Solar panels have been improving in efficiency and dropping in price, and are therefore becoming more common and economically viable. However, the performance of solar panels depends not only on the weather, but also on other external factors such as shadow, dirt, dust, etc. In this paper, we describe a simple and practical data-driven method for classifying anomalies in the power output of sol...

The Jewish people cannot and do not accept that Jesus Christ is their messiah. He may have been a good man, a prophet, a miracle worker, a healer, an observant Jew, or all of these, but they continue to insist that he was not their messiah. Many reasons are usually given for this rejection, but there is one reason that has persisted from the times of Jesus himself and therefore presents itself ...

Innovations for Poverty Action applies rigorous research techniques to develop and test solutions to real-world problems faced by the poor in developing countries. Contributions to this research made by a member of The Financial Access Initiative and Innovations for Poverty Action.

We can learn a great deal about consciousness and the place of mind in nature by attention to how things have meaning to us. What something means to us is the expectations that are triggered in us by its occurrence. As if to illustrate that point, this leads to many interesting conclusions. The result of the analysis presented here is that a mind is recursively defined as a system’s in-formed s...