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  1. 21-07-2017, 10:01 AM #1
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    Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick available for US$79

    Offers more than 100 GFLOPS of inference performance within a 1W power envelope.
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    Re: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick available for US$79

    Is it possible that they will use this stick connected to your PC to use power of YOUR PC for their calculations. So this becomes something like "Trojan Horse"?
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    Re: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick available for US$79

    I wonder if a few of these daisy chained to a Moose might be able to give it some commonsense? Cyber-Moose time!
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    Re: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick available for US$79

    NCS Getting started - https://developer.movidius.com/getting-started

    1. You will need the following - An x86_64 computer running Ubuntu 16.04

    So not for Windows folks unless there's an Ubuntu VM handy.
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    Re: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick available for US$79

    does anyone actually know what this thing does in plain English?
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    Re: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick available for US$79

    Quote Originally Posted by Unique View Post
    does anyone actually know what this thing does in plain English?
    Puts a framework in place to allow the creation of skynet
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