Policeman and Public.Arthur Woods

Deep Woods

Recent theoretical studies indicate that deep architectures [4, 2] are needed to efficiently model complex distributions and to achieve better generalization performance on challenging recognition tasks. The belief that additional levels of functional composition will yield increased representational and modeling power is not new [13, 9, 16]. In practice, learning in deep architectures had prov...

Schnyder Woods and Orthogonal Surfaces

In this paper we study connections between planar graphs, Schnyder woods, and orthogonal surfaces. Schnyder woods and the face counting approach have important applications in graph drawing and the dimension theory of orders. Orthogonal surfaces explain connections between these seemingly unrelated notions. We use these connections for an intuitive proof of the Brightwell-Trotter Theorem which ...

CRISPRing into the woods

The CRISPR/Cas9 technology is a welcome breakthrough for genome editing, owing to its precision, efficiency, versatility and ease of adoption. We recently reported the first application of CRISPR/Cas9 for biallelic mutations in stably transformed Populus, extending the species range of this powerful technology to woody perennials. An underappreciated obstacle in genome editing of outcrossing sp...

Trees outside woods

Woods Hole Gceanocraphsc Institution

The theory of internal tidal waves is briefly reviewed in order to demonstrate the importance of simultaneous observations at different positions. After a description of the expectancy test it is shown that a reasonably high probability exists that the internal tidal oscillations found at Meteor Station 385 in the temperature observations are real and not purely formal results of the harmonic a...