Quantum computing and its threat to current encryption and the unknown threat of powerful quantum automated by advanced AI.

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Abstract: The work deals with the NP-hard problem of scheduling tasks on two machines with the sum-cost criterion. In this problem, each task must be performed sequentially on the first and then on ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...