[narrator]

I have tried a lot of different LLMs and Gemma3:27b on a 48gb+ Macbook is probably the best for analyzing diaries and personal stuff you don't want to share with the cloud. The China models are comically bad with life advice. For example, I asked Deepseek to read my diaries and talk to me about my life goals and it told me in a very Confucian manner what the proper relationships in my life were for my stage of life and station in society. Gemma is much more western.

[solardev]

Lol, that's actually kinda cool. Did you get any interesting Eastern responses to your diary entries?

I'm imagining something like...

> Dear diary, I got bullied again today, and the bread was stale in my PB&J :(

>> My son, remember this: The one who mocks others wounds his own virtue. The one who suffers mockery must guard his heart. To endure without hatred is strength; to strike without cause is disgrace. The noble one corrects himself first, then the world will follow.

[elorant]

Chinese models are also awful with translations. Even the Deepseek R1 model performs worse than Mistral small.

[punitvthakkar]

That is fascinating. One insight I read about LLMs is that they do represent a world-view of the people who train it, and hence the country that ships the dominant LLM technology can spread widely its world-view on others. Your experience seems to validate that insight.