– Image generated by Google Gemini.
2025 was a turning point for this little blog. Leaving the comfort zone of Wordpress.com was neither easy nor painless, especially when I discovered that once the site was online, Jekyll was slow, too slow to be usable.
Thankfully, Hugo saved the day, although there are still many details to be ironed out, first and foremost the website’s graphic design.
Learning a language is hard work: you have to learn vocabulary, study grammar, repeat endlessly. And then, once you know a bit of the language, you have to start reading, listening, speaking with others. In short, it’s no joke.
In the past it was even worse. We studied from massive tomes full of rules, made especially to make you hate the language. My high‑school English book dedicated fifteen pages just to the use of the definite article “the”. I never read a single line of that book.
After two long months, I was once again able to play again with LM Studio, and this post was supposed to provide a live description of the responses of some models I had just installed. However, things got out of hand when the first model I put under the magnifying glass, Microsoft’s 4-bit Phi-4, started behaving in strange ways that were worth describing in detail. From that moment on, the post you’re about to read practically wrote itself!
– Source: Markus Winkler on Unsplash.
In the previous post I introduced the LM Studio interface, then tried the default suggested model (DeepSeek 7B) with one of the example prompts.
What we really need, however, is to verify if an LLM is capable of performing those repetitive and somewhat boring tasks that increasingly fall to us and that it’s better to do on our own computer, without having to send confidential documents or documents that could contain sensitive data all over the web.1
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