Dividing

Midway through my interview with Annie Clark, AKA critically lauded, Grammy-winning, art-rock experimentalist St Vincent, a thumbs up emoji appears next to her head. We’re talking via Zoom, and Clark is mid-flow, waxing lyrical about her emotionally lacerating new album, the self-produced All Born Screaming. It doesn’t feel like the appropriate time for an emoji. Clark lets out a sigh, mumbling something about a setting on her computer she can’t change. She tests it again by doing an exaggerated double thumbs up,…

A 1938 Romer Map of Colonial Africa highlights Germany’s desire to regain its African colonies. Credit: New York Sunday News, May 1, 1938 While Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland marks the official start of World War II, one of the major on-ramps to war was the Italian invasion of Ethiopia four years earlier. "This introduced fascism's threat to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe first pictures of Sebastian Stan playing a young Donald Trump in a new film by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi have been released.As reported last week, the cast of the upcoming movie will also include Succession’s Jeremy Strong as Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife, Ivana.Thought to be titled The Apprentice, Abbasi’s film…

The day after Tucker Carlson lost his job at Fox News, he got some praise from a surprising source: the progressive magazine The American Prospect. The piece may have been titled “The Smuggest Man on Air,” but its thrust was decidedly more admiring of the host. Journalists Lee Harris and Luke Goldstein wrote that Carlson was “skilled at skewering comfortable pieties on the left and right” and that his “insistent distrust of his powerful guests acts as a solvent to authority.” They praised Carlson’s criticisms of free…

Image via Lucasfilm There’s little that unites Star Wars fans beyond their irrevocable love for the galaxy far, far away, and they’ve proven that yet again by turning a rather simple question into an intricate debate. Meanwhile, DCU fans realize that The Flash movie is getting at least one thing right, and that’s Ezra Miller’s high-speed run. Check out these beats and more in today’s sci-fi roundup below. Want to watch an innovative sci-fi flick this weekend? Here’s the perfect franchise to binge through Image…

Actor Daniel Radcliffe’s Girlfriend Erin Darke Got On The Wrong Side Of The Internet After Many Claimed She Is A Transgender ( Photo Credit – Flickr; IMDb ) Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is currently expecting his first child with his actress girlfriend Erin Darke after the duo made the news official back in March. While the loyal fans of the lovely couple celebrated the big news, fictional author Suzanne Seddon on Twitter claimed that Radcliffe’s girlfriend Darke is secretly transgender. Daniel and his…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article Like Article Given an integer array A consisting of N integers. In one move, we can choose any index i ( 0 ≤ i ≤ N-1) and divide it either by 2 or 3(the number A should be divisible by 2 or 3, respectively), the task is to find the minimum number of total moves required such that all array elements are equal. If it is not possible to make all elements equal, print -1.Examples:Input: N = 3, A = Output: 3Explanation: Divide A by 2 twice and A by 3…

Labor tensions at the New York Times NYT -0.43% are intensifying, with the publisher expressing concerns about the union’s tactics in the negotiations and Times staffers taking to Slack to vent frustrations with management.After two years and over 50 bargaining sessions, the union and management have been unable to agree on wages and healthcare benefits, among other issues. Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger last week sent a note to members of the union’s bargaining group…

Image via Marvel Studios Ask any Marvel fan about the post-credit scene in the first Iron Man movie and you’ll likely get a smile, a flash of the eye, and the indescribable feeling of seeing a universe take shape right before your very eyes.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKUsna2yvA Back then, the MCU’s post-credit scenes were single-scoop delectables doled out at the end of movies to spark enthusiasm for projects whirling in the pipeline; Samuel L. Jackson emerges from the shadows as Nick Fury in Iron Man…

Given a sorted array A of size N and an integer M. You need to divide the array A into M non-empty consecutive subarray (1 ≤ M ≤ N) of any size such that each element is present in exactly one of the M-subarray. After dividing the array A into M subarrays you need to calculate the sum   where max(i) is the maximum element in the ith subarray and min(i) is the minimum element in the ith subarray (1 ≤ i ≤ M). After dividing array A into M subarrays, you need to compute the maximum sum.Examples:Input: A = {3, 6, 9, 10, 15},…