Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Food

From the wikipedia article:

“Pollan argues that the science of nutrition should not influence people’s eating habits because a full range of nutrients has yet to be identified by scientists, and claims that the more focused Americans become on nutrition, the less healthy they seem to become.”

Companies go out of business. I am not sure if any if these companies will, but it is easy to imagine the bubble bursting and only a few coming through.

With my NVidia Geforce 3070 card with 8GB of VRAM I can get 40 tokens per second on smallish models such as llama3.1 or qwen 3.8. I use it mostly for NLP processing of game server logs to create match summaries and I use whisper for audio-to-text transcription of videos.

While I do not have enough vram to put large logfiles into the LLM directly I was able to have it create a python script that generates a summary file at the end of each match. I feed the LLM the summary file and it generates color commentary that gets posted to Discord. Here is an example:

[🌟]Color Commentary: A Display of Skill on dod_napoli_b1! [📈]Multi-Player Action: On 08/05/2026 at 19:33:25, the action was intense on dod_napoli_b1, with key moments including the [Loft] capture by Inspector Lag (Allies) and [Axis Barn] capture by THE ROCK/BionicTwin (Allies). [🏆]Impact Players: Allies: Inspector Lag (Kills: 37), [415]Drago (Caps: 10). Axis: The Notorious C.U.M. (Kills: 39), [415]IronHeaD (Caps: 8).

$ollama list NAME ID SIZE MODIFIED
qwen3:8b 500a1f067a9f 5.2 GB 5 months ago
llama3.1:8b 46e0c10c039e 4.9 GB 5 months ago

$ollama run llama3.1:8b

what is the best AI model to run on an Nvidia 3070 with 8gb of vram? The best AI model to run on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 with 8 GB of VRAM depends on several factors, such as:

1. Specific task or application: Are you interested in tasks like image classification, object detection, natural language processing (NLP), or generative models?
2. Desired level of complexity: Do you want to run small, simple models or larger, more complex ones that require more computational resources?
3. Computational requirements: What’s your expected performance target? Do you need high-throughput, low-latency, or a balance between the two?

Considering these factors and the specifications of your GPU, here are some popular AI model examples suitable for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 with 8 GB VRAM:

Computer Vision:

1. YOLOv5: A lightweight yet powerful object detection model that’s well-suited for real-time applications.
2. EfficientNet-B3: A compact and efficient image classification model, part of the EfficientNet family.

Natural Language Processing (NLP):

1. BERT-base-uncased: A popular language representation model for various NLP tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and question answering.
2. RoBERTa-base: A transformer-based language model that outperforms BERT on several tasks.

Generative Models:

1. StyleGAN2: A state-of-the-art generative adversarial network (GAN) for image synthesis and manipulation.
2. DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model): A flexible and efficient generative model suitable for various image generation tasks.

Keep in mind that these models have varying computational requirements, memory footprints, and performance characteristics. You may need to experiment with different hyperparameters or architectures to find the best match for your specific needs.

To estimate which models will run smoothly on your hardware, consider the following:

• Memory usage: Make sure the model fits within your GPU’s VRAM (8 GB). Larger models might require downsampling or other memory-saving techniques.
• FLOPS (Floating-Point Operations Per Second): Estimate the computational requirements of each model. The RTX 3070 has a peak FLOPS rating of around 12 TFLOPS, but actual performance may vary depending on the specific workload.

For more detailed estimates and comparisons, I recommend exploring resources like:

• TensorFlow Model Garden: A collection of pre-trained models for various tasks.
• PyTorch Hub: A library of pre-trained models and implementations.
• NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK: Offers a range of tools, including cuDNN-accelerated deep learning primitives.

Feel free to provide more specific requirements or task details if you’d like me to help with model selection!

total duration: 13.256527877s load duration: 71.80054ms prompt eval count: 466 token(s) prompt eval duration: 62.91049ms prompt eval rate: 7407.35 tokens/s eval count: 572 token(s) eval duration: 12.889617619s eval rate: 44.38 tokens/s

This is spot on. The big question is how to pay for the additional generation and distribution capacity. Typically this demand grows slowly and is amortized over decades. Data center demand is coming very rapidly all at once and there is no guarantee these companies will even exist 5-10 years from now. All that said, if tech companies pay for improvements to generation and distribution that would be something everyone would benefit from.

I wouldn’t call Cartman gifted, but he is big boned!

There is a subtlety here that I feel like is being missed. Yes, via remote attestation, websites can require only passkeys from Google and Apple are usable. But you can still use those passkeys with Linux. It is a restriction on how you can authenticate and I can understand concerns over the lack of freedom in this area, but it is pretty far from a threat that would prevent the use of Linux.

Just to add to this, I feel like we believed war was an emergent property of civilization and with sufficient progress it could be eliminated. Evidence that war occurs in nature implies a deeper underlying impulse that cannot easily be avoided.

They may be running credit checks on customers. Also, they may need to pass this information on to a collection agency in the case of non-payment.

Don’t shit where you eat.

Web browsing and email are vectors of attack. You should not be using admin from a session where you are one click away from disaster.

This is a good place to start -> https://ssd.eff.org/

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