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This repository contains code relating to the paper "A Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem under Strict Customer Preferences" by Christina Büsing, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

After our decade-long relationship, I’m breaking up with Spotify. It’s nothing personal. It’s just that Spotify and I have grown up, but we haven’t grown together. Over the years, I’ve been tempted to ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

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AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now create strikingly realistic video. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a film made almost entirely with AI. Watch the film and ...