Update app.py

app.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import os
 try:
     from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
     import torch
-    TRANSFORMERS_AVAILABLE = True
+    TRANSFORMERS_AVAILABLE = False # TODO change back to true to use local llm 
 except ImportError:
     TRANSFORMERS_AVAILABLE = False
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class EventScraper:
         # Try local model first
         if TRANSFORMERS_AVAILABLE:
             try:
-                model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct"
+                model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct" # 3B is very slow on HF :(
                 self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
                 self.model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
                     model_name,