Craig Mack passes away at 46 yrs.Flava In ya ear goes home.Born May 10 1971 Died March 12 2018

Craig Mack known for his breakout rap track 'Flava In Ya Ear' and one of the first artistes under the famous Bad Boy Records has passed away aged just 46.

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Youtube introduces background change function on stories.Say goodbye to green screen.Demo Video Included

Researchers know how much people like to trick others into thinking they’re on the moon, or that it’s night instead of day, and other fun shenanigans only possible if you happen to be in a movie studio in front of a green screen. So they did what any good 2018 coder would do: build a neural network that lets you do it.
This “video segmentation” tool, as they call it (well, everyone does) is rolling out to YouTube Stories on mobile in a limited fashion starting now — if you see the option, congratulations, you’re a beta tester.
A lot of ingenuity seems to have gone into this feature. It’s a piece of cake to figure out where the foreground ends and the background begins if you have a depth-sensing camera (like the iPhone X’s front-facing array) or plenty of processing time and no battery to think about (like a desktop computer).
 On mobile, though, and with an ordinary RGB image, it’s not so easy to do. And if doing a still image is hard, video is even more so, since the computer has to do the calculation 30 times a second at a minimum.
Well, Google’s engineers took that as a challenge, and set up a convolutional neural network architecture, training it on thousands of labelled images like the one to the right.
The network learned to pick out the common features of a head and shoulders, and a series of optimizations lowered the amount of data it needed to crunch in order to do so. And — although it’s cheating a bit — the result of the previous calculation (so, a sort of cutout of your head) gets used as raw material for the next one, further reducing load.
The result is a fast, relatively accurate segmentation engine that runs more than fast enough to be used in video — 40 frames per second on the Pixel 2 and over 100 on the iPhone 7 (!).
 This is great news for a lot of folks — removing or replacing a background is a great tool to have in your toolbox and this makes it quite easy. And hopefully it won’t kill your battery.

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Grand Theft Audio 7 Khaled,Jay z,Beyonce,NBA Youngboy,Future,Lil Wayne

DJ Jah Will hosts a mixtape called Grand Theft Audio 7 on spinrilla
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One of the hottest DJ's in the game DJ Jah Will brings you "Grand Theft Audio 7" a very extensive and curated playlist which features some of the best recent hits.

The Vault: Indy Takeover Dropping March 16 on Spinrilla, 2018 DJ KAM Benett.

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Challace-n-Ruc MrQB Feat Havoc "Mobb Deep" Prod By Str8 Bangaz,Mixed by QBanga"TBCE" Off the upcoming project "Blood Under Da Bridge" Hosted by Havoc dropping this spring!!!!

Check out this exclusive track from Challace-n-Ruc MrQB Feat Havoc called "Mobb Deep" Prod By Str8 Bangaz,Mixed by QBanga"TBCE" Off the upcoming project "Blood Under Da Bridge" Hosted by Havoc dropping this spring!!!!

Review of the book called Growth Hacker by Ryan Holiday

Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
Easy to read: ★★★★
Easy to understand: ★★★★
This was a quick read but does require a bit of focus to fully absorb all of the concepts.
Relevant during the age of social media: ★★★★★
Yes, this book relies entirely on social media tactics. If you are looking to create growth online for a product, series, or concept, these tactics will apply at least loosely to you.
Relevant for an independent artist: ★★★
If you are looking to create any sort of marketed product as an artist, these concepts should be able to apply to you. The book spends a great deal of time focusing on apps, and particularly large mass marketed apps, but the underlying concepts can be taken and applied to whatever you are trying to market.
The general idea is to find your core audience, market exclusively, directly, and powerfully to them, and then design your product so that it will spread itself from there. Create ways that people will want to share your product for you. Focus on the people who are the best fit and they will do the work for you, rather than trying to market to everybody (as the vast majority of the world will not be the best fit for your product).
As an artist, this means asking questions like “who is the target audience for my artwork? Where do they congregate? How can I target them directly? Why should they want to share my artwork?”
Relevant for a small and/or independent art or media company: ★★★★
If you are creating any sort of app or website, there will be information for you. If you are creating video content, a book, an album, and sort of product that needs to be marketed, there will be information for you.
Relevant for running a kickstarter, patreon, or indiegogo: ★★★★
Though these are never covered by name, the concepts in the book can be, perhaps, MOST easily applied to these crowdfunding projects for an independent artist. If you plan to run any sort of crowdfunding campaign, I recommend at least skimming this book for ideas.
Relevant for selling and advertising a product: ★★★★★
Yes, this is precisely the main focus of the book.
Main takeaways from the book:
Find a product that is a good fit for your target audience first. It has to be something that your audience will want to share and propagate themselves. Be iterative with your refinement process, putting work out into the world to test and then improving it based on feedback until you have a solid product-market fit. Design share-ability into your product so that it becomes an inherent part of the loop. From there, people will spread the word of your product for you. Focus on the people who are the best fit for your product; retaining them and inspiring them to spread the word for you will lead to success.
I would recommend this book to:
-Someone running any sort of art or media related Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign
-Someone trying to sell any sort of art related product online
-Someone trying to spread the word about their art and get more social media interaction
-Someone as a primer, if they are interested in learning more about growth hacking


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