Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08
VRAM Guide — Will It Fit?
A local-LLM memory planner that estimates whether a model and quantisation will fit on a chosen GPU.
Why it surfacedPick from a long list of models, GPUs, quantisations, runtimes, and context lengths to see weights, KV-cache use, runtime overhead, maximum context, and expected tokens per second. Its unusually concrete answer—Llama 3.1 8B at Q4_K_M uses 6.4 GB of a 24 GB RTX 4090—makes a notoriously fuzzy hardware question immediately actionable.
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The Fax Is Thinking
August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.