diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 603874e..6c7b69a 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,44 +1 @@
-
-.git
 .gitignore
-.github
-.venv
-__pycache__
-*.pyc
-*.pyo
-*.pyd
-*.egg-info
-.pytest_cache
-.ruff_cache
-dist/
-build/
-*.egg
-node_modules
-frontend/node_modules
-frontend/dist
-frontend/.vite
-*.npm-cache
-.npmignore
-*.o
-*.a
-*.so
-*.dylib
-quadtrix.exe
-quadtrix
-build/
-cmake-build-*/
-.vscode
-*.bin
-*.pt
-*.gguf
-*.safetensors
-engine/best_model.pt
-engine/logs/
-engine/fineweb_30mb.txt
-data/input.txt
-.DS_Store
-Thumbs.db
-*.swp
-*.swo
-.idea
-docker-compose.override.yml
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82e644e..0dfdee5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,3 +14,46 @@ engine/fine-tune/input.txt
 *best_model.pt
 *.pt
 *exe
+.git
+.gitignore
+.github
+.venv
+__pycache__
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+*.pyd
+*.egg-info
+.pytest_cache
+.ruff_cache
+dist/
+build/
+*.egg
+node_modules
+frontend/node_modules
+frontend/dist
+frontend/.vite
+*.npm-cache
+.npmignore
+*.o
+*.a
+*.so
+*.dylib
+quadtrix.exe
+quadtrix
+build/
+cmake-build-*/
+.vscode
+*.bin
+*.pt
+*.gguf
+*.safetensors
+engine/best_model.pt
+engine/logs/
+engine/fineweb_30mb.txt
+data/input.txt
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+*.swp
+*.swo
+.idea
+docker-compose.override.yml
diff --git a/config/config.h b/config/config.h
index 844efeb..e917c38 100644
--- a/config/config.h
+++ b/config/config.h
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 #pragma once
 #include <string>
+
 static const std::string DEFAULT_CLEANED_PATH = "data/input.txt";
 static const std::string DATA_PATH_ENV_VAR = "GPT_DATA_PATH";
 static const unsigned int SEED = 1337;
-static const double TRAIN_SPLIT = 0.9; // 90 % train, 10 % val
-static const int BATCH_SIZE = 4;
-static const int BLOCK_SIZE = 64; // context length
-static const int MAX_ITERS = 10000;
-static const int EVAL_INTERVAL = 20;
-static const float LEARNING_RATE = 3e-4f;
-static const int EVAL_ITERS = 1;
+static const double TRAIN_SPLIT = 0.9; // 90% train, 10% val
+static const int BATCH_SIZE = 16;      
+static const int BLOCK_SIZE = 64;       // Context length
+static const int MAX_ITERS = 5000;     
+static const int EVAL_INTERVAL = 250; 
+static const float LEARNING_RATE = 5e-4f; 
+static const int EVAL_ITERS = 100;      
 static const int N_EMBD = 128;
 static const int N_HEAD = 4;
 static const int N_LAYER = 4;
-static const float DROPOUT = 0.2f; // applied during training only
+static const float DROPOUT = 0.05f; 
 static const std::string BEST_MODEL_PATH = "best_model.bin";
 static const std::string MODEL_PATH_ENV_VAR = "GPT_MODEL_PATH";