Sam Rose: Quantization from the Ground Up — Interactive Essay Explaining LLM Quantization
Simon Willison Blog / Sam Rose·low signal
Sam Rose published another entry in his series of interactive essays, this time explaining how LLM quantization works from first principles. Simon Willison calls it 'spectacularly informative,' continuing Rose's streak of making complex ML infrastructure topics accessible through hands-on visualization. Directly useful for builders who want to understand the tradeoffs when running quantized models locally.