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+![Darknet Logo](http://pjreddie.com/media/files/darknet-black-small.png)
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+#Darknet#
+Darknet is an open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA. It is fast, easy to install, and supports CPU and GPU computation.
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+For more information see the [Darknet project website](http://pjreddie.com/darknet).