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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – The new year will bring new programming changes to WSFA 12 News’ sister stations seen in Montgomery, Selma and west Alabama, locally on Channel 5 over the air. Starting on Jan. 1, the programming lineup for the three low-power TV stations, including WTMU, WBXM, and W35EE, found over the air on Channel 5, will change in the following ways: WTMU 5.1 – Telemundo 5.2 – Gray Television’s Local News Live 5.3 – SBN 5.4 – Heartland will be replaced by THE365 5.5 – ShopLC will be replaced by Outlaw, a brand-new western television network 5.6 –…

While Santa Claus may have a magical sleigh and nine plucky reindeer to help him deliver presents, for companies like FedEx, the optimization problem of efficiently routing holiday packages is so complicated that they often employ specialized software to find a solution. This software, called a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solver, splits a massive optimization problem into smaller pieces and uses generic algorithms to try and find the best solution. However, the solver could take hours — or even days — to arrive at a solution. The process is so onerous that a company often has to stop the software…