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Maarten Grootendorst presents a visual, accessible guide to quantization for LLMs, covering FP32/FP16/BF16, INT8, symmetric and asymmetric quantization, and both post-training and quantization-aware training. The piece also explores advanced topics like GPTQ and GGUF, 1-bit BitNet and 1.58-bit quantization, including memory and accuracy trade-offs with diagrams and examples.

FFmpeg 101 offers a practical primer on FFmpeg's architecture, listing core tools and libraries, and provides end-to-end sample code to demux, discover codecs, configure decoders, and decode video frames. It includes build steps with Meson and Ninja, and a runnable example that prints stream metadata and decodes frames from a sample file. This is valuable for developers integrating multimedia processing into apps or SMB IT teams building internal media workflows.