Simplon Off: flipping the lights off on AI
At a Green Tech Hackathon in Zurich, three teammates and I built Simplon Off in a day - a small experiment in running right-sized, open AI models locally, on the laptop you already own.
At a Green Tech Hackathon in Zurich, three teammates and I built Simplon Off in a day - a small experiment in running right-sized, open AI models locally, on the laptop you already own.
Last week, Switzerland’s Birchgletscher collapsed and caused a major rock avalanches, altering the landscape and burying the village of Blatten. With the data of the federal Rapid Mapping service and the help of individual experts, a first open post-event elevation model was made available. I used the model to create pre- and post-event visualizations and prints at a local scale.
"Playground" by Richard Powers explores the interplay of technological ambition and environmental concerns, highlighting tensions between progress and preservation through diverse characters on a remote island.