you use when making SPCs?

Hello,

I am looking for a reference which gives the the eigenvectors of the the two-dimensional Euler equations in a curvilinear coordinate system (so that the eigenvectors include the metrics and such). I have only found eigenvectors for the three-dimensional Euler equations.

Appreciate any help.

EDIT: I should be more clear. If we have the Euler equations, I want to transform the primitive variables into characteristic variables using the left and right eigenvectors of the two-dimensional equations. I need the form of the left eigenvectors in this case (and right eigenvectors if possible).

We report smart nanofluidic devices based on oriented two-dimensional covalent organic framework membranes that offer vertically aligned nanofluidic channel arrays, leading to an ultrahigh ion flux and pH-gating nanofluidic transport.

Abstract

Nanofluidic ion transport holds high promise in bio-sensing and energy conversion applications. However, smart nanofluidic devices with high ion flux and modulable ion transport capabilities remain to be realised. Herein, we demonstrate smart nanofluidic devices based on oriented two-dimensional covalent organic framework (2D COF) membranes with vertically aligned nanochannel arrays that achieved a 2–3 orders of magnitude higher ion flux compared with that of conventional single-channel nanofluidic devices. The surface-charge-governed ion conductance is dominant for electrolyte concentration up to 0.01 M. Moreover, owing to the customisable pH-responsivity of imine and phenol hydroxyl groups, the COF-DT membranes attained an actively modulable ion transport with a high pH-gating on/off ratio of ≈100. The customisable structure and rich chemistry of COF materials will offer a promising platform for manufacturing nanofluidic devices with modifiable ion/molecular transport features.

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I have the given classes which implement certain interfaces.

class Square : ISquare
class Board : IBoard

In my Board class there's a property:

class Board : IBoard
{
    public ISquare[,] BoardStates { get; set; };
}

In IBoard interface there's the same property:

interface IBoard
{
    public ISquare[,] BoardStates { get; set; };
}

The issue that i'm facing is that i cannot create a new instance of Board.

Board.BoardStates = new Square[,] <---- what i need to do.
Board.BoardStates = new ISquare[,] <---- what i can to do.

Project architecture is as follows:

-BLL
    -Board
-Contracts
    -IBoard

How can i fix this? I'm all out of ideas.